Another one...

...Good morning, lovely peeps of Blogland!  So, if all has gone to plan, I will now be in Glasgow at the Sincerely Yours Papercraft Show! (I'm not very good at using my phone for stuff, but if I get chance, will try and take some pics for you and upload to Facebook when I get across to Edinburgh.)  It'll be a busy day with setting up first thing, the show from 10am until 4pm, then pack everything up, a hop, skip and a jump over to Edinburgh and set it all back up again ready for tomorrow..followed by a well deserved glass of rose in the hotel bar, I think!
Here's another sample made using the golf image and backing papers from Boys2Men...

Card Recipe -

Dark Brown card - 14cm square

DIY checkerplate paper - 13.5cm square

Light Brown matt - 12cm square

Golf text, argyle and plaid papers - 2.5 x 9cm

Golf decoupage topper

Golf sentiment

Impression Obsession Cloud dies

Embellishments - Crystal glitter, Glossy Accents, Chocolate Brown Satin Ribbon, pearls

Hope you're all having a fabulous Saturday!  Edinburgh tomorrow, but it's close down and set back up before then!

Crafty hugs,

Off to Scotland!...

Hello, lovely Blogger friends!  We're off up to Glasgow later in preparation for tomorrow's Show...I always get the jitters, hoping that I've remembered everything and that all goes to plan...that's the  control freak in me, I suppose! Fingers crossed the traffic isn't too bad - thankfully I don't have to drive (I HATE driving and would never contemplate going on the motorway - I'm a coiled up spring just being a passenger!)
So here's my third new sample inspired by Carolyn's fabulous diarama card HERE (thanks again, Carolyn!)  This is my first ever diarama card using the football decoupage topper and papers from Boys2Men CD-Rom...

Card Recipe -

Card base - 2 sheets A4 cut lengthways to 14cm and scored at 2cm and 3.5cm at each end, then corners rounded

Red matt - 13.5cm square

Football paper - 13cm square

Cut aperture in football paper then adhere to red matt and cut smaller aperture in red paper.

Adhere to card base front then cut aperture again.

TIP : place a piece of copy paper on your bottom plate when cutting, to save marking your card

Football text paper - 13.5cm square

Adhere to card base back then attach front and back together

Black - 2 pieces 1.5 x 13.5cm, two corners rounded

Football decoupage image topper, matted onto black card.

Football sentiment

Black strips - 0.5 x 14cm

I added a writing panel on the back with the silver trophy image and the whole thing folds flat to fit in an A5 envelope.
Have a fabulous weekend and I'll see you on the other side!
Hugs,
Lisa x

Another Boys2Men sample....

Good afternoon, lovely peeps! I'm back to share another new sample from my Boys2Men CD-Rom.  This time it was a rugby card using the rubgy decoupage topper and papers...

Card Recipe -

Card blank - 12.5 x 17.5cm (approx 5 x 7 inches)

Light Brown matt - 12 x 17cm, bottom corners rounded

Dark Brown - 11.5 x 16.5cm, bottom corners rounded and top half embossed with Cuttlebug Distress Stripes embossing folder

Light Brown matt - 10.5 x 7cm

Rugby text paper - 10 x 6.5cm

Green matt - 2.5 x 12.5cm

Rugby stripe - 2 x 12cm

Circular Rugby decoupage topper

Sue Wilson Pierced Flag Dies

Embellishments - Pearl stars, Crystal glitter and pearls

All patterned paper edges were inked with Vintage Photo Dstress Ink

The layout for this card was inspired by another fantastic sketch over at The Deconstructed Sketch #139 - I find Jen's layouts a great starting point and they make crafting so much easier and less time consuming too!
Have a terrific Thursday!
Hugs,
Lisa x

Only 3 days to go!...

Good afternoon, dear Blogger buddies and a happy, if somewhat wet Wednesday to you all!  I can't quite believe that it's only 3 days until the Sincerely Yours Papercraft @ Glasgow and Edinburgh Shows are upon us!...

