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Card Making

{btw, check out the post below to see my most recent video tutorial}

One way to make a card look more striking is to incorporate a black base into the design, and these black cards and envelopes are perfect for todays MAN-day Monday card. I didnt want the black to be overpowering or depressing, so i’ve teamed it up with some bright, vibrant cardstock.

Isn’t that little squirrel so cute! He was scurrying around on a piece of scrapbook paper, and I decided to give him pride of place on his own little card. For the text, i simply printed this out using my computer and home printer, and I thought the term ‘nutter’ would be perfect for boys, as they are always calling each other names, or making up unflattering nick names for each other!

The design is simple, so it goes to prove that you don’t have to make a complicated card for the guys, and of course you can use the same design to make other cards- Proof? – just look below…

Same design, different look. I had originally thought that this would be a ‘Hoppy Anniversary’ card, but someone wanted it as a birthday card instead.



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Thanks for joining me for another MAN-day Monday, where I share a handmade masculine card to give you some inspiration.

I’ve been going through a spat of ‘pun’ greeting cards, y’know the ones where you take advantage of the english language and play with it a little, resulting in a few cards which skirt along the border between funny and completely groan-worthy: Sending Birthday ‘fishes’, hope you’re ‘feline’ better soon…thats just two out of my massive repertoire!. 🙂

A little while back I remember Jennifer McGuire making a card that said ‘You’re plane awesome’ and when I saw this little tiny aeroplane on some scrapbook paper, I thought it would make a fantastic masculine card. I hope you don’t mind me recycling the pun you invented Jennifer.

The products I used are in the ‘in linkz’ thumbnails below – click on them to find out more.

Thanks for stopping by.



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WHAT? Where have I been?

So i know i’ve been really busy, but seriously???? How could I have missed that announcement!

As someone who has the whole collection of 36 Tim Holtz distress ink pads, imagine my shock when I stumble upon someone talking about limited edition colours! I think i actually shouted at my computer, and i frantically hit google. Geeeeez!

It turns out that Ranger have announced a limited edition trio of colours to the Distress Ink collection, especially designed with Autumnal colours. As ever, the colours are beautifully named with evocative titles: gathered twigs (a brown hue), ripe persimmon (an orange hue) and seedless preserves (a purple hue).

Tim has a great video to show us where these three colours lie in comparison to the other browns, orange and purple tones in the collection.

Check it out:

I have already placed an order – after all i can’t miss out on this limited edition set – that would mean my complete collection would once again be incomplete! If you want to get some too, you better act fast because apparently once they are gone, they are gone.

A little birdie tells me that they may be doing a winter edition as well- yipppppppppeeeeeeeeee!!

Come on postie – bring me my new distress inks to play with!

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