Hoooooot

Well as you can probably tell there is a story behind this card! OH and his brother have this on going debate about the size of each others noses, and who has the biggest one....to be honest they both have big noses....and I get to say that 'cause I don't, anyway the pair of them are like 3 year olds rather then 39 and 43, and I just sit there listening to them shaking my head. So when it came time to make OH brothers card I asked OH what theme he would like me to do.......I shouldn't of asked.... the best of a really bad lot was something about his nose ........right, thanks for that...........

In a flash of inspiration...it was quite painful I came up with an Owl, why well in the UK a nose is also called a beak normally when you are being insulting, and I then thought of Hoot....Hooter is also a name for a nose......see I told you it was painful


This is a digistamp - from Louby Lou, which I printed out, and coloured with copics, I created the sentiment on my pc and printed that out, the DP is some of my all time favourite 'boy' themed paper - by Cosmic Cricket. The sketch is a Flashback sketch from Poetic Artistry.

So what do you think?


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Recipe:-
Stamps: Digi stamp by http://digitaldelightsbyloubyloo.wordpress.com/
Ink: n/a
Cardstock: nonbranded
Patterned Paper: Little Boys by Cosmic Cricket
Accessories: Stars unknown, copics, nestabilities

Something of a departure....

from my normal 'style' (if I even have one!) today.....and I am not sure at all about it....

I used the brilliant as always Monday sketch from Poetic Artistry , I love this layout and I will have another play when I get time, as I really am not happy with the way this card came out and I don't know which element just doesn't do it for me!
There are 13 layers on this card!

• I started off with smooth cream cardstock as the base (15cms by 10.5cms) onto which I mounted some warm brown cardstock and some dp.


• Using my Cuttlebug I cut out a large scallop circle in the same brown cardstock that I had used on the base, with a slightly smaller scalloped circle I cut out some dp in a co-ordinating pattern, and then a smaller plain circle in the cream cardstock. I stamped part of the Constellation stamp using the Rust ink and left it to dry.


• Using my Cuttlebug I cut out a small scalloped circle in the same brown cardstock that I had used on the base, with a slightly smaller scalloped circle I cut out some dp in a co-ordinating pattern, and then a smaller plain circle in the cream cardstock. I stamped the Thank You sentiment with the Coffee Bean ink and left it to dry.


• I measured up some more co-ordinating dp and mounted onto the same warm brown cardstock.


• I cut out a small strip of cream cardstock which I mounted on the same warm brown cardstock, and added two flat backed warm brownie (technical term!) pink pearls.


• I then assembled the card to match the sketch.

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Recipe
Stamps - Penny Black Constellation, HOTP
Ink - Pearlescent Rust and Coffee Bean by Brilliance
Pearls - Papermania
Bazzil Cardstock
DP - Basic Grey - Mellow
Cuttlebug, Nestabilities and 3d Zots

Poetic Artistry Sketch

Today's card is for our friend Lynn, she is a lovely lady who has two dogs, Polly and Totty, Polly is a tri-colour beagle like Monty. It was Lynns birthday yesterday, which she kept quiet, but we soon realised when we called round yesterday! lucky with a bottle of wine in hand, but since Lynn is have a bit of a time of it at the moment, Polly was diagnosed with diabetes last week, I thought I would make her a card to cheer her up......

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Recipe

Sketch - Poetic Artistry

Stamps - Printworks Great Birthday, Dovecraft

Papers - Daisy Cottage - Summer Cottage - Secret Garden and Courtyard

Cardstock - Bazzill

Ink - Brilliance - Mediterranean Blue

Time has just speeded up on me!

I don't know how but this week seems to have flown by, yet other weeks seem to go on forever!!!! I finally managed to email off my entry into a competition, it will be judged around the 1st of May so I will post my entry once that has happened...its the first one I have ever entered!

