It was Matthew’s birthday yesterday, HAPP Y BIRTHDAY TO YOOOU!
He’s one of the guys in my team at work: a real trooper, always giving his all and eager to please, but sometimes i do feel sorry for him being significantly outnumbered by girls. We can get a bit giggly and silly at times (as most girls do!).
Matthew recently spoilt himself to a new kitchen and patio, so rather we got him a gift card for Homebase so he can buy lots of goodies to kit out the new additions to his home. We were going to get him some plants, but i really cant be trusted with those kind of decision. I don’t have a good track record of keeping plants alive.
Here’s Matthews birthday card taking centre stage in the first MAN-day Monday of 2012. Wooohoo!
I think i am in love with this alphabet stamp. A collaboration between Hero Arts and Studio Calico, and it looks like two fabulous companies can make magic when they work together. I stamped the image with frost white ink and cut some little banners to hang off some linen thread. To secure the thread in place, I wrapped the edges around mini brads and made sure to overlap the thread when I was sticking down the banners with foam adhesive.
The little Happy Birthday greeting is also from Hero Arts, one of their sparkle collections. I tend to use this one a lot because the size is so cute and dainty.
Thanks for stopping by, and tomorrow I have something exciting to share with you.
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It’s the last Monday before Christmas so it’s only fitting that for todays MANday Monday I share the card which I made for my hubs from Piper. (Sorry for the iPhone photos, the cable that connects my camera to the computer is unwell at the moment, it’s been a bit cooperative for a while, so i think its finally time to buy a new one)
I love making backgrounds with distress inks, and to add a little pazzazz I stamped a flourish backgound first and heat embossed the image using white embossing powder. Then using the ink blending tool i rubbed distress ink over the top. This is sometimes called the resist technique as the embossed image resists the ink. Its pretty cool!
To make the rolling snowy hills, I cut waves into white cardstock and then added a little touch of blue ink using the tumbled glass distress ink and a blending tool. Next I smeared Rock Candy distress stickles all over the card with my fingertip and blasted it with a heat tool. I have had this rock candy stickles for ages but havent really used it a lot, but i have fallen back in love with it! It adds lurverlay texture but its not very glittery and girly – perfect for these mens card.
Mister Snowman is from a Penny Black stamp, and he is so very cute. I embossed him in black and then coloured him in with twinkling H2Os.
The star i hand cut by folding a piece of scratch paper and cutting triangles on the fold, then I used this as a template to cut the shape out of some cardstock which I had embossed and coloured using silver ink. I mounted the whole star onto silver card to make it more robust as I knew I wanted to let it overhang the edge of the card slightly.
Do you see that little North Pole? Cute, huh? Just a strip of white cardstock with some ribbon twisted around it, and sandwiched between two red chucky buttons, stuck together with glue dots.
For the greeting I pulled out my embossing pen and simply hand wrote ‘daddy’ onto some scrap pieces of cardstock and embossed the text using white embossing powder. Once again I went to town with some distress ink and a blending tool, but this time festive berries was my colour of choice.
Thanks for stopping by. x
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Hey guys
Sorry i’ve been kinda MIA. I really needed some time to let life catch up with me, or maybe it was me catching up with life. (thats also why i must apologise for the iPhone photo – my big camera needs to be charged at some stage when i get a moment)
Today’s MAN-day Monday takes on a Christmas theme – look at this cute little mister snowman! So its not a very manly card, but it could definitely be used for a dude.
This is a stamp from a Unity Stamps kit of the month, and he is so easy to cut out, i think i will be using him A LOT. To make the card manly, I chose to use this fabulous grid stamp from Hero Arts. This is a great stamp for backgrounds, as a lot of my other background stamps are full of girly elements like flourishes and hearts. Mixed with a little kraft and some brown ink also made the colour palate a little a more masculine. I was tempted to use glitter or rock candy distress stickles for snow, but was afraid that this would make it too girly. Mister snowman looked too isolated sitting there on his own so i added a little piece of white felt for him to sit on.
Thanks for stopping by, and tomorrow I am going to be giving away some craft supplies so be sure to come back to see me.
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