Sheep are not Male.....however...........

I still keep using this image for Male cards. I just like it, and don't think it's particularly girly...though would work as well of course. I think sunflowers are also a nice butch manly man flower too. At least that's what I'm hoping the 16yr old recipient of this card will think lol. 

This is to celebrate the Baptism of the son of a friend. Congratulations Joseph. 

The image is of course by the wonderful Mo Manning Coloured with good old Promarkers, the flowers and cute little bumbles are picked out with sakura glaze pens. 

My Flowers are from an arrangement I  dismantled - is that upcycling or re-cycling I'm never quite sure lol  

I'm entering this into the challenge over at Crafty Sentiments  

which this time is to make a card/project for a Male 

WOYWW 189

 It's been a good long while since I played along with WOYWW over at Stamping Ground, but I wanted to show of a new tool given to us (my daughter and myself) by a dear friend. My crafting is done from my bed for the past couple of years, and I'm forever losing just the very thing I wanted, off the side of the bed, or in the bedclothes lol. The Buddy Board has all these lovely strong bungees that fit over the toothed edge, and nothing, just nothing can escape from you.

It was wonderful to be able to get out all the colours I need, and not have to put them away when I'd had enough...only to try and remember which colours I was using when I feel up to doing a little more. It can just stay on the board until all is completed......an absolute little wonder, and such a clever idea. The work surface of the board is A4. You can find it HERE (in UK at least), there is a video link with it.

Image is a little darling by Mo Manning, pencils are mixture of Lyra and prismcolor - oh and an undercoat of promarkers (I'd not put much pencil on him yet)...I always have to lay down a light colour in promarker, then add pencil, otherwise I feel overwhelmed by all the white. Yes, I know I sound barmy, but so it is.

Thanks House Mouse, and Thanks again

A couple of Thank You cards as you can see, using House Mouse. These are part of a decoupage collection. In both cases I've used section 2 of the decoupage pages, leaving the rest to actually turn into decoupage and use on other cards....I like to get the most out of my little housie mousies. 

On this first card I coloured my background with chalks, just a random dusting. It looks better in person than in the pic. In both cards my paper is digital from Bearly Mine Designs, the ribbon binding and yellow striped button is ribbon girl, the flower prima (coloured with promarkers) and the beautiful pins are from Linda at Creative Harmony. Except for the flower, stamp and Linda's pins, nothing I've used is less than a year old, and some much, much older. I'm getting quite good at shopping my stash.

I've used a new technique on the inside. I coloured my stamp with promarkers, then damped the page with a baby wipe. That reactivated the promarkers to produce a 'distressed' looking image. I quite like the effect and think I'll have another play using more than one colour on the stamp. Sorry, I can't remember where in blogland I saw this....so if it was you, please let me know and I'll credit you for it.

I'd like to enter this for

 Chalk N Stock - Lets Play Bingo 

 Buttons, Ribbon, Chalk, Adhesive, Markers 

 I'm entering this second card for the challenge at 

House-Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge -Double Trouble. 

Get Well cuddles

A card I made for a little girl with chicken pox, caught from her brother, his card is a few posts down lol. A Mo's DP image...as if you couldn't guess, she's called 'Your my best'. She is coloured with promarkers, and lyca pencils. My stacked up prima flowers are coloured with two shades of promarker, and I've outlined all edges with them too. My sentiment is handwritten with Sakura gel pen. The paper is glittered, get back to you with make, and button from stash and coloured with promarker...busy little pens.  

I'm entering this for 

Crafts & Me Challenge - Use A digi

Forget you're ill

A get well card for a five year old with chicken pox, poor boy. I'm hoping this will cheer him up a little, he likes cars. The image is Mo's, and he didn't originally have curly hair, so hope Mo doesn't mind me taking liberties with my colouring pencils. It means he's ended up with big hair, hope his mom likes the 80's look lol. 

He's coloured mostly with ProMarkers, but Lyca pencils for the hair and the bumper and go faster stripe. I tired to make them look metalic as per the tutorial on Dorcas' Blog. I only had the dark & light cool grey so had to do my best with those. I'm not too displeased, but want my greys to do it properly lol. 

My greeting is stamped, using a frame stamp and separate get well. They are both stamped in versamagic chalk, and the card outlined in the same chalk. 

My cardstock is from the £10 Mystery Parcel I received from Sarah Wright today. It's a lovely pearl, shiny and embossed. The Mystery Parcel is well worth the money, I had beautiful double sided patterned A4 cardstock, A4, A5 & 8x8 double sided papers....all lovely. Stamp sets, rub on, sticker, including 3d Stickers, ribbon, raffia, velvet rik-rak. I am so pleased with everything.....such a lot of fun to unpack it all. 

Recipe...

Image Boy in Car - Mo's Digital Pencil

Background Image - Digi Sparkle

Cardstock, Ribbon & frame stamp - Sarah Wright
Get Well Stamp - KaiserCraft mini sentiments

Die Cut's - Spellbinders

Colourants - Promarkers, Lyca Pencils, Versamagic Chalk. 

Yellow Button - The Ribbon Girl

Rest from stash. 

I'd like to enter this for 

Chalk N Stock - Get Well 

I won Honorable Mention with Chalk & Stock Heyyyy!!

On Top Of The World

This is for one of two friends who were Baptised last weekend. This is for a man, so I held off on the embellishments, though managed to get in a few gems, lace and ribbons lol. This is a Mo's Digital Image, coloured with ProMarkers - wish it fitted with the latest DP2 challenge. My papers are Kay & Co and I did my background in the style of Dorcas, though hers are cleverer and stitched with a real sewing machine...mine are 'stitched' with a sakura pen. I glued a couple of buttons together (top one is Ribbon Girl) as my sun and added ribbons as sun rays. My lace 'grass' is crocheted by little me. 

I'm entering this for 

Bearly Mine Challenge #37 - Animal Kingdom.