Todays card is based on this weeks sketch on Poetic Artistry, it's a wonderful blog and she makes the most amazing cards so check it out if you haven't already done so!

I simply followed the sketch on Poetic Artistry and stamped the image on white cardstock and coloured it.

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Recipe
Cardstock - Bazzill, CosmoCricket - Little Boys - Baley Blues, Little Man
Stamp - Missy B Beach Baby
Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black
Copics
Pentel Pigment Gel ink white pen

It's Snoopy!

Snoopy is an extroverted beagle with a Walter Mitty complex. He is a virtuoso at every endeavor- at least in his daydreams atop his doghouse. He regards hismaster, Charlie Brown, as "that round-headed kid" who brings him his supper dish. He is fearless though prudently cautious about "the cat next door." He never speaks- that would be one human trait too many- but he manages to convey everything necessary in facial expressions and thought balloons. A
one-man show with superior intelligence and vivid imagination, he has created
such multiple personalities as: Joe Cool, World War I Flying Ace, Literary Ace,
Flashbeagle, Vulture, Foreign Legionnaire, etc. Taken
from the official Snoopy site http://www.snoopy.com/

I loved the Peanuts crew when I was younger and when I saw that HMstamps
had Peanuts Stamps I HAD to get some! and even my Monty is a beagle so you see its ingrained!

The challenge over on Cute Card Thursday the Thursday just gone was 'Planes, trains and automobiles' and I got Snoopy already for it but then between life and the Splitcoastampers Virtual Stamp Night I wasn't able to finish him, so when I saw this weeks challenge sketch on Poetic Artistry I was sold....!

I started by stamping Snoopy and Woodstock on some smooth white cardstock, and colouring them in with Copic markers. Since the image was so bright and cheerful I went for some vibrant patterned cardstock from the Shake It Up Collection by Rubbersoul. To make sure that the image was not overwhelmed by the pattern cardstock, I matted and layered with some red cardstock and then mounted onto some beautiful green Bazzill card. I added a bit of bling in the form of 3 gems on the left hand side, and I scattered some prima blooms that had been glittered.

Thanks for checking out my blog today!

I lost me umph...and went into I can't be bothered mode...made a card...hated it ...etc etc

Anyway I started this card last night, and finished it this evening...its late for the recipent but I know she won't mind.....its very tongue in cheek!

This is a terrible scan...it looks better honest! I will take a photo tomorrow! **Picture updated!**

This card uses PaperArtistry Challenge Sketch and meeds the Caardvarks latest Purple Challenge



Recipe
Stamps - Ibrakeforstamps - Humourous Seniors and Creative Expressions for Sentiment
Paper - Anna Griffin
Copic Markers
Ink - Brilliance
Blooms - Prima
Brads - HOTP
Layout - Paper Artistry

another two cards off my list.....

But I can only show you one as one of the recipients reads this blog on a regular basis!
My oldest brother (he is 11 years older then me) has a birthday on the 9th of March, he is just like my dad was....a grump ....hmm I think it might be a family thing !:) He pretends that he is all hard and not bothered by things but I know that he will be chuffed to get card from me...he wont expect one, not because I dont send them to him normally I do, but he just doesn't expect people to remember his birthday!

As there is a bit of an age gap and the fact that he went off to boarding school as a teenager means that we didnt really spend much of our childhood together, and him being the oldest and me the youngest (there are 6 of us) he thinks I got away with murder (I did) and I think he is an old fart who is just jealous *wink* . I just think that by the time I got to my teenage years my parents had brought up 5 teenagers, they had seen everything, so they were way more relaxed about stuff and knew that if they just let me do stuff it wouldn't be as appealing as if they told me I couldn't!lol

Recipe
Layout from a sketch at Paper Artistry
main Stamp - Ibrakeforstamps
sentiment stamp- Hot off the press
Patterned cardstock - DCWV Nana's Kids
Brad - making memories
Copic Markers
Cuttlebug - Happy Birthday Embossing