...Tickets are available at a discounted price if you buy online before Thursday 8pm and include free tea and coffee, they are available through the Sincerely Yours website HERE...
...I have been prepping for the show, sorting out discs and samples and felt that I needed to make some new Boys2Men samples as they were looking a bit worn and dated - it is surprising how much my card style has changed over the years!  I'll have a few cards to share with you over the next couple of days, then it'll be the long haul up to Scotland for what I hope will be a fun filled weekend!  I love meeting new fellow crafters and would be really pleased if you come along and say 'Hi!' at my stand!
So here's a card made using the Car image and papers from Boys2Men...

Card Recipe -

Card base - 12.5 x 17.5cm (approx. 5 x 7 inches)

Red matt - 12 x 17cm

Tyre track paper - 11.5 x 16.5cm

Black matt - 10.5 x 11cm

Silver paper - 10 x 10.5cm

Navy Blue matt - 8.5 x 13.5cm

Car text paper - 8 x 13cm

Car .png printed in Windows Photo Viewer, 9 to a page

Car sentiment

Sue Wilson Pierced Flag Dies

Embellishments - Star button, Large Pearls for headlights, Silver glitter, pearls and Glossy Accents

...I have left the inside blank as it will be in a cello bag on my display board, but if I were making it for sending, I would replicate the paper layers of the front, replacing the text paper with plain for writing on.
Right off to make some tuna and sweetcorn pasta for my little man for when he gets in - he's got after school sports until 4.30pm, then it's footie training at 6, so he'll sleep tonight! Hope this rain isn't in for the long haul! Have a fabulous evening!
Hugs,

A card and a sentiment...

Good morning, dear Blogger buddies and a happy Thursday to you all!  At the beginning of the week, I got a lovely email from a fellow crafter, Carolyn Bell, sharing a card she'd made using one of the designs from my Boys2Men CD.  I love to see other people's creations and asked if I could share her make here on my blog and she agreed, so here's a brilliant diarama card using the football topper and papers...

...I haven't made one of this style card (I know, where have I been?!) but think I might just have to!  You could easily incorporate team colours and fancy it up if you want to, but I also like the simplicity and mainly black and white colour tones.  THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing, Carolyn! (Off to make a sample card like this for my upcoming Sincerely Yours Shows in Glasgow and Edinburgh!  Just over a week to go! Aargh!!)
I also promised one of the girls at our workshop that I would post the sentiment from the last card we made at our class, so here it is...well, I had to make it again as I hadn't saved it, but it should be near enough the same!...

Can't believe it's May tomorrow! We're looking forward to another long weekend, although the weather isn't looking great so it'll probably end up being an indoor one prepping for Scotland! Enjoy what is left of the week and don't forget there's still time to enter into our 'Easel Does it!' challenge over at Passion for Promarkers!
Hugs,

Passion for Promarkers - One for the Boys

Good morning, Bloggers!  It's time for a new challenge over at Passion for Promarkers and this week's theme has been set by the lovely Marie who has chosen 'One for the Boys'.  Having 2 boys myself, I quite enjoy making boys cards, though don't really seem to make enough of them!
This week we are sponsored by the fabulous Clearly Besotted Stamps who are offering 1 stamp set to the lucky winner picked at random...

Don’t forget you must use your Letraset products (i.e. promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers, tria markers, metallic markers or neon markers) and of course follow 

the theme.

...I decided to go with a space theme for my card and kept the design quite clean and simple...

...The base card is a sideways easel (still love this shape card as it allows you to decorate inside and display the card so that you can see both the front and inside of the card at once).  The image is the space digistamp from Boys2Men CD-Rom and I coloured up 4 of the images using my Pro/Flexmarkers and decoupaged for a bit more depth.  Unfortunately, I forgot to write down the colours I used!  Doh!

...There are 2 panels inside the card, one with the sentiment 'Hope your day is out of this world!' and a writing panel with the rocket line image on...

...I finished by adding the stars back in with a white gel pen, a few small dark blue diamantes and some Stardust Stickles on the moon, flames and UFO lights!  Hope you like my extra terrestrial creation and don't forget to fly on over to the Passion for Promarkers blog to see what my talented teamies have been up to!  Many thanks for visiting me today!  Hugs,
Lisa x

Robot Bag...

