One for the Chaps- Waterfall Greeting Card.

Hello there,

Tonight I have a card to share with you, one that I think would suit most men as it is an interactive card and in my experience men love these sorts of cards!

To show the working of the card I have filmed a short video to show you!

I made up an Easel base for this card then attached the Waterfall workings sideways to make this card a little different!

The waterfall itself was made of circles with a silver boarder that I hoped looked like portholes.

For the cards pull tab, I tied knots into some thick Bakers Twine to keep to the Nautical theme!

Side View of the Easel Style Card. I drew faux stitching around the boarders of the card as well as the circles for the stay!

The stay for the card was made from crafters clay. The shell and Anchor were painted with an acrylic paint then mounted onto card circles and a pearl was added to complete the look.

I hope this gives you some inspiration for a male themed card as I know we crafters sometimes find it difficult to make male cards.

Happy Crafting xx

Flutterby Tag Card

Hello There, Welcome to my Crafting Blog.

So today I have a Tag Card to share with you, it was created using lots of different crafting materials.

To start off with I wanted to create a Poppy, but instead of stamping onto card I thought I would use tissue paper and put the image into a large bottle cap which I purchased from IndigoBlu, so I first painted the cap red, once dry I glued in the stamped and coloured Poppy head image. For the stem of the poppy I used gold embossing powder and added a little green colour with SU markers, the buds of the poppy were coloured red and crystal effects were added over the top! 

                                       

The main background was made by stamping with VersaMark ink and gold embossing powder using the Dinky 'Flutterby' Stamp. 

The small butterflies on the card were stamped onto shrinkies plastic with StaZon Inks, shrunk then one of them was made into a hanging embellishment and the other one was glued onto the stem of the poppy!

                                                

The Butterfly on the poppy was made using the modeling film and StaZon inks as in my previous post. Tiny black beads were added to the poppy once I had coated it in clear embossing powder and coloured beads were added to the butterflies! 

To finish off the card I layered the black and gold piece onto a piece of Stampin up Coastal Cabana card, then onto a black card blank!

Although I have done an Inspirational piece already for the IndigoBlu challenge I thought I would put this card forward for this months Blog challenge to see if I might have a chance of winning a stamp!

Well if you don't try.......................................

Happy Crafting, Sue xx