Another 'MAN' card!

 

Hi again

The other day I bought a set of the new Papermania Nostalgia car stamps.  If you're a member of the Docraft forum you may have seen the thread about them, and be aware that there was a problem with the mini cooper in the set.  Anyway, my main reason for buying them was the vintage car, so having discovered that I had one of the faulty sets I took it back and swapped it for a set by Sam Poole for Creative Expressions  which included this image, which I actually like even better.  I've come to the conclusion that one of the reasons I usually struggle with men's cards is that I try to put too much on them, so this time I decided right at the start to keep it simple and this one came together really quickly - result!  I stamped the image with a dark brown ink and decided that it looked a bit stark on basic white, so stamped a  part of a scroll stamp around the edges, and then smudged it with my finger to create a more 'vintage' frame.  The cogs are a BIGZ die which I love for men's cards.  I crackle glazed one of them to add a bit of texture, and added some eyelets with the aid of my crop-a-dile to the other one.  I really like this tool as it makes it just so easy to fix eyelets in place - so much so, that I added some more to the corners of the brown card which I embossed in the Big Shot (sorry can't remember whose embossing folder it is).  The birthday sentiment was in my stash, and I added the 'wishes' whose letters were stamped individually, and then given the same 'smudge' treatment as the frame.  I think that about sums it up.

As always, I hope you like it, and thanks for visiting.

Judi x

Something for the Gents!

Evenin' all

Todays card uses a beautiful vintage car stamp from Wild Rose Studio.   It's quite a large stamp, so I've used a 5 x 7 card for a change - oh boy, do I find it hard to get away from the squares, lol.  Once again I decided to make my own background papers using distress inks, this time in green, although it looks more brown on my monitor.  The stamps I used in the background are all about travel, although I can't remember at the moment, whose make they are.  The 'Not over the hill' sentiment is a stamp from a Kanban set, and then other than that, with it being a card aimed at the male species, I decided to keep it simple - they just can't cope with anything else, lol.

Hope you like it.

Judi xx

Happy Anniversary

Hi all,

Today I'd like to share a card that I made for my hubby.  It was our 12th Anniversary last Thursday, not to mention Paul's 50th birthday - I married him on his birthday so that he couldn't forget our anniversary, lol.  As you all know, men's cards are notoriously difficult to make, and I struggled with this one and his birthday card, but he seemed pleased, so that's the main thing.  

Anyway, the image is a digi from Bizzy Becs, I loved it the minute I saw it, and it seemed to fit the bill here.  Papers are Basic Grey (I think!!!)  Image was coloured with copics, and the sentiment was computer generated.   The hearts were cut with Nesties, and then I added a few little dots of the matching papers to add a bit of extra interest.  Hope you like it.

Judi x

Football Mad!

Hi everyone

Today I'd like to show you a card that I made for a 30th birthday.  The guy it's for is football mad, so I thought this image from Mo Manning would be perfect.

As always, I'd love to hear what you think.

Judi x

Card No - 094

Hi again

Today's card is one of Kenny K's saucy little numbers - don't you just love these for Christmas cards for the guys? I didn't really know how I wanted to present this image when I started out, and certainly didn't visualise putting a flower on the card, as obviously it's aimed at a man, but I think it works - let me know what you think.

Sorry this is brief, but it's my daughter's wedding tomorrow, and I've still loads to do!  

Have a great weekend.

Judi x

60 Today!

Hi there peeps

I don’t think I’ve shown you this card before as I made it just before I went to Spain in September, for my friend to give her husband on his 60th birthday.  It’s an 8 x 8 card – not done many of these, but as it was a decoupage image I needed something bigger than my usual 6 x 6.   Other than a bit of matting and layering, I made a little pair of metal rimmed glasses to make it look like Dave (her husband), and some flower soft to give a bit of texture to the 'bowling green', and that's about it.  Ooops! Nearly forgot as I made it such a long time ago - the background red paper was originally plain, but I splodged some glue on it, and had to try and cover it up, so after a bit of cussing I thought I'd try a stamping something small all over the visible areas with Versamark and it worked - phew!  What a relief, lol.  I then covered up another little glue mark by adding some peel offs all the way around the edge, and voila, one card rescued.  Note to self:  Don't be over enthusiastic with the glue, lol.

Hope you like it.

