Post christmas birthday card

My little brother's birthday is on today and I have actually had time to spend some time and make a half decent card for him. Male cards are always difficult but for a early 30s bloke who definately wouldn't like Paper Nation or Sugar Nellie characters it's even more tricky.

So I picked my colours (typical male blue, green and brown) and went with textures and shapes, which is so much easier now I have my Sizzix!

I also decided that as I had the time I would make it more interested by adding some papers on the inside as I have seen Rozzy do many times on her Crafty Pad DT creations and always admired.

Anyway - see what you think - as usual your comments would be much appreciated.

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #17

This is a gorgeous sketch over at Sunday Sketch & Stamp and I had great fun with it. Unfortunately mirricard really doesn't show up well when I try to photograph it, but please try to imagine this with a silver surround rather than a dark one! These lovely felted snowflake brads I bought for just 80p for a pack of 12 - a bargain I think and as they were pink I couldn't resist. The greeting is that plastic confetti which came out a card I received.

Quirky Crafts Christmas Raffle

Over on Quirky Crafts we've got a fabulous Christmas raffle with just the best prizes, including a Cuttlebug, a Zutter Round it all and many others

Tickets cost just £2 and can be purchased using paypal. The draw will be on 10th December. So nip over now and try your luck!

Two important bits of news....

... Firstly this is my week to be a Guest DT member over on The Crafty Pad - the challenge was a sketch with one of Debbie's lovely cute Ted stamps. I had a moment of inspiration to mask Ted and create Mr & Mrs Ted pulling their Christmas tree home. I used some lovely free papers from a magazine and have lots of fun with liquid pearls and glitter!!

See what you think.



Secondly Challenge 18 over at Quirky Crafts and Cazzy's theme this week is Christmas. I thought that it was time I did something other than a card so have posted the small tin I have created for Mum's Christmas fair.

I saw these tins demo'd at Colemans and Pippa and I thought we could do a few for our stalls. I was so pleased with this and I do so love playing with alcohol inks and rubber stamping and embossing - so it has all my favourite elements - lets hope they sell!!

Crafty Pad Challenge 48

This weeks challenge over at The Crafty Pad is to use a TRIANGLE. So I have remembered some cards that I have made in previous years where triangles of patterned paper symbolise Christmas trees.

Sometimes I scrunch the paper and highlight the raised bits with ink but this time I have just left them flat and sharp and added stamped swirls (as is my thing this year). I was really please with the way the background turned out - I just stamped onto red card with Versamark but the card I used must be very porous as it has shown up really well. The stamp and the green paper are part of the new and improved Papermania range which have some gorgeous designs this Christmas.