A Few for the Men...

Well I thought it was about time I updated my blog, yes I have been making cards but most of the time have not taken any photo's of them. Here are a few cards that I've made for the men..I always find these the most difficult to do. 

I loved making this card, it  takes quite a long time to make, I cut the Jake on my blackcat cougar, then glittered the letters. The card and paper were from my stash. The  Del Boy & Rodney decoupage was printed out on glossy photo paper from a CD by Card Creations, the main image was also decoupaged from a La Pashe CD.  

          

A Stepper card can't remember where I got the images from think they were from some freebie clip art site.

I think this image is off a CD I bought years ago, it decoupages up really well and I  love using it not just for men's cards but for any celebration

I made the background from various images using CAP2, after printing I went around the edges with a distress ink  I think the steampunk lady was a digi stamp I bought from Kenny K, I don't do a lot of digi colouring in, but I did this one using promarkers. Think I'd better practice more...

Although it doesn't show up much in this photo, this is decoupaged with quite a few layers. The image was printed onto photo paper from a CD by LaPashe. Perfect for the man who likes to tinker with cars.

  

Another decoupage, I think this was printed from a La Pashe CD, perfect for the bus enthusiast 

Another decoupage from a Remember When Sheet

A dangly decoupaged rugby player from a La Pashe sheet..I cut an aperture into the card made up the front view of the player, then did the rear view, inserted a thread between the from and back and  stuck them together  so the would dangle on the card. Covered the inside of the card with silver miri board, so the back was reflected in it. If you look closely you can see the reflection in the back. 

Disco Diva

A bit of a fun card this one. As soon as I saw this flippin woman I knew exactly who I was going to make a card for using it. Our friend Bev, we met her & her husband in a bar on top of a mountain in Austria, during a snow storm, not much skiing took place that afternoon but we found a friendship that has lasted about 15 years. The first time we went to a round table ladies night with them she wore a dress just like this. The image so reminds me of her except for the ponytail..she's always the life and soul of the party. She loved it and immediately saw the resemblance.

The decoupage sheet is from La Pashe Flippin Women, although it doesn't show too well I used black and crystal glitter on each fringe of the dress. The disco ball was also glittered, I found the ball and the background on google images.

I really can't get used to this new blogger, images won't go where I want them to, and can anyone tell me where the spell checker has gone, 'cos I can't find it anymore, preview is nothing like what appears on the page either, I'll try again but think I'll have to switch back to the old one...

Thanks everyone for popping by and for taking the time to leave your comments, I really appreciate them

Another one a bit different for me and I won some candy..

Hi everyone, I know it's been a while since I last posted anything, although I have been trying to keep up with everyone's blogs,.... if I haven't visited you yet I am catching up  slowly and I'll get there soon...

 I made this for  Olivia, who loves drawing Manga characters, but as Ididn't have any Manga images I used the decoupage from a Rock Hard Fairies sheet, added a touch of silver stickles here 'n there and star dust on her wings. Printed the red sun burst and the greeting on photo paper, then used spray and sparkle over the greeting. Backing paper, black card and mirri paper all from stash. Coloured the little flower gems with permanent markers as I didn't have any black ones.

I know... I really should learn how to take a photo without making it look all wonky.

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Hope you like it, Livvy did.

While I was trying to catch up I visited Jackie's blog Day's in the Life of...who is part of the LaPashe DT, saw there was a candy on offer, I quickly put my name down on Sunday, the draw was Monday and yippee I won it. Thank you so much Jackie and Jak. If you haven't visited Jackie before pop along to her blog to see her lovely cards and have a laugh at her posts about her granddaughter.
I received my candy today from Jak the Designer, you've probably all visited Jaks blog Crafters Kitchen  but if you haven't it's a must see, beautiful cards and lots of free downloads too, fabulous..and she is showcasing  some cards made with the new soon to be released sheets. I bought quite a few of the Remember when Christmas series last year, and love them now I can make more for this year, plus I won the whole set of the new Flippin Xmas, can't wait to have a play, if you want to have a chance of winning them Karen another DT member is offering candy till Sunday..I feel I'd be too greedy  to go and enter, but why don't you go and see if you will be as lucky as I was.

                Thanks for popping by..I really appreciate it..

Hi everyone, a card and a few thank you's..

