Techniques with Kit & Clowder

Just a quick note

I realise Father's Day was last month in the UK, but I've just noticed that I didn't share my Father's Day card with you. I don't know why I didn't post it because I was really pleased with the outcome.

I don't know if you are aware, but I am a member of Kit and Clowder? Alyce Keegan does the most amazing tutorials each month for a nominal fee and teaches us so many new techniques. Each class has a pdf downloadable and printable booklet, many 'how-to' step-by-step videos to assist you through each step and sometimes free digital stamps or money off coupons/vouchers to purchase the stamp being used in the class, if you wish (although this is helpful, it is NOT compulsory and the class techniques can be applied to any stamp you have in your library / collection). My most favourite one to date is texturing.  I thought I would make a Father's Day card using some of the new techniques I have learned in the last few months.

I used a digital image from Mo's Digital Pencil - Mr Fixit and coloured the image in with my Copic markers.  I freehand drew on what I thought would pass for a 'six-pack' and chest muscle and then proceeded to add texture and shading to the t-shirt using my markers and the techniques learnt. Added a denim texture to the jeans and coloured in the rest of the image as I would normally.  To add the shaded area behind him, I used a dark grey Prismacolor pencil and some Sansodor which I blended with a blending stump. To add a little more depth, I then went over a small area closer to the image with a black Prismacolor pencil and again, blended with Sansodor.

I then cut it out with a circle cutter and again, slightly larger, with a background colour.  I then printed the sentiment and mounted onto matching background paper.  I then mounted two silver, glitter stars to finish it off.

Hope you like it?

Windows

At the Crazy for Challenges blog this week, their theme is 'Windows'.  These can be any form of window i.e. a hole cut in the front of the card, a shaker card, a window in an image (including vehicles), anything basically that has or is classed as a window.

I chose to make the following card for this week's challenge as I have a few male birthdays coming up this month and next, so I needed to make a few masculine cards.

For this card I used another Lili of the Valley digital image called 'Under the Bonnet' in the Men and Boys section, the image can be found here.

Firstly, I used a piece of green scrap backing paper from my scrap box and ran it through my Big Shot in an embossing folder. The embossing folder is an after market one purchased on eBay. Had to wait ages for it to arrive from China, but it was only 99p with free P&P and it embosses beautifully. I then mounted this to the front of my 8" x 8" card blank.

I coloured my image in a similar colour to the embossed card using my Copic pens and mounted it first to green card and then to a beautiful green glitter card (purchased in a pack of glittered card from B&M Stores).  To finish it off, I simply added three white Card Candi to the top left of the card, I didn't want to add a sentiment to this one, which I normally would do, because I may use it for my daughter's boyfriend, if he passes his driving test - IF...

That's it... hope you like it.

Don't forget to pop over and visit Crazy 4 Challenges Blogspot if you would like to take part too.

Thanks for stopping by.

Fae xxx

One for the Boys/Men

Hi all

Just a little something I have prepared for this week's various blogs challenges, listed below:

Passion for ProMarkers challenge 'One for the Boys/Men' Here

Ooh La La Creations No 158:

Father's Day/Male Here

I was asked to make an 18th Birthday card for a friend of my daughter's, and decided, as he will be doing his first driving lesson on his birthday, this lovely image from Lili of the Valley would be perfect.

I used my beloved ProMarkers (and Prismacolour pencils for highlights and lowlights) to colour this image and added a few candi embellishments and a sentiment (also from Lili of the Valley).

Hope you like the card and I look forward to seeing everyone's projects in the above challenges.

Thanks for stopping by and thank you for taking the time to view my blog.

Hugs

Fifty Shades

Hi 'fifty shades' fans. I thought I would share this little card I made earlier with you all. I just love this image.

It's a digital stamp called 'Grey Tie' from Saturated Canary and you can find it here.

I have read all of the Fifty Shades' books and I just think this would be a cool card for a male or a female.

