Take It Easy, Card For Dad

Wouldn't we all like to, take it easy, that is. Swinging about in a hammock all day. My Dad always wanted a hammock, now he has one, he says, 'I can't get in the flippin' thing now, without falling out the other side!' So of course, this card will be put by for him, probably Fathers Day (in June) as his birthday isn't until November, and it's a bit cold in November to be swinging about in a hammock! I've left the sentiment simple so I can change them if need be!

The Penny Black image was stamped and embossed, coloured with Promakers and I've done a bit of 3D-ing too. The papers are a mixture of Pink Petticoat, (the stripes) and My Minds Eye. (both came free with magazines) The key and key-hole are brads. They're by Woodware. Bit disappointed they didn't include hinges too! Or perhaps they do in another set. The font is a Freebie, it's called GoodDog and you can download it HERE where you'll find two downloads, one with extra dots! (GoodDog Cool)

A bit of a sad day today Frog the Cat passed away. She would've been 19 in September.

New Followers! Hi and a big (((wave))) to Sam from Hettie craftcz, then there's Sharon, elvira.Ketterling and Vintage Paper Art, with no blogs yet or links. Shamela from Shamela's Stamp n Scrap, great use of recycled stuff going on there! Made By Mandy, always a good sauce of challenges! Teresa Jenkins I found here at Mama Pickle's Paper, then Anna Corin!, but no link. Also, scrapymommamouse who I must have missed, fabulous baby Diaper cake!! Then out the back and in the dark, greatdays7406 and kimbob27 with no links, but after a lot of detective work I found find Kim over on Canadian craft corner That's me done for today...

Challenges
Penny Black Saturday Challenge-Men's Cards
Crafty Creations-at the bottom of my garden lives..yep, hedgehogs!
Paper Sundaes- Masculine Colours
Green?
Passion For Promakers- One for the Boys
Craft Your Passion-A male card
Allsortschallenge-inspired by nature.
Crazy For Challenges-use a die (nestie and corner)
Drunkenstampers-to-die-for (nesties and corner)
Peartreedesigns-one-colour
green

An Excreamly Chocolately Quirkiness

The New Challenge over on the Quirky Craft's Challenge Blog is just about to start!! any minute now... soon, now in fact) It's a fortnightly Challenge, it's a nice and easy one this time. All we want to see is.. and who doesn't!

Chocolate and Cream!!

Yummy!!! Anything you'd like to make, Scrapbook page, card, exploding Box, (ooh there's an idea!) Atc, anything at all that has anything, which as a Chocolate and Cream theme, we'd like to see.
Here's mine. I used Chocolate, Mocha, Cream and vanilla coloured Pink Petticoat Papers and Ice cream Sundae image, used my ProMarkers for the colouring, my Quickutz for the lettering and a few gems and ribbon from stash and some pink and gold peel-offs. Pretty sure they came from Create and Craft or Ideal World when I bought some Fairies from them, millions of years ago.

The brown gingham is a freebie, link on my side bar. (Keep Scrolling down and you'll find it!) The little forks and spoon brads, which also come with tiny weeny knives, are from Woodware. The flower was made by folding a six petal punched out flower in half and joining it to others. Very similar to the video I have on my side bar. (Quick, they change every week!)

I think it's missing something, don't you? A nice chocolate coloured bear nipping out from behind the topper with a spoon in his paw!! (Why didn't I think of that before!?!)
I might have another make in the pipe line... not quite cooked yet, so I'll post it later, just to remind you!!
Pop over to Quirky Craft's Challenge to see the other DT cards and makes, then come and join in! I haven't found any challenges yet, let me know if you find one!!

((Hi))) and hello to new follower Netty who has a fabulous blog with loads of altered art and tags and well, her altered Thimble Thingy is just brilliant!! I'm following Netty now so I can pick up some tips!! Pop over and say hi! That's it for now, thanks for stopping by!
(Ohoo hope there's some chocolate somewhere!)

Sir Stampalot Blog Hop and Challenge

Sir Stampalot are moving!! I've already blogged about this, so click here to see my blurb and see a picture of the prizes or nip over to Floral Fantasies! to find out more. There's still time to join in the blog hop and make a card for the challenge and be in with a chance to win some fabulous prizes!!
This is my card I made for the Challenge 'Moving'

I bought the Stamp while over in Seattle last year, it only cost $1. (about 70p in real money!)

I printed a 'silver' (or grey) Pink Petticoat pattern straight onto a blue pearl card. That was fine of course but then...when I printed the black arrows on to the same pearl card the ink was still very wet and smudged. Ohoh! thought me, I wonder??? (The little grey cells were jumping like meal-worms eating jelly beans!)

So, I printed the arrows again, being very careful not the smudge them as they shot out of the printer and quickly covered them with ordinary clear embossing power and heat set them with my heat-gun and they looked like I'd just stamped them! (No melt dust or special papers in sight! only the ordinary pearl card.)

I was going to add some flowers, but then...I changed my mind. The writing, 'We're Moving' ' I did by hand. The Moving car stamp was coloured with Promaker pens. The little car brads are Woodware. The arrows were done on my laptop and I used my Letraset fine marker for the 'stitching' and writing. I also sprinkled them with embossing power too!
Time to say Hi!!!! To two new followers!! Hello to Crafty Chris!! Pop over to Chris's lovely blog and say hi! You'll find all sorts over there! And and and!!!! She has a very TIDY desk for 'What's on your Workdesk Wednesday!!! And Hi and a big ((((wave)) to Lankygirl, pop over to My Creative Place where you'll find Tracey has some fantastic cards and other makes! I just love those Lillybean fairies!!!

A Christmas Card for Mum and Dad

This Tilda card I made for my Mum and Dad. I used Papermania papers and my Stampin' Up prize papers over some gold miri card that I fixed on to a folded green card, then of course I couldn't find an envelope for it! You've probably spotted that I quite liked these papers as I did a few similar cards, one being Tom's and Emma's card, which I posted here on January 1st. The Christmas Tree brads I think were from Woodware, the image was a swap, which I've had for ages but only just found Christmas Eve! (Yes I was still making cards Christmas morning!) I haven't found her to buy yet, so I'm not sure of her real name but if you've seen her let me know! She has wings, so does that make her an angel?? I hope so, because after doing a spot of blog hopping I found The ABC Christmas Challenge blog. This time round the Challenge is A is for Angel, anyway, I think she's an angel so I'm going to put her into the challenge! Pop over and have a look, I bet you have an angel card that'll fit in with this challenge too! There's also some blog candy going too, all you have to do it post about it and add this badge to your side bar. I did turn off the word variation, it was off for about two to three weeks, but I'm afraid I was swamped with spam...so I'm sorry guys...it's gone back on!! (No...I've taken it off again...)
Back to the card!! The red dotty ribbon is from my stash. I used double sided tape to fix the ribbon and silicone to add the bow. As you can see, it was a little too wide, so, a sprinkling of gold micro glitter hid the extra stickiness! Sorry for being a terrible blogger lately. To make up for it I've added a few more posts down below...! Hmmm...that sounds a little painful!

Let it Quirky well Snow!

Here it is. This is my DT card for the Quirky Craft's Challenge. This time (have I mention it? once maybe twice?) it's my turn to come up with an idea on what to do. While I've been on the team there's been Vintage, Rough and Smooth, Out and About, Halloween or Autumn, also Masculine and a Recipe Challenge. So I've chosen to do a Sketch and here it is.

Don't worry, you don't have to follow the colours just the shapes but even then you can swap it about, flip it, use circles instead of squares, buttons instead of brads, flowers instead of gems, whatever really!
I've used a 5" square card, silver miri board, my favourite Penny Black Snowman again (I have him coming from America at last!) Couldn't find him anywhere here!) Gems from my stash and Woodware snowflakes brads also Woodware punches for the scalloped circles & snowflakes and a Martha Stewart fern punch. I've coloured him using ProMakers and Copic Pens. The blue paper snow flakes and the sentiment were coloured using a blue Copic pen, so the colour would match up. I've 3D-ed Snowy, just to make him a little different from the other Snowy cards I've made and added a bit of silver-grey 'eye-lash' wool.

If any of my followers join in with this challenge, and are picked as the winner (Me,myself and I, Mrs Judge lady!!) I'll add a little something extra to the prize!!
While I've been blog hopping, I've found PaperPlay Challenges and their challenge for this week is called 'Read All About it' and if you look very closely you'll see that behind Snowy The Snowman are the lyrics to 'Walking in a Winter Wonderland'! So, I'm thinking he'll fit right in there too!

Now then, any freebies?? Yes, course there is! All the papers I've used are from a 3 part Scrapbooking kit by Martine called Winter Wonderland and can be downloaded from The Craft Table Blot Spot (you'll find some gingham papers there too!) I've added an insert using more of the papers and another Snowy. Actually that would make a nice quick and simple card too, wouldn't it!? (yes Lyn)
What else? Ah! yes the font, that's a freebie too. Great isn't it? I quite often write like this on cards, but it looks even better typed! This was done in WordArt on the computer so I could get the word to 'flow' and also use another colour so it looks like there's a shadow, but it looks just as good writing it in ordinary Word, as you can see above, on the insert.
The Font is called Cool Dots and can be downloaded from ScrapBooking Fonts. It's a site specially for Scrapbooking fans, so hunt out their other lovely freebie fonts while you're there!! Or you can download it from HERE too!
I'd love to welcome new follower 150!!!! (ding dong ding dong!!) Annie! From Annie's Space. I was blog hopping last night and came across her lovely blog and had to follow because I fell in love with her 'Gnome Fold Card' and I think I'm going to pop back later and ask if I can 'Clipit' so you all can see it, (I know how lazy you are!!) But, come on, there's nothing on the Telly, (except Spiderman of course!) go and have a look!!!

Well, that's it for now, back later to add more things and correct all the smelling misstakes.
Don't forget to pop over to Quirky Crafts and have a go at this (wonderful!!! coz its my idea!) Sketch Challenge!! Thanks for stopping by!