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Men, so challenging!

I thought I'd better hurry and get this blogged, before I miss the challenge this week on the Alphabet Challenge Blog - it's M for Men. This was my friend Andria's last week as guest designer on the blog - well done Andria!

I hope it's ok to enter this card as I confess I didn't actually make it this week! I made it a few weeks ago for my friends dad who turned 60, but I haven't blogged it yet, so hopfully I'm not breaking any rules!

Here's my card

I couldn't think what to put on the card and after some inspiration from my MAC mates, I thought a wine bottle and glass would suit.
The problem was then that I don't actually have a stamp like that! So I asked my wonderfully talented and artistic brother if he could draw something for me (please note the praise and hopefully he'll do something for me gain sometime!!).
And after a not very good description from me, he drew exactly what I wanted!

I felt really under pressure to get it right as I only had the one image - so no mistakes! My colouring wasn't perfect, but I was happy enough with the result. I used my copics to colour it.

I printed my sentiments onto paper and cut them into strips, distressed them a bit and attached them with a staple and foam pads.

The design papers I used are from my Tim Holtz pad - a nice selection of manly colours!

A few big metal brads and the card was done.

This is the inside

It was delivered with the bottle of Moet, so I'm not sure how much attention the card got!!

I hope you like it, thanks for dropping by!

A nightmare of a day...

I've been having a horrible day today from when I got into my car to go to work, switched on the engine and you would've thought it was a washing machine full of stones!
Thankfully, where I work there is a garage and one of the mechanics was able to come out to look at it and long story short, I wasn't able to drive it.
The next thing I had to think about was getting it fixed - and I only have 3 days left on my warranty, but at least I'm 3 days on the right side of the warranty!
So, even longer story short, I'm now carless with a hire car coming (hopefully) in the next hour or so.

So please wish Bert well!

Anyway, on to a card.
This is the second card I've made for my cousin who's getting married at the end of the month.

I used the lovely sketch, that I think I might use again, from Just Magnolia.

Here's my card

I used this Tilda, who I think is meant to be a princess, but I thought she could get away with being a bride! I coloured her with my Copics.

The hearts are die cuts - a mixture of nesties and Cuttlebug. I glazed the inside of the top heart for a bit of bling! Flowers and ribbon from stash - the wee metal embellishments on the ribbon is from Stampin' Up! and the papers are Basic Grey, Sugar Rush.

And this is the inside

I also made a tag to match the card

Using the same heart dies as on the main card. I did glaze the top heart on the tag too, but not until after I took the photo.

And here's the set

Again, I made a box, but haven't taken a photo, I just added more of the same hearts onto it.

I hope you like it, thanks for dropping by!

I DO still know how to work this thing!

Hello everyone, I'm back!

I can't believe it's been 4 months since I posted anything! All I can say is that I've had the longest case of total crafters block ever! But it's slowly been coming back to me and over the last few weeks I've actually made a few cards! So, I thought I might ease myself back into the blogging world too.

And what better way than with a challenge! My friend Andria is a guest designer for the next couple of weeks on the Alphabet challenge blog, so I thought I'd show my support and enter it this week. The challenge is L for lace.

My cousin is getting married at the end of the month and lace and weddings are meant to be together!

So here's my card

I used the gorgeous stamp from the greeting farm coloured with copics.

Another challenge for me was colouring the darker skin tone, I'm afraid I'm not used to doing that so I'll have to practise a bit more.

I'm afraid I have no idea what brand the papers are - I've had them for ages and there was no name written on them.

This is the inside, complete with a little pocket for the gift (money!)

I have since made a box to go along with it, but haven't taken a picture of it.

I hope you like it, thanks for dropping by!