I love the image on this card, it harks back to when children could be children and the health and safety mad world was not even on the horizon!

Our friends little boy was turning 3 and he is a real 'boy' into everything and anything and outside exploring.....



so proud of his new friend!

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Recipe:-
Stamps: High Hopes
Ink: Memento
Cardstock: Craftworks
Patterned Paper: Trimcraft
Accessories:Prismacolour pencils, ribbon, nestabilities, and some gems

Vrom...vrom

I have talked about this before, I know, I know its a sign of old age to repeat yourself but I can't help myself but I find if I am to focus and get some crafting done I have to limit my choices....and I know I am privileged that I have the option of choice...the problem is that I have toooooo much of it and I can't make a decision and I spend hours looking, stroking, wondering, deciding, putting back and not doing anything

So I went to where my lovely Dp is located in my craft room, took out some scrapbooking paper that I had acquired earlier in the year that was to nice to use, I then headed over to all my stamps and randomly picked some packs of new stamps that have never been touched with ink....and said to myself ....USE THEM

and this is the result...............


The DP is from CollagePress.com Tell Your Story and the collection is called Seeds, it is double sided cardstock and it is beautiful visually as well as to use. The base card is 5ins cream square card, I also used some forest green cardstock from Bazzill (this is lush, its textured on one side and smooth on the other). The dino and the sentiment are from Woodware - Dino Friends and are both stamped using as usual for me Graphite Black Brilliance ink. The Dino was stamped on some white cardstock, coloured using Copics, cut out and mounted onto some 3d foam. You may also be able to see that I have used one of my Cuttlebug embossing folders on the green piece that goes the width of the card to give some more dimension. The overall layout is from this weeks sketch challenge over on Splitcoastampers, you can check out the sketch and the wonderful cards here.

Over on the wonderful Arty Girlz Challenge blog this week the challenge is make a male/man card and I think my card qualifies! again another great place to check out for great cards and designs, you can find it here

....there was something in the water ...

...back in September/October time last year because I have another baby boy card to send out...luckily it would appear that this 'outbreak' was confined to the South East of the UK and didn't spread northwards.

I used the sketch that Gina K provided on her site in the last few days which you can find Here. She is/was running a competition with this sketch if you used any of her wonderful stamps. I am lucky enough to own a set of Gina's stamps but I really liked the sketch and I neeeeeeeeded to get this card done, so I decided to forgo the competition and just use the sketch as the set I have is not appropriate for new baby boys!

I stamped the image onto some smooth white cardstock, coloured in using some of my copic markers (looking at it now I should have gone a bit lighter on the colours of the image). Using my Cuttlebug I cut the image out with a scalloped edged diecutter, while I still had the Cuttlebug out on my workspace, I cut out a slightly bigger oval in a cream cardstock which I embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder. I am not sure if you can see from the picture but I also embossed two rows of dots along the DCWV patterned paper just below the ovals, this was done using my new set of border embossing folders from Cuttlebug. The remainder of the card is created by following Gina's sketch, and I added 3 buttons on the folded back piece and a pram embellishment in the corner. I have to say I loved these DCWV designed card when I saw them and they are beautiful to use, such delicate colours for a baby boy....I also have the girls version

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Recipe
Stamp - Nellies' Choice - Kiddies baby
Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black
Copics
Card - Nana's Nursery - Baby Boy - Die Cuts with a View
Buttons- Making Memories
Embellishment - Papermania
Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots folder and Dots border folder
Nestabilities - Oval and Scalloped Oval

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