Man enough for pink

As soon as I saw this sketch over at Hand Stamped Sentiments I felt inspired, and immediately wanted to use my background chevron stamp.

I stamped the paler blue, pink and red stripes onto tissue paper, and stuck them over the chevrons before adding the sentiment

Chalkboard Birthday card

Just want to say a big thank you to Amy at the Friday Mashup for showing us the chalkboard technique - I'd never seen it before and now I'm hooked.... I've made four cards in the last few days using it!
Needless to say I'm entering it into their weekly challenge:


1. Make a project using the "Chalkboard Technique".

2. Or Make a project using " 2 or more Stamp Sets".

3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project using "2 or more Stamp Sets with the Chalkboard Technique".

I've used 2 different stamp sets (the alphabet one and the flowery one)

I heat embossed the flowery stamp onto the back of a cereal packet (homemade chipboard!) in a shimmering red/pink and carefully cut out a few of the flowers that I stuck over the top of the white stamped image.

Am also entering this into CAS-ual Fridays #94: chipboard

Woodgrain Birthday

There are lots of January birthdays in my family so I'm having a busy couple of weeks getting them all made. It's giving me a chance to use some of the stamps I received for Christmas too, so I'm having a great time!

This one is based on the sketch over at Hand Stamped Sentiments

I stamped my grunge background stamp onto some tissue paper for the background layer, then used my new SU woodgrain stamp for the next layer which I gently distressed.  The small polka dots were stamped onto tissue paper so that the wood pattern can still be seen through.  I keep all sorts of bits of ribbon in my stash and (mostly) have no idea where it all comes from - I thought this blue one provided a nice pop of colour.  I chose to stamp the sentiment in a matching blue, this final layer is raised up from the card with some sticky pads.

Paper pieced cupcake card

Two challenges for this card -
CAS-ual Fridays #86, Long and Short
and the last ever (sob) CR84FN colour challenge - use aqua, tan and light yellow

The cupcake stamp was stamped onto some patterned aqua colour paper for the base, and onto some stamped yellow polka dots for the cakey topping.  The candle was from another stamp set.  I coloured in some of the cake decorations in a darker aqua colour, and added some pale yellow and aqua pearls for the sprinkles.

I always find CAS cards challenging because there's always something else I want to add - I hope I held back enough on this one!

The Meaning Of Life

I've made this card for my brother-in-law.  I couldn't resist taking a page out of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for this birthday!
The sketch is from Sketch Saturday #241

And the colours are from Paper Players #128, Pacific Point, Basic Gray and Daffodil Delight.

The number 42 has been stamped in my closest blue to Pacific Point, cut out and stuck onto a circle of acetate.  I've stuck a circle of white tissue paper which was stamped in grey with big polka dots to the other side of this acetate
.  The sentiment was stamped in a Daffodil Delight-ish yellow and I inked the paper twine with this too to match it into the card's colour scheme.
Added a few grey sparkles and staples, and a blue faux stitched border, and bosh, tis done!

Hardware

Well that was a fun one to make!
I started off with the sketch from Sketch Saturday and knew I wanted to make a birthday card for a friend of my son

As this is a card for a boy I thought I'd go with a blue theme, although the neutral pallette might have got a small look in too!  So am also entering it into Fussy and Fancy's Feeling Blue challenge, and CASual Friday's Winter Blues challenge.
I'm not sure if this would count as a Clean & Simple card but the challenge over at Less is More this week is to use some hardware which I don't often do, so seeing as they've given me the inspiration I'll put it in

Blue Stripe Birthday

This was a good card for using up some of the scraps of wrapping paper that I can't bear to throw away because they might be useful for something!
The letters are from a Stampin' Up jumbo wheel (Nursery Letters) that I stamped onto scraps of white paper then cut out individually.  I didn't have a stamp with the right size sentiment for the 'happy' so (after much practice) wrote it in white gel pen.  While I was at it I added the lines of white dots too.
Am entering this card into
Allsorts - For Men Only