Penny Black Wildwood and PTI Birds and Blooms Father's Day card

Hello everyone and I hope you are keeping well. We have just had some glorious weather here in the UK and as we are allowed to meet in gardens now, it has been great to reconnect with family and friends. I had my second vaccine on Saturday and I'm looking forward to getting out a bit more once the next restrictions are lifted. 

Anyway, welcome to another challenge over at ATSM.

You can knock your socks off this time because you can make a card for any occasion to share with us.

I continued my little foray into the masculine and went for a Father's Day card.

I took a piece of white card and blended oxide inks on it before splattering with water and die-cutting a stitched rectangle from it. I white embossed the sentiment on and raised it onto a kraft base card.

 I used the Penny Black Wildwood dies and cut 2 squares from kraft and brown card to create the rustic frame. I created the nest by snipping into another couple of frames and built them into a nest shape. The eggs and birds were created with the Papertrey Ink Birds and Blooms stamps and die.

I'd like to play along at

International Art and Soul Challenge #107 - a card for a man

Penny Black Saturday Challenge April - anything goes

The Alphabet Challenge - B is for bird

Cut it Up Challenge #224 - masculine card

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Clearly Besotted Love You Tons Father's Day card

Hello and welcome to Challenge #302  over at Addicted to Stamps and More. This time we have a 'make your mark' challenge so it is time to pull out any markers, paints, chalks etc, in fact anything to help you make your mark.

I decided to use my Copic alcohol pens and came up with this card 

1) Take the elephant stamp from the Clearly Besotted Love You Tons stamp set and stamp it with Memento ink.

2) Colour the image with Copics and add some grass for them to sit on. Make lots of dots around the elephants with a blue pen to resemble sky.

3) Use some rectangle dies to cut a frame to go over the image and a larger one for the background.

4) Cut 3 tiny banners from blue card and stamp and emboss the greeting from the same stamp set with white embossing powder. Trim the banners and add them to the framed image. 

5) Finish off by adding a little bow to the baby elephant's hair.

I thought I'd pass this on to my new Grandaughter, Alice to give to her Daddy for his first Father's Day.

How are you going to make your mark? Why not pop over to the ATSM blog and see what my talented Team Mates have to show you this week.

I'd like to play at

Sunny Day Crafting Challenge #25 - any animal

The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - animal crackers

Artist Inspiration Challenge #202 - Father's Day option

Animal Friends Challenge - elephant

Sweet Stampers Challenge - animals

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Father's Day card

Wow, I go missing for ages and then do 2 posts in one day! Today is Day 5 of the class and we were asked to select a sketch and use brown, blue and 2 shades of green on a card and this is what I came up with.

The front of the card is cut down and the brown stripey paper is on the back and you can see that a bit better on this photo

This is a very simple design and I liked the clean lines but we were asked to use 2 shades of green and I wasn't sure that the 'rock n roll' leaf would count so I tried adding another strip of patterned paper to the front:-

Hmm - I'n not sure about this - what do you think? I think I prefer the first one.

Thank for stopping by.

Hugs
Carol x