I hope you like the card and thanks again, for stopping by to visit my craft blog.

Enjoy.
Hugs, Fae xxx

Yosemite Sam... SAM

Hi guys and gals

Just thought I would share this little project with you all.

On 26th October it's my daughter's boyfriends sixteenth birthday. He's a strange one to buy for so I'm just gonna give him some cash but equally I had a hard time trying to think of something to use as inspiration for his card.  He loves tattoo style text and images and his name is Sam so I thought it would be fun and a little bit different to make a Yosemite Sam card.

I drew the image freehand, copying an image I found on Google images and the text style is my own.  I then coloured the text so that it would look like it was on fire, as Yosemite is firing his pistols. Job done.

I hope you like the card and thanks for visiting today.

All Boy...

Another card from me today is for the following challenges

Mo's DP2 Challenge '"B" is for...' and
Come and Get It Challenges using the colours Olive, Razzleberry and Pumpkin

First of all I printed off one of Mo's gorgeous images, 'Fixer Boy' and you can get it from her shop here because "B" is for... BOY, then I proceeded to colour the image using the three colours given above.

I love the overall finish of the card (the photograph doesn't really do it justice) and I was really pleased with the end result. I think I shall give this card to my nephew next month.

I then added a verse that I got out of the bargain bin at Alexandra Palace a few years ago and a charm.

Hope you like it,
Thanks for stopping by today,
Hugs, Fae xx

Sticky Fingers

House Mouse 'Donut Bliss 2002'

Last card of the day... Male maybe, female... definitely.

Anyway, whether it's a male card or not, I had great fun making it.

First, I stamped the image onto plain white card and then coloured in Muzzy the Mouse with my Promarkers and coloured Derwent Watercolour pencils. I didn't bother blending them with the Sansodor as the finished result looked okay as it was.  I then mounted the image onto peach coloured card stock and added some folded peach gingham ribbon pieces (keeping to the 'odd number' rule).  I then mounted that onto brown coloured card stock (although it looks black in the picture...sorry).

I used double sided sticky tape to then add the whole thing to the scalloped base card stock and then inked up a Hero Arts clear sentiment, which I stamped straight onto the base card in the bottom, right corner. Hope you like it? And, I do think I could still give this to a man, despite the peachiness of the colour scheme. Once the whole thing was put together, I then added some 'glossy accents' to the glaze of the doughnut and left it to dry flat.

TIP: Always leave glossy accents somewhere flat to dry (preferably overnight), the slightest dip or uneveness of the surface it is left on, will result in the liquid 'pooling' and the final result won't be as impressive.

Anyway, I hope you like my card and thank you, once again, for stopping by and visiting me today.
See you again soon, I hope.

Enjoy the rest of your day.
Hugs

Mild or Mature?

Hello again

Well... I promised you a selection of 'male' cards and here's the next one.

Again, a really simple card with no embellishments or added extras.  I stamped the two images: Funstamps 'Gent's Shirt' and Funstamps 'Gent's Waistcoat' onto seperate pieces of white card and then coloured them with promarkers (no pencils used this time). and then I cut them both out.  I mounted the white striped shirt first onto another piece of square white card, at a slight angle and to the left, with double sided Sticky Tape and then  added foam pads to the waistcoat image which I mounted to the right of the square.

I mounted the square card onto coloured blue cardstock and then mounted it again onto a second piece of white square card.  I added a strip of the same blue card to the left of the base card and then mounted the whole thing to the top.

I then used a metallic gold pen just to highlight the buttons and the pocket watch on the waistcoat image. Slightly older, middle-age male card? Could be used for a Male Birthday, New Job or Promotion, even a retirement card maybe? I think so.

Thanks for visiting
Hugs,

Sleeping it off...

Hello again

My next card for today is another male card.  This time I used a digi image rather than a stamped one.

I really like this image and it is available here at Di's Digi Downloads. He's called 'Beer Bear'.

