Fathers Day too!

This is the second of my Fathers Day Cards. This one is for my FIL. He's a big Country and Western fan, and I thought this image fit the occassion quite well:

See what I mean - very C & W...

This is a colouring page image! Really love it.

Ingredients:

Image: Colouring Page

Medium: Promarkers & Distressing Inks

Papers & CS: From stash

Embellishments: Leaf Brads from stash

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

ICS Challenge 118 

CRAFT Challenge 106 - Fathers Day

The Crazy Challenge No 70 - Fathers Day

Craft Us Crazy Challenge 10 - Fathers Day/Masculine Theme

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking once again and for your comments

Lxx

Fathers Day 19th June!!

Soooo - that means I have 3 cards to make... hubby, FIL and my own wee Dad.

I bought a new stamp from Stamp Addicts at the Art Stamp Craft Fair at the Corn Exchange in Edinburgh (along with some other goodies - welll would be rude not to). This was for my dad's card as he was an engineer in the shipbuilding industry for years, before it all started to fade away, but he still has a passion for ships.

Here's the card:

Isn't that just the most gorgeous stamp of a galleon? I think so!

Love this sentiment, just says it all really...

Ingredients:
Image: Galleon from Stamp Addicts
Sentiment: Near the sea... - bought from E-bay, Fathers Day - Elsybells
Papers & CS: From stash
Medium: Distress Inks - Antique Linen & Brushed Corduroy
Embellishments: Card Candy, anchor charm and silver brad, gingham ribbon, black twine

I'd like to enter the above card in the following challenges:
Sweet Sketch Wednesday (followed their sketch) - A Sweet Sketch
The Crazy Challenge No. 70 - Fathers Day
TLT Challenge 31 - It's All About the Males
Craft us Crazy Challenge 10 - Fathers Day or Masculine Theme
Creative Inspirations Challenge 115 -  Card forDad/Man in your Life
Sparkles Forum Challenge No 13 - Fathers Day
CRAFT Challenge 106 - Fathers Day
Crafty Cardmakers Challenge 47 - Love the Lasting Kind

Off to enjoy what's left of the glorious sunshine of today!!

Thanks again for looking and any comments you leave!

Lxx

Keep It Simple - Thank You

Over at KIS this week they are looking for thank you cards, but like they say in their title - you have to Keep It Simple.

This is the card I have made for the challenge:

The card has been coloured with Tim Holtz Distressing Inks in Spiced Marmalade and Worn Lipstick. The triangle is made using post it notes and the same inks as before. The stamped image is by Penny Black and the sentiment is from a Marie Curie Cancer Care stamp set. The two little black bits of bling are from Kanban. That's it - very simple. I must admit I struggled not to add anything else - maybe just a wee swirly stamp, but I refrained!

My Wee Cousins is now a Mrs

Morning from a beautiful sunny Beith.

My wee cousin got married in Montreal, Canada. I couldn't manage to go to the wedding, as much as I would have loved to as a Scottish/Greek wedding sounds like a fantastic excuse for a party! I used to babysit Nicola when she was ickle and I can't believe she's married, where did those years go (answers on a postcard please :oD)?

This is the card I made for Nic and her new hubby Tim.

The stamp is from Lily of the Valley . I just love these kiddies dressed up in wedding togs. It reminds me of when I was little, trying on my mum's wedding dress and imagining that it was my big day!

I coloured the back ground of the image with Worn Lipstick Distressing ink and coloured the image with my Promarkers. The papers are from My Minds Eye that I got as a freebie with a magazine. I added two wee flowers to the top left and bottom right corners and little pearls to the centres to finish them off.

I love this little sentiment from Elzybells which I cut out freehand and inked up with the distressing ink and mounted to match the background.

I don't know where I got this little bow from, but it's so cute I wish I could remember. I added ribbon in the same colours as the bow and mounted the bow on the bottom left of the card.

Well that's it - the newly married's are in Peru at the moment on Honeymoon. I wish them all the best for their future together and hope they end up old wrinkly married's!

Lxx

2nd post today - My wall hanging for The Geordieland Craft Meet!

Yes - it's me again. Unheard of - posting twice in the one day LOL.

Ross is now awake so this will be a quick one. Then I will be off to stop him destroying what is left of the house!

Below is a wall hanging that I have made to swap at a craft meet in Geordieland. I met some ladies through Docrafts website chat forum and this will be our 3rd meet. Cazro kindly arranges this meet, where we have breakfast and then CRAFT ALL DAY! Isn't that good. We have demos that some of the crafters organise and we get to learn lots of new things. it's on 11th September and I can't wait!




The wall hanging was made with some inspiration from Craft Stamper Magazine (for which I have a wee subscription heehee). I'm quite please with it and I hope whoever receives it at the meet will also like it too. The frame is made from mountboard and painted with acrylic paints. I then stamped a crackle effect onto it and then coloured again with alcohol inks.


The first square is a stamp from Prima Go Green Concepts. I glossy accented the dragonfly and added a dragonfly brad and a flower brad that has been coloured with alcohol inks.



The second square is a Crafty Individuals image that I coloured with distressing inks then glossy accented the flower. I then added a fragment (which is stained on the back with distresing ink). I added some glitter to the outside of the image and scraped some back off to distress it a bit. I then added some shells that I got for free from Sands of Luce beach in Stranraer (don't you just love nature).

The third square is a jolee that I found in my craft drawer. I have distressed it with distressing inks and added some gems.

The fourth square is again a Crafty Individuals image coloured witrh distressing inks and glossy accented. I then used alcohol inks on a slide mount and added some gems to the slide mount once dry. I placed the image into the slide mount and added it to the frame, then added some flowers with little gems for their centres.

The fifth square is a sentiment that has been distressed and coloured with alcohol inks. I then adherd it to the frame and adhered some gem stones to the frame (also free from nature - same place as above:oD) with silicon glue.

Last but not least, the sixth square. It again is a Craft Individuals image. I have coloured it with distressing inks and glossy accented the floer. The key is a stamp from Prima Go Green Concepts, which I have again glossy accented. I then added some gems to finish it off.

I'm really please with the way it has turned out.

I'm off now. Hope to get some time this avo to do a few crafty bits n bobs.

See you soon I hope!

Lxx