Goal!!

Good morning,

I'm sharing another masculine card today, this one uses the Goal stamp set, I have used it here for backgrounds as well as the main focus.

I stamped the football in black onto the black CS (sorry I don't think you can see it in this photo), and the 'goal' greeting along the white section, and a strip of Pacific Point. I then stamped and popped up three footballs and added the greeting at an angle. Little tip, make sure you check with team the guy supports before you make up your card, I nearly went for red, which apparently wouldn't have been good, who knew?!

Happy Stampin', xx

Fancy Some Footie?

Good Morning,

Well I'm back as promised with another men's card, this time using the fab little set Goal, This card was quite quick to make once I'd got myself organised and decided what colours to use.

I randomly stamped the greeting (at least I suppose it's a greeting) all over the background piece, then cut three pieces and stamped the football in different positions, again stamping the greeting, the most difficult bit was the 'grass' which is a strip of card stock that I cut into from one side then sponged with Old Olive ink, and popped these pieces up on dimensionals.

I'd love to know what you think of my masculine attempts
xx

Step aside!

Hi there,

At the weekend I made a side stepper card, it took several attemps by me and my boyfriend to get the measurements right. I work in cm and I found that I could find instructions on-line in inches, but my trimmer doesn't have inches on it, and when I tried to convert the measurements it came out crooked. So I thought there must be others who have wanted to make a step stepper but don't work in inches, and  decided I'd do my first tutorial.

For this card I started with an A4 piece of Night quite navy CS, and scored the whole card before cutting.
Here are the measurements

You can flip it around if you'd like the stepped half on the opposite side.
Here is a picture of the folds

The measurements for the patterned pieces are

• 14.5cm x 9 cm
• 10.5cm x 7cm
• 10.5cm x 4cm
• 10.5cm x 2.5cm

If you'd like the matt and layer the patterned pieces reduce each measurement by 0.5cm (eg 14cm x 8.5cm) and layer onto CS cut to the above sizes.
I was asked to make this card for a friend's husband using a footbll theme, so out came my Goal stamp set again.

Here's my recipe
Stamps, Goal
Paper, Not quite navy CS, Pacific point CS, Wild wasabi CS (trimmed to look like grass), Very vanilla CS
Ink, Chocolate chip
Accessories, alphabet stickers (from my non SU stash)

Hope you have a go at this type of card, please let me know how you get on if you do. xx

Goal!

Hey there,

Like every crafter I love any excuse to buy new products. So when I was asked by a lady at work to make an 18th birthday card for her son with a football theme, it was the perfect excuse to buy the Goal stamp set.
I'm sure that it will come in handy in the future, and I was really happy with how the finished card came out.

What do you think?

I used a piece of old olive which I cut to make a grass football pitch, And I really liked the background with the football and goal 'sentiment'. I normally dread being asked to make boys/mens cards but this one was really fun to do.

Here's the recipe
Stamps, Goal
Paper, Whisper white, Old olive, Pacific point, Not quite navy
Ink, Chocolate chip
Accessories, sponge dauber, dimensionals, alphabet letters (from my pre-SU stash)

Have a great evening xx