I loved this background paper and have had it for ages as it seemed to overpower anything that I put with it,. However, with this image it seemed to compliment it perfectly so I was really pleased with the overall outcome.

I then added a Craftwork Cards greeting, which I coloured in with a Promarker to compliment the colours used.


Finally, I added some Card Candi which I also coloured in with the same Promarker colour. Job done!

So... what do you think of my male cards so far? Too young still? Watch this space, there's more to come.

Thanks for visiting me,
Hugs,

Clean and Simple Pussy Cat

Hi Girls and fellas
What a fabulously sunny (but chilly) day we have here in Hertfordshire, England.  Hope the weather is being as nice to you wherever you may be in the world?

I have another card to share with you all today. You may remember me saying that I challenged myself to make some more 'male' cards... well that's exactly what I have been doing since our last little chat. They're still a little on the young side for my liking, but I think you could still get away with giving them to older men.



Anyway, here is my first card (and a close up of the colouring technique I used with my Promarkers and my colouring pencils).

I really love Penny Black stamps and have to confess that I have been so blinkered by my digi stamps that I'd almost forgotten how much fun it could be inking up a stamp and stamping out an image on crisp, smooth, white card and colouring it in.  Makes such a difference to not have to switch on the printer and then select and size a digi stamp and sometimes print it a couple of times before I get it to just the right size. I still like both ways though so I'm not complaining.

Anyway, a really simple, 'male' card. Loving the colours and the background paper on this one. Was really pleased with how this one turned out even though there aren't any 'pretty' embellishments etc. Just a plain and simple card that hopefully any man would be happy to receive.

Thanks for taking the time to visit me today.
Hugs,

Kitchen Knight

Hello again, it's me... I'm back

Here's another card made with a digi image from Mo Manning. It's called Kitchen Knight and you can find him here. 

I decided to colour him in in blues and reds and I just love that sleepy ol' dragon.

I mounted the image onto two colours of blue and added some thin ribbons down the left and along the bottom of the image. I then ran a strip of the same blue card through the BigShot with a Cuttlebug embossing folder to achieve the raised 'dots' effect and stuck that to one side of the 8x8 card blank.

Next I coloured the image using my ProMarker pens and my Derwent Watercolour pencils and some Sandodor to blend it all together.  I love the way the colinder 'helmet' and the saucepan 'shield' came out. It really looks good in the flesh!

I wish I could get the photographs to be a true depiction of the colours I have used as these look a little muted by comparison.

Anyway, it makes a nice change to make a card for a child.  I think I might have to make a male card next. I haven't done one of those for a while and I hate doing them unless I am specifically asked to make one, so I think my January CHALLENGE to myself would be to make a male birthday card.

In fact, during most of my blogs visits lately, I have noticed that almost ALL of the cards have been girlie and rarely anything for male birthdays.  I think others should be making a few male cards aswell.

I hope that you like my card and thanks once more, for stopping by.

Hugs xx

Card for FIN

Hi peeps
Me again, with yet another piccie of a card photographed on my Blackberry. Oka so I know I'm no teckie bod, but give me some credit for working out how to download them from my phone to my laptop, even if they were taken about a fortnight ago!!!! JEEEEEEES!

A friend of mine, asked me if I could make this for a friend of her husband's who is (apparently) a BIG fan of rugby. Unfortunately, unbeknown to me, when I 'googled' RUGBY BALLS to get an idea of what they looked like, it also came up with SOCCER BALLS, and who am I to know the difference??? Having never played it in my life and when I watch England play, I can hardly be blamed for not exactly watching the ball, when all those fit men, I mean legs, I mean PLAYERS are running around.

Anyway, despite my 'little' error the card was very well received and Fin was very happy with his card.

I hand drew the ball and coloured it with my Promarkers. To get the dimpled effect I went over the colour with my Blender pen and I was really pleased with how it looked.

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs

Father's Day 2011

Hello again

Another little card that I have made recently.  This is a card I made for Steve, from Lewis, for Father's Day. I know that this date falls on different dates throughout the world, but in England, we celebrated it last Sunday (19th June).

Steve really liked it and loved the Lili of the Valley stamped image that I purchased simply to use for his Father's Day card. I coloured it the exact same colour as his MAZDA RX8.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lazy Boy Card

Hello again

Another card for you.  This card was made using a Garfield Colouring page image. I was asked to make it for a friend of my husband, who is celebrating his 30th birthday today.

I coloured the image with promarker pens and then, as before, used bmy circle cutter to cut a circle around the image. I then made a slighly larger one in order to mount it onto diamond mirri card.  I used some 'water-like' DP to mount on the base and then added the 'circles' using foam pad. I then added the greeting that I printed out on my printer.

To finish the base and give the easel something to rest upon. I printed off three more fish from the image and cut them out after colouring and mounted these also with foam pads.

Thanks for stopping by, hugs xxx

TWINS!!!

Hi girls,
Just a couple of little ones today.

I made these cards for a good friend of mine, Antonina, who has twin boys, Gianni and Louis, who celebrated their 8th birthday on Friday last week.  I know that she has received them now, so I can post them onto my blog.

The digital images are from Karens Doodles and I have coloured them with ProMarkers: Denim Blue, Forest Green, Cocoa, Blush and Ivory.

This first card, for Louis, was coloured simply and added a little dotty background. Then I mounted the image onto black mirri card and then mounted it again onto a scrap piece of My Minds Eye 'Dotty Stack' designer papers.

The wording was placed beneath the image when I selected which image I wanted to print.


The second card, for Gianni, was coloured in exactly the same way, well... they are TWINS... and mounted in the same way only I used a different Karens Doodles image and different DP also from the My Minds Eye 'Dotty Stack'.

Although they are twins, I am sure that they have very different personalities, so that's why I wanted to make their cards similar but different. Hope Antonina and the boys like them.

Hope YOU like them too.

Thanks for stopping by,
Hugs, Fae xxx

Lewis' 9th Birthday

Okay, so... as promised, here is Lewis' birthday card.  Wanted to keep it really simple and cutesy and this image from Phindy is soooo Lewis!

I started by printing out the image and then coloured it with my promarkers and added the little dotty background. I then added some DP that matched the colours used (what a find as it matched perfectly and it was from my scrap stash) and then simply finished it off with a simple birthday greeting. He loved it.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs, Fae xxx

Pumpkin and Aubergine

Here's 'Pumpkin' and 'Aubergine' from my Halloween stamp collection, just goes to show you that you don't have to just use them for Halloween cards. I love these little critters. I coloured Pumpkin with my ProMarkers and coloured Aubergine with my Copics... can you tell which one is which?

I then added some grass and stamped 'Friends always' on the top. I mounted the image onto black mirri card and then mounted some black background paper onto plain white cardstock and mounted the whole thing with foam pads.

Big Love

Another male card... don't usually have this much luck with male cards but I have managed to make two in one day with these stamps.

Can't remember where I got the background paper from but it's theme is brother, father, son, mate etc. I added some gold stars mounted on foam pads (mainly because I got a smudge up there from when I stamped the image and I wanted to cover it up with something and flowers didn't seem a good choice for a male card). I then added a simple gemstone in the bottom right corner.

Bucks Fizz

Here's one of the cards I made with my new goodies. Forever Friends as below and coloured with my ProMarker pens and a white pencil to highlight certain areas. I added some glitter on the champagne 'fizz' and added some pearls and a coordinating ribbon.

Steve's Father's Day Card

This is the card I made for Steve from the children for Father's Day. He was still in hospital at the time so we wanted to cheer him up as well. We added the Skeleton leaves, flowers and gems and colour co-ordinating ribbon.