Teenage boys Graffitti Card

I LOVED making this card, I cannot take credit for the idea, it came from watching someone on Create and Craft, but it was so easy and a lot of fun to make.

The background was made by distress inking through a brick stencil, then the words stamped on using Woodware Graffiti stamp set and coloured with promarkers. Ink was splatted onto the background too.
The tiny sneakers are also a Woodware stamp set, which I stamped onto shrink plastic and heated, THEN coloured using promarkers and white gel pen. The greeting on the tag is also part of the Woodware sneaker stamp set. The sneakers on the tag are dangling loose, the other pair are adhered using double sided tape.

My 11 year old son said he would be happy to receive this card...he doesnt often say that about my work!!

Male Lighthouse Card

This card was actually quite quick to make, and usually I struggle with masculine cards, but this just seemed to "flow" really easily. Its also a stamped image, which I havnt done for quite some time.

The stamped image is from a Kanban Stamp set, and I coloured it using water based pens and my water brush pen.
I cut a frame in white card using Spellbinders labels dies and another in blue card using Spellbinders ovals dies. Foam tape was added to the back of the blue frame to give some depth.

I was going to add some more embellishments or sentiment, but it didnt seem to work well so I'm leaving this card blank just as it is.

Some bits through my Letterbox

A couple of weeks ago I must have been on a lucky streak and won a couple of prizes and this is what came through my letterbox:

First up was a Tag Challenge hosted by Helen over at A Crafty Kind of Truffle, in which I won the June Challenge and the fab prizes that fell through my letterbox were:

Secondly I was lucky and Won on the Banana Frog Blog Hop! I was lucky enough to choose any stamp set I like, and after much deliberation I went for Butterflies and Swirls.

Quick Anniversary card

This card was made for my Mum and Step-Dads 2nd Wedding anniversary.

The paper is from Paperchase and it is like a fabric with embossed patterns over and has an irridescent shimmer to it. (its very hard to catch on photo)

The labels are Nestibilities labels stamped with Kanban sentiments.