Male Card and A Challenge Card

Had a rush order today for an Male 18th Birthday card.

This is what I came up with( find it so hard to do male cards, The lack of being able to put pretty embellies onto them)

 For the papers I had a Pay around with Craft Artist

 As you can see the bottle pops out from the card.

I do love these fold open drop down cards

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Challenge Card

For my second card I used a free image from

ANNE BODIL GURSLI Blog

Coloured with pro markers.

 The papers are from Bearly mine CDs.

The mat was also done on the pc, flowers are from my stash.
The sentiment is from Create with TLC

 Had a play in Craft Artist to make the insert

I have entered my second card into these challenges

Thanks for looking

Whoopsi Daisy

Totally Gorjuss

The Craft pad

  7 Kids College Fund

Bearly Mine

Challenge card

This is my card for the a few challenge blog

The backing papers are from bearly mine and the image I have used is FAITH and she has been coloured in using pro markers.
The backing papers are from a Bearly Mine CD

The Doily is from my stash and the flowers were a birthday gift from a crafting friend

For the insert I took the same papers into craft Artist and added the flowers and tag 

Thanks for looking
I have entered this into the following challenges.
Sugar bowl
Totally Gorjuss
Whoopsi Daisy

Winter Birthday

For the challenge on pollycraft blog it is to make a winter birthday card .
I have used one of their digi stamps coloured with promarkers, I have been paper pleating again for this card, This i backed onto card and added a large bow.
The papers are from a Bearly Mine CD, Love the shades of blue on these close up view of the pleating

I then took the papers into the centre and added a mat cut on my cricut

thanks for popping by

In Memory of Layton Digi stamp set

Jak Heath has lost a much beloved great Nephew to meningitis, my heart goes out to his dear parent and the family at this sad time.
in memory of Layton, Jak has gotten together with two artists and they have donated two lovely digi stamps, to help raise funds for a vaccine campaign.
you can find out detail HERE for both of these stamps it will only cost you £4 not very much, you get to play with two lovely designs and at the same time raise lots of money for a very worthy cause.
Here are two cards that I have made using the stamp set.

I have used scrapbook papers from a my minds eye stack

The insert for this card came from Bearly Mine designs- Designer Inserts Extreme CD

live crafting

We have had another evening of live crafting on the crafters companion forum, this is the card we have made
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Ruler
Pencil
Craft knife
12x12 card for base
Contrasting card if you are going to mat your pattern paper
2 A4 pattern papers
TopperEmbellishments

Step 1
Cut your mat or 1st pattern paper if not mating to 3 3/4 inches x 5 1/4 inches, make two, also cut a strip 1 ¾ x5 ¼ inches
Step 2
Cut second pattern paper to 3 ¾ x 2 ¼ inches.
Then cut 6 pieces measuring 1 ¾ x 1 ¼,
Then 1 more at 1 ¾ x 2 ¼

Card Base
Step 1
Take your 12x12 card and cut it so that it is 12 x 5 ½ wide.
Take your ruler and make small marks in pencil at both top and bottom of this strip at 4 inches 8 inches and 10 inches, score down these lines, so that it looks like this

Step 2
On the first score line (4 inch line) make a small mark at 1 ½ inches from the top, also at 1 ½ inches from the bottom, them go to the last score line (10 inch line) and do the same here.
Cut with a craft knife, join using these marks as guides on the long side from 4 inch score to 10 inch score, at the top and bottom
See photo

Step 3
So again take your ruler and make small marks at the top and bottom at 6 inches.
Now we are going to make more score marks but only on the top and bottom 1½-inch margins at 6 inches, so score from your small mark to the cut line on the top then again on the bottom

Step 4
Crease the folds so that the card look like this, it is a bit fiddly so look at photos

Step 5
Taking pattern paper 1 stick the one of the large pattern papers to the front, and the second large one to the inside
Take the last of paper 1 and stick on other end. As in photos

Step 6
Take all your pattern papers 2 and stick them to the centre panels of the card.
Like this

This is the base card finished, sorry for all the cutting out but worth it I think.Now go and play, add your topper and embellishments, and see you later when you post your finished card

Here is mine finished

And open

papers..bearly mine designs, designer extreme Vol2

image.. charmed cards digi download

flowers.. fred she said

My Sketch challenge # 15

Here is this weeks sketch, If anyone would like to join in with the challenge please do, just leave a comment and I would love to come see your work, if you would like to see what the girls on crafters companion forum have done using my sketches please look HERE I love this cuttlebug embossing folder, all it needed was some chalk to bring out the leaves, the sentiment was done on the PC

AS you can see I am still taking the design into the centre of the cards

ingredients

Image .. digital oasis download

paper.. bearly mine CD

colouring.. pro markers.

inside mat.. Funky Fairys

cuttlebug enbossing folder