Hi everyone!  Another Spring morning here in Wales - yesterday, I managed to get out in the garden for a couple of hours, it's amazing how satisfying digging and weeding a patch of dirt can be!?!  I now have two raised vegetable beds ready for planting, now all I have to do is choose what I'm going to grow this year?  I dug up the last of the potatoes, which had kept all winter...there were a couple that were frosted, but I must have dug up a good 6 or 7lb of spuds - fantastic!  The garden is now full of little birds pecking away at the insects that have been unearthed...don't you just love Spring?!

Anyway, enough of my prattling, I have a project to share...  I noticed that it's a nice and easy Anything Goes over at Simon Says Stamp and Show - I love that challenge blog, it makes me think outside of my comfort zone and gets me mucky crafting (which is always a therapy when you're having a bad day)!  So I decided to alter another gift bag that my eldest received a present in for his birthday...

...before...

...and after!  I picked up the Couture Creations 'Workshop' folder form Crafts4U whilst we were at Leigh show, thinking that it would go well with the Boys2Men disc.  I inked the embossed panel with Weathered Wood DI and Tuxedo Black Memento (blends rather nicely actually)...

...I printed the robot digi twice onto grey pearl cardstock, coloured parts with Promarkers, then decoupaged using the second image.  I created a sign in PS for him to hold with the sentiment on...I thought 'just for you' would make it useable for any occasion.  I added some lovely wide grosgrain ribbon that was saved from little man's new PJ packaging and the cogs are Sizzlits dies that have been in my stash for ages.  I highlighted with some coloured glitters and gilding flakes and added a clock charm, that I also picked up at Leigh show...

And there you have it, a one off gift bag for some lucky recipient - if I can bear to part with it that is!  I do try to shut out of my mind the possibility that someone would throw it away afterwards, but it lurks there in some dusty corner of my brain!  I can't throw away any of the hand made cards I receive, so as you can imagine, have boxes and boxes of cards and things that the boys have made over the years!  Hope you like my creation and that it gives you the inspiration to have a go at altering something yourself!  Lisa x

I'm entering this project into the following challenges :

Simon Says Stamp and Show

Anything Goes

CES Challenge

Challenge#76 Charmed!

Paperplay Challenges

Recycle it!

(I've used a recycled gift bag and grosgrain ribbon from PJ packaging)

Crafty Creations Challenge

Challenge #160 Stripes

TV card

Good evening, everyone!  Can I just say another big HELLO and warm welcome to my newest followers Rach and Carolyn - thanks for joining my little blog ladies and I hope you find some inspiration in what I do!

So, onto tonight's creations...First I have a short tutorial for a TV card that I concocted today - well, I say short, it depends how much I waffle on!?!  Without further a do, here's the finished card...

...side view...

...and back...

...and here's how I made it :- To start, you'll need 2 pieces of cardstock measuring 12 x 21cm, one for the front and one for the back panel...

...place in a landscape orientation on a score board and score A4 half fold...

...move this score line to DL and score A4 half fold again, repeat with the other piece of cardstock.

 For the front of the TV, cut a piece of scrap card to 10cm square and round the corners using a punch.  Place on the left hand side of the front panel, as shown above and draw around, then cut out...

...you can attach acetate behind the aperture if you want to, then place adhesive on the left hand tab and attach the front and back panels together, as below...

...decorate the inside of your TV...

...(I know, the picture has magically changed into a golfing image from the original rugby one - this is because I made 2 cards, photographing the bits of one and the completed card of another!)  I decorated my card with papers and decoupage images from my Boys2Men CD-ROM.  After decorating the inside,  fold all score lines, place adhesive along the right hand tab and attach to the front panel side, creating the TV box card...
...I added an aerial made using my circle nesties and some strips of silver card, buttons made form large half pearls coloured with Promarker Black and a round of the same base card with black peel offs to look like a speaker.  I finished with a sentiment and there you have it...

You could take the card as far as you want, adding wood effect embossed panels to the sides and front, and maybe even adding a photograph as the programme?!  I just thought it was something fun and different from a square card.

Next I made a trophy card using another image from the Boys2Men disc...

...I thought this could be for any congratulatory (is that even a word?!) occasion, birthday, well done, you passed, etc.  You could add a sentiment to either side of the base and a plaque to write on (I wanted to keep the wood effect embossing visible, as it's just for a sample card.)  So, there you go, 2 more samples to add to my collection, which is looking rather depleted, I have to say!  Hope you like them and thanks for popping over.  See you soon, Lisa X

New samples...

Hi guys, well, as promised I thought I would share some pics of the new Boys2Men samples that I have been playing with...

...The first was an easel card using the diy digistamp inked with Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo and Walnut Distress Inks and gilded with Autumn Rose gilding flakes - my newest product discovery!...

...Next, I created an acetate card using the music digistamp - I printed onto printable acetate in mirror image and glittered the reverse of the guitar to highlight it...

...I then converted another old peanut tin using the golf images - I thought it would be good with a couple of golf balls and some tees in, or chocolate golf balls?!  Nice alternative to an Easter Egg for the golfers of this world...

...Next to get the altering was a Body Shop gift box that I had received at Christmas, I decided to use the pirate design to turn it into a treasure box - again, another great alternative to an Easter egg, filled with chocolate coins and shiny foiled treats, or whatever treasure you like!...

...Lastly is probably my favourite - this football door hanger, made to look like an old telly, is a fun decoration to hang on the door when the men or women in your life are busy watching the match!  Of course, it could always be the rugby, golf, bug, music, or any of the men's designs to be honest, and could easily be made into a card by using a folded card blank...
...Hope this gives you some inspiration to make something new and thanks for looking!  Lisa x

Fishing card

Hi guys!  Back with another card for you tonight - after Saturday's demo day, I was inspired to get out my Boys2Men disc and print off one of the digistamps to make a card.  I'd made a demo card using the fish digistamp, coloured with my Promarkers and was amazed at the way the fish turned out, so came up with this...

...the background was a piece of grey card embossed with Craft Concepts Wood grain folder, inked with Weathered Wood and Walnut Distress Inks and the text paper was from the Boys2Men disc.  I printed 4 of the fish digistamp images, coloured with my Promarkers, decoupaged 3 layers on the front of the card and highlighted with Glamourdust.  The netting was some white net that I had in my stash - I attacked it with Vintage Photo and Walnut Distress Inks to give it a dirtier look, then threaded it through one of the holes in my eyelet circle, before attaching it to the back of the card layer...

...the fishing rod was also from the fishing digistamp sheet and the 'Birthday 'fishes' sentiment from the sentiments sheet.  I cut the barbs from a fishing lure and siliconed seed beads on the end of the hooks for safety before attaching to the card with silver thread.  I coloured a small feather with Promarkers, wound silver thread around the end and attached this with the lure.  I decorated the inside to match...

...I used the same background, text paper and circle nesties to decorate the writing side of the insert, then coloured a second fishing rod digistamp and 'Have a reel-y great day!' sentiment and attached to the lost leaf side...

..it's a great card to send to a fishing fan and I'm really pleased with the way it turned out!  Hope it gives you some inspiration!  Thanks for looking, as always - it means a lot!  Lisa

I'm entering this card into the following challenges -

Sentimental Sundays

Challenge #64 For the Men in your Life

Sweet Satmpin' Challenge

It's one for the Boys

Allsorts Challenge

Free and Easy (2nd entry!)

Cute Card Thursday

Challenge 173 Going round in Circles

Captain Edwin

Hi guys!  My how this week has flown - it's Sunday again!  Well, I have another card made using one of the fabulous stamps I got from SSS - Captain Edwin...

...isn't he just adorable?!  As I've said before, I love making boys cards and this was no exception.  Out came my Boys2Men disc and I printed off the treasure map, skull and cross bones and pirate text papers, and the scroll, treasure chest and anchor embellishments too - just perfect for with this little man!  I coloured Edwin using my Promarkers, then cut him out and mounted him on oval and scalloped oval nesties...

...all edges were inked with Walnut Stain Distress Ink to give an aged look, then I added string lace, that I cut the bound edges off to make it look like rigging and finished with a couple of pearl stars coloured with Promarkers.  A touch of glitter on his hat and the treasure, and job done...

Hope you're all having a good Bank Holiday weekend and that the sun is shining with you, coz it's grey, wet and miserable here in Wales - roll on summer!  Thanks for looking once again and happy crafting!  Lisa X

I'm entering this card into the following challenges :

Colour Create Challenge

White, cream and brown

Scrappy Frogs

Happy Birthday

Stamp Something

Something Sentimental

My Time to Craft

Use a die cut

(oval nesties)