I would walk 500 miles!

This is the birthday card I made for my husband. Next month he is going off for five days walking with a couple of friends. They are tackling the Cotswold Way starting at Bath. The background image on my card is the start marker stone in Bath.

Materials used:

Mo's Digital Pencil - Adventure Guy 

X-Press It card

kraft card

dark brown card

5" x 7" card blank

Copic pens:

skin - E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R20

trousers - BG90, BG93, BG96, BG99

coat - E84, E87, E89

backpack - B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

hat - W1, W3, W5, W7, W9   C5, C7, C9, 100

hair - E35, E37

shirt - B00, B01, B02

map - E40, E41, E42, E43, E44

torch and shoes -  C0, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9

water bottle - C0, C1, C3, C5   BG90, BG93, BG96, BG99

compass - C0, C1, C3, C5  Blender

ground - E41, E43, E44, E47

The Cotswold Way marker stone is printed onto card, cut out and used as the background. The image has been coloured in then cut out with a narrow white border before attaching to the front of the card.

Tim and his friends are not actually walking 500 miles but they are planning to cover quite a lot of ground in the five days. Hopefully the weather will be as good as it has been in previous years when they have embarked on other long distance walks. As my walking days are over now I get almost a week to play without having to stop to cook meals or do housework. I am planning on getting quite a lot of projects off the ground. Fun time ahead for all!

Thanks for dropping in. Take care.

Pippa

Entering the following challenges:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #106 - Anything Goes 

A Gem of A Challenge #9 - Anything Goes 

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge #279 - Anything Mo Goes 

Crafty Friends Challenge #110 - Anything Goes 

Allsorts Challenge #520/1 - Birthday 

Jo's Scrap Shack FFC #282 - Anything Goes 

A Bit More Time To Craft #92 - Anything Goes 

A Perfect Time To Craft #5 - Anything Goes 

Crafts Galore Encore #63 - Anything Goes 

Not Just Cards #May - Anything Goes 

Your Scrapbook Place #May - Anything Goes 

Creative Fingers #164 - Anything Goes 

Crafting With An Attitude #51 - Anything Goes 

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #430 - Anything Goes 

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #234 - Birthdays 

Engaging Times

Just before Valentine's Day my neice announced her engagement to her long-standing boyfriend, catching everyone by surprise! I think she was surprised as well. When Mo from Mo's Digital Pencil very generously gave her Facebook fans a free image for Valentine's Day I knew I had the perfect occassion to use it.


Materials used:Mo's Digital Pencil - Lemur Love
metalic striped designer paper
black card
silver and gold mirri card
X-Press It card
Copic pens
white acrylic paint
white A5 card blank
acrylic greeting stamp
black archival ink pad
heart gem
circle cutter

The lemurs are printed on X-Press It card and coloured with Copics then fussy cut. The matting and layering is made with circles of black, silver and gold mirri card on a piece of metalic striped paper.

The greeting is stamped on with black ink and the gem added to the middle.
The young couple have not announced a date yet but everyone is looking forward to it and hope it is sooner rather than later.

Thanks for dropping in. Take care.

Pippa

Entering the following challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks #390 - Lots of Layers