Well, I've just about finished catching up with all the blogs I follow... I hope....I am amazed at all the beautiful cards you make, it takes me forever to get to see them all and leave comments, so if I've missed anyone out, sorry. I haven't had much time to keep up with my commenting recently, so I have to read through all the posts comments just to see if I've already left one, and when some have hundreds of comments ...it takes me forever,.... if anyone know a quicker way of checking it out, please let me know I would be so grateful. The garden has taken over recently, I've nearly finished all the planting, digging, and cutting back, I've only got a bit more jet washing of the paving, then I can start enjoying it, that's if the weather gets better. Have been so lazy, instead of making cards in the evenings, I've just sat a watched TV, just not used to all that gardening, I've also got a pain in the neck (no not my hubby) so I can't sit at the PC or my laptop very long either, don't like this getting old....

A couple of Lovely Awards.... it's taken me a while to post about these.....

Nicola kindly gave me the Blog support award and Sassy the lemonade stand award, thank you ladies I appreciated them so very much. Most of you will already be followers of these two very talented ladies, but if you haven't visited their blogs recently please go and check them out, you won't be sorry, they are both amazing.

As I've already passed on the lemonade stand award and as I truly appreciate everyone who visits and leaves me such lovely comments I'm passing these onto all my blogging friends, so if any of you would like to accept theses awards with appreciation and love from me, please take them for your blog.

Here's a card I made very quickly a couple of months ago, I got a phone call from my nephew Joe to say he'd passed his driving test, he never told anyone he was taking it and passed first time. I was seeing him the next day so had to make a quicky card. I printed the words directly to the card using GCF, decoupage the car which was a La Pashe sheet, also decoupaged the torn L plate. And if you're wondering what the next big challenge is....inside it said .....paying for the insurance....

Would love to know what you think....

Joe's 21st

I find cards for men difficult at the best of times, and this one was for one of my very special nephews, Joe was 21 back in April, and I wanted something different for him, this is what I came up with, finished it at the last minute, and had to give it to him that evening, I've only just managed to borrow it back to get a photo of it.

The front.....
As a youngster Joe loved the Star Wars Movies, Tony & I used to take him to the West End to see the films when they were released, so I put a photo of him as a child into the banner as a character from Starwars. He's just bought himself a new Mini, so I used an online graphics program and put his photo on one, printed it off a few times then decoupaged it, with quite a lot of layers. All I needed was a background so put another photo of him on a graffiti wall. Mated and layered it all onto silver and black miri card.

At the moment Joe works in a pub and I need something for the inside of the card, I had two images in mind, but I couldn't decide which one to use, so I used both of them.

I decoupaged a barmaid from a sheet I had and on the other side I used one of the Flippin Men sitting on a beer barrel, which you could spin around to see his back.

I didn't like the checked cap on the man so coloured it using a felt tip. This was a big card, A3 folded, just trimmed down on the length a bit. Weighed a ton, good job I didn't have to post it.

Would love to know what you think...

A couple for the men

Well what can I say about cards for men....not a lot...here are a few from La Pashe sheets.

This was for a friend who lovingly restored a 1930's AC car, his was white though with red leather interior.

For my brother in law,

who whenever you phone, is always in the bath!! he doesn't drink though.

Comments always appreciated...

A few more Christmas cards

La Pashe again,

The same but different

DON'T LOOK AT THE NEXT CARD IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY SWEAR WORDS...

Found the image on the web,

but I knew my nephew would like it....

Comments always appreciated.....

A couple of A4 Xmas cards

Thought I'd show you a few more, from La Pashe,

I made the decoupage up in the normal way, but as I was going to use both of the sheets on A4 cards, I thought they needed to be a bit longer, so I roughly tore pieces of white card, and overlapped them onto the bottom of the decoupage backing sheet. I then added Snow Writer roughly over the white card and to the bottom of the sheets for a bit of dimension and as I can't seem to do Christmas without a bit of bling, I added Glamour Dust over the Snow Writer.

For the carol singers card I also added a touch of Snow Writer and glitter onto the trees, lantern, house sign etc. I used dark green Flower Soft on the wreath and swag, decorated them with Xmas Red Stickles for the berry's and the bows, also added a blobs of Silver Stickles and a few dabs of Glamour Dust. The brass door furniture and lanterns glows were highlighted with a Secura Stardust clear pen. It was matted onto silver miri card.

For the shop window I used Snow Writer and Glamour Dust on on the snow. Matted it onto a dark green card, then onto silver miri card, and finally onto the dark green card again.

Once mounted both were added to A4 cards which I bought from C&C. The greetings for both were made in Design Master, then cut with Robo from sparkly silver paper and dark purple miri card.

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

Rembember When...Mum

I first saw these Remember When Christmas sheets at Ally Pally and thought wow..so I bought a set of each, then I saw them on C&C, they were much cheaper on there so I got another set. I like to make my close family special cards so decided to use these sheets for them. I liked the tree sheets, made them up and showed Tony, he thought the tree was great but said he didn't like the background he suggested I cut the tree out and use it in front of the curtains from another sheet, so that's what I did.

Problem was I only had 2 sets of each and I wanted to make 3 cards similar, as I wanted to use the images for my sisters cards. Well Dawn came to my rescue, I swapped some of my sheets with her so I got another 2 pairs of curtains and another tree, she got a snowman, a fireplace and a shop, we shared out the kids, fair deal I thought.. as one of the cards was going to be for her anyway.

So here is the card I made for my Mum, the decoupage is A5 size but as I used 2 sheets it was longer and wouldn't fit onto a folded A4 card....I had to make a larger card.

I mounted the decoupage onto some red miri paper, then onto some silver holographic card, this was then mounted onto a holly embossed red card. I went down to craft creations and bought some A3 stardream opal (whitish)card and cut it to size. I used stardust stickles on the snow, the snowman and the tree, red and silver stickles on the tree decorations. I cut the Merry Christmas on Robo, using a silver sparkly wrapping paper and mounted it on to a mat cut from red miri paper, then added a couple of peel offs along the sides.

Once again the colours in my photo aren't quite right white is not white, red too red, I think I need a new camera, Santa???

Mum loves it, she even took a plate off a stand and put the card on it.

What do you think?

On the Loo..Flippin Men

Well I've nearly finished the Christmas cards, thank goodness for that. So now, I should be able to post some cards on here. Mind you I was in so much of a rush to send them out that I forgot to take photo's of some of them, and I think I forgot to put names on some too, Doh...

But for now here's a man card...made for my sisters partner.






I love the image on this one, so easy to cut out. My great nephew who is 3 wanted to keep it, it kept him in fits of laughter for ages, he kept opening the card and cracked up as he could see a bum, he cried when he couldn't take it home, he wanted to keep it....


The sheet was from the La Pashe Flippin Men range, I bought the large white aperture card and the flippin men sheets from the Imag-e-nation shop.

When made up the decoupage is huge, A5 size. I used the big kick to embossed some brown card, to make it look a bit likes tiles. Made the greetings with my Robo, didn't add too much to the card as I didn't want it too fussy.

I would love you to leave some comments if you have time...

Birthday Card for George...

Made this for my Uncle using one of the La Pashe Remember When decoupage sheet, thought it might bring back some memories for him as he is 86, and still wears a flat cap in the winter. It's the first time I've used the La Pashe sheets and I must say they are great, they have so much depth and allow you to position the characters wherever you want them.




Used an A3 card in Maroon, folded to A4, full height but I adjusted the width to suit. The decoupaged image was matted onto a beige/brown distressed paper then mounted onto the card. I made up the sentiment plaque using my photo editing program, printed it, then matted it onto the same paper I used for matting the image. Attached it to mat with brads. I got the memories ribbon as a free download from a scrapbooking site, adjusted the size to fit the card printed it and attached it along the bottom of the card with foam pads.


I felt there was something missing on the card, so just before I gave my Uncle the card I decided to edge it with a gold Pen Touch metallic pen, I love this pen, the gold is well...sooo gold...bought both the gold and the silver pens at Alley Pally last weekend from Stephanie, who demonstrated how to cut a slit in the nib of the fatter ones so it edges card perfectly. I didn't have time to take another photo so you can't see the gold, but it finished the card nicely.

I had a bit of a problem with the insert, as I've only got an A4 printer, I tried folding the A3 sheet in half to print out each side separately but my printer didn't like it, kept squiffing the paper as it fed in, so I had to print on 2 A4 sheets and stick them together, I must try and figure out a way to print on A3 paper as I'm making some A4 cards for Christmas, might try sticking the fold together temporarily..

If anyone has any tips for printing on A3 paper using an A4 printer, please let me know.

Hope you like it, he did...

I would love you to leave some comments.. if you have time