Funky Four Birthday

Good morning and welcome back to my piece of blog land. Today I'm sharing a simple design for all those men in our lives. I love creating card for the guys, but lets be honest - they may not always appreciate them.

When I make this design (and I have repeated this one a lot) I tend to make two and keep my stash healthy. I have used chocolate chip for the base and some retired Greenhouse Gala dsp. The sentiment is from Best Dad Ever and the tree from Funky Four (both retired) and I used some large silver brads from my stash to finish them off.

Thanks for looking

Funky and Bright

G'day. I hope this finds you enjoying warmer weather (if you are in Australia :) Today I'm sharing a card which I made last year and still haven't shared it with you. I case'd it from this card, which I fell in love with.

I wanted to used bold, bright colours, so melon mambo, old olive and pumpkin pie were my msin colours, I then bordered them with soft suede and matted it all onto crumb cake. The ribbon and the pearls are from Kaiser Craft. The sentiment is from 'short and sweet' and the leaves are from 'funky four'. I love using stamps in a way I wouldn't think of using them. I cropped out the images with the oval punch and matted them onto the same coloured card stock cropped from the wide oval punch. When I was placing the image panels I accidently placed them onto the same colour background as I wanted to mix it up a bit, but I think this still works.

Thanks for looking :)

JAI #132 - Sketch Challenge

Hi there! It's been a while since I joined in at Just Add Ink, but they had a great sketch, which was perfect for a male birthday card which I needed quick.

Here's the sketch:

 And here's my creation:

I loved the clean lines of the sketch and kept this one pretty simple. I used some dsp from my stash and the tree is from 'funky four', the sentiment is from 'best Dad ever', like I said a nice simple card which I love for guys.

If you have time, go past Just Add Ink and check out all the design teams fantastic creations!

Thanks for looking :)

Funky Birthday

Hi! I was going through my files and realised that I have a heap of photos going back nearly a whole year! So over the next week or so I'll share them with you :)

Here's my first one:

I love the simplicity of this card and I made a whole heap for all my male relatives for their birthdays. I found the idea from this blog. 

Thanks for looking!