Judi x

60th Birthday

Hi there,

I forgot to say on my last post, that you lot all had me well and truly fooled – I thought it was only me that struggled to get a card to come together, and that you all put yours together in moments – seems from all your comments that I was wrong, so at least when I struggle with the next one, I’ll be able to tell myself that I’m not alone, lol.

Anyway, today’s card is one I’ve made for a very good friend’s 60th birthday later this month, we’ll be back in Spain, so I thought I’d better get it ready beforehand.
The image, ‘Happy Birthday’, and ‘not over the hill….’ sentiment, are from a new set of Kanban stamps which arrived in the post yesterday.  The papers are Basic Grey, but I can’t remember which set, and it’s all just simply matted onto black cardstock. 

As always, I hope you approve, and thanks for taking the time to visit.

Hugs

Judi.

Sailing

Hi everyone, hope you all had a nice weekend.

Today I'd like to show you a card which a friend asked me to make for Father's Day.  She asked for a boat, or yacht, hopefully this will suit.

The papers are from the Nitwits 'Sandcastle' collection.  The yacht has been coloured with Copics.  I added a little extra interest using one of the Martha Stewart punches.  The sentiment was computer generated, and then cut out with my recent acquisition of the star Nesties, and that's about it really simple, but hopefully it works?

Thanks for looking, and to all of those who take the time to leave a comment.

Hugs

Judi x

Rugby Man

O.K. so I've made cards for football fans, fishermen, and DIYers, so today it's one for the Rugby fans.  As yet, they don't appear to have released the Flippin' Men in all their different guises, so I had to resort to decoupage for this one.  It's quite a big picture, which meant I had to use an A5 card which I'm not usually terribly comfortable with, and with it being a man's card I wanted to keep it fairly simple, so used only one patterned paper, and just did lots of matting and layering.  I distressed the surround of the white mat, in line with the grubby rugby kit, did a bit of faux stitching, and that's about it really.  The darkest mat is actually a very dark green to match with the stripey paper, and not black, as it appears on my screen.

Do let me know what you think, if you have the time, and inclination.

Judi xx

Silver surfing!

Hi peeps

The card I have to show you today is for the 80 year old gentleman that I made the ballroom dancing card for a few days ago.  His daughter tells me that he's into his dancing, and computers, not bad at 80, eh?  Anyway, I looked around but couldn't really find any stamps of an elderly chap with a computer, except this one from Jolly Nation, however, not thinking it's something I'll use very often, I decided against buying the stamp, and bought a sheet of decoupage instead.  Only problem with that, as I realised when it arrived, was that the guy's hair was blonde!!  How many guys of 80 do you know with blonde hair???  So, I set to work with my Copics, and I think I've made him passably silver now?

The papers are once again from Summer's FREE download - Happy Father's Day set, which I love.  They really are versatile for male cards.  Sentiment was computer generated, and then mounted on a couple of layers cut with nesties.  Corner card candy, made by yours truly.

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Judi xx

Chaz - 8 Today

Evening all,

Sorry about this, but the men's cards are truly in demand at the moment.  This time it's a request for an 8 year old's birthday.  The lady was VERY specific about what she wanted, it had to be a boy playing football, and wearing a yellow shirt, with green collar and a green stripe on the sleeve, with a No. 3 on it.  The shorts were to be green, but she didn't mention the socks or hair colour, so I had to go back to her and check on those!!  Having stamped up the image, I realised there was no way I could put a No. 3 on the shirt, as his arm is in the way, and, oh, NO!!  Horror of horrors, there was a No. 5 on the shorts!!!  Having sat down and thought about it, I decided the only way I could get around it, was to scan the image, (which I'd already started to colour), then put a white patch on the shorts to cover up the No.5, and then hopefully type in a No. 3 over the top. Having done all this, I'm pleased to report, that it worked a treat, and with a bit of paper piecing, I didn't even have to re-colour the original image.  Hopefully you can just about see the No. 3 on the shorts????

I then went through my stash to find suitable papers, but the green and yellow combo, was WAY too bright, so I eventually settled for stamping my own football background, and then just adding a little yellow trim, here and there to bring it all together.  I hope it works for you guys, and most importantly for the lady who requested it!!!!!!

