Simply Stampin' Theme Week

Good morning!!!

I hope you are up early and ready to check out the new challenge over at Simply Stampin'.

It's a theme week this week so lets see what you can come up with for..... Perfect Pairs!!

So basically we want to see two of something, if you need a little nudge to get your creative juices flowing why not check out what the fabulous Design Team have come up with!!

But before you run off and leave me, here's what I did with this weeks theme.

I decided the pair up two of the motorcycle, as I needed to make a commissioned men's card for a friends brother. This uses a technique called 'Masking', all you have to do is stamp your image, then stamp it again onto a sticky post-it note, cut around your image and place this over the top of you first image, stamp again and voilà! Two motorcycles stamped to look like they are staggered together!!

Why don't you give this technique a try, and don't forget it upload your project for the challenge, I'd love to see how you get on!

Happy crafting, xx

Paper Players Masculine Map

Hello again,

Twice in one day! This is becoming a bit of a habit, and with not much planned for the bank holiday weekend I can see more to come in the next few days. This time I'm playing along with a sketch set by The Paper Players, the sketch is a simple one but after trying to stay very simple (this one is on my desk and needs much, much more work!) I went with a bit more detail, I love layers so I had to put a few in this card.

Here is the sketch I have used for the card

I have swapped the three circular elements for a design split into three portions, I have done this before with an image but have seen it done a few times, I thought it was quite effective with the motorcycle image, I used a piece of paper from the Newsprint DSP which features a map, and the green band and repeated sentiment have come from the Plane and Simple set.

So glad that I managed to complete a card that I liked for this challenge, it's no fun when you finish something only to look at it and not really like it. I'm sure many of you will know what I mean, we are our own worst critic sometimes.

Hope you have fun plans for the weekend,  xx

Beautiful biker

Hi there,

Well yesterday I promised to pop back today and post a card, as here I am, and here's the card

This is one of the samples that I made up for my demo party last week. It uses a brand new a la carte stamp caller Motorcycle, I have teamed this with another brand new product, glass glitter! This chunky glitter ages slightly with time to give it an aged effect, so it's perfect for men's cards and vintage styles too.

I have spritzed the background to give a textured look to the Real red base, and teamed this with Chocolate chip, and basic black. Also as an added extra I have applied glossy accents to the red sections of the bike to make them really shiny.

Hope you like it
xx