Monday, 6 July 2009

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...........Smiley from millan.net

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 painfulSmiley from millan.net


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


Saturday, 4 July 2009

Happy 4th of July

Firstly Happy 4th July to all my American friends and blog readers! I hope you have a great day of celebration!

Animation from millan.net

Secondly Happy Birthday Treak Smiley from millan.net


and Finally.....our passports arrived back from the Canadian High Commission this morning, with our shiney new Canadian Visas in them, now OH and I can celebrate


Birthday Wishes


Happy Birthday Treak
I was dilly dallying yesterday on SCS, and sorting photos getting them ready for this blog etc and I started to get things ready for this post......and then I looked at the time and realised that in my hand was the card I am going to show you today....and the post was going to be collected from the post box in about 45 mins....and if I didn't get it in that box there was no chance that Treak would get it in time for her birthday! The air turned blue, I turned into a sprint runner (not a pretty sight!)....and made it just in time


There is a thread on SCS about people who are like me and collect lots of dp and don't urm use it...so I decided I would make a special effort in honour of Treak and use some dp I had never used before.....this is so spangly and new it was still in it's wrapper...and I used 3 different dps from the collection...

The layout is this weeks sketch challenge on SCS SC234, I stamped and coloured the image, adding a bit of extra glitter on the sea to catch the light.



I used my American Craft Glitter Marker but I found that it rubbed the card, I would say almost to the point of going through the card, has anyone got these markers and had the same problem?


I used some of the dp from the front on the inside to carry the theme through.





So what do you think?


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Recipe:-
Stamps: Inkadinkado - Chelsea Sentiments, Only a Kid Once
Ink: Momento
Cardstock: DCWV
Patterned Paper: DCWV - Grade School
Accessories: Prismacolor pencils, gamasol, copics, American Craft glitter marker- pure glitter, stickles