Hugs

Judi x

Fishin' you a 'Happy Father's Day'

Hi again

Todays effort is yet another man's card.  The stamped image is from a Papermania set, which considering they're so cheap, seem to stamp really well, and are far more effective once coloured than I thought they were going to be.  The papers, are again from the Happy Father's Day set that I used the other day.  I love these papers and the colours are so masculine.  The star and mat that the fisherman is mounted on, are both cut with nesties.  The corners are die cuts, but I can't remember whose, sorry!!  I wanted to add a little colour to the mat, so decided to do some stitching with a piece of string that I dyed with my copics to match the colour scheme.  I was a bit nervous about doing this, as the string was so thick I had to pre-punch the holes, and was worried in case I didn't get it straight, but it turned out OK, and I'm quite pleased with the effect.  Both sentiments were computer generated.  Hope you have time to leave me a comment.

Hugs

Judi x

Handy Man

Hi again, peeps

Continuing with my Father's Day projects, I would like to show this one to you today.  The image is a stamp from Papermania.  Background papers are FREEBIES from Summer Driggs called Father's Day!!!  (Thanks so much for your generosity Summer).  Mat cut with Nesties, as were the star shapes.  I highlighted the mat a little with antique linen, distress ink, added a few brads, and Bob's your mother's brother!

Please leave a comment if you have time.  Many thanks for looking, your interest is always SO much appreciated.

Hugs

Judi x 

Little & Large

Well, this is unusual, not only did I finish off my Elf Tilda card today, but I made this one from scratch, and no, I haven't had a particularly good day with my back, was in bed on the morphine for half the afternoon, but this one was that rarity, that just came together!!!

The image is from Little Claire's website and is called 'Hello, little one'.  I thought that it could just as easily be daddy giraffe as mummy, and hence decided that it might make a nice Father's Day card from a little one.  Hope you think so too, do let me know.

Hugs

Judi x

Golf No. 2

Evening all,

I hope you're not getting fed up of men's cards yet, as I'm gonna need to make quite a few more if I'm to make some dosh ready for the next stamp show I'm planning to go to.

Tonight I'd like to show you the second card I've made using Murray the golfer.  I thought I'd try a different colour way, and different shape card for this one - even I need variety, lol.

I've been very good with this one, and have re-cycled some papers that I found on the inside of envelopes, how thrifty is that???  Both the spots, and the small checks came from this source.  Not sure where the others came from, as I was trying to use up scraps from other projects.  The main sentiment was computer generated, and then cut out with my recent purchase - Nestabilitie Stars.  I'm finding these a really useful alternative to flowers for male cards. 

Hope you like it, and thanks for looking.

Judi x

Anyone for Golf?

Hi there peeps

I can't believe we're still having all this lovely weather, I reckon at this rate it'll snow in August!! 

Anyway, today I'd like your opinions on my latest attempt at a Father's Day card.  I've been asked to make one for a golfer, but don't know much about the guy's taste in colours etc, so have just really made this one as a practice.  The papers are some more from the lovely Tasha - you've saved me a small fortune this year Tash!   The stamp is from a sheet I bought a while back featuring characters called Murray & Ethel, they have some great sentiments with them and are perfect for making humourous cards.  I've coloured Murray with Copics, used a bit of ribbon from my stash, some matting and layering and there you have it - simples!!

Thanks for looking.

Judi x

Football - The order of the day!

Hi everyone,

Aren't we having some glorious weather at the moment, I'm just lovin' being able to look out at blue skies and sunshine again.  It seems like we've had the longest winter, ever!!!

Anyway, having got the typical English conversation out of the way, lol, I'd like to show you another man's card that I've made, this time with Father's Day in mind.  Unfortunately, I no longer have my dad to make cards for, but I'm hoping my daughter might find a few buyer's for me.

This one features one of the 'Flippin' Men' stamps, which I really like.  The decoupage versions are o.k., but I do love being able to colour up my images in whatever colours suit.  This guy looks so much like my next door neighbour - Keith, who is an avid Southampton fan, so I've done it in the 'Saints' colours, with him in mind.  I had some scraps of red paper that I am trying to use up, but didn't have anything that I really liked for the background, so once again, have resorted to making my own, this time with a stamp.  Again, with it being a man's card I've kept it simple, but am quite pleased with it, and my hubby liked it, even though he's not a footie fan.  Hope you do to!

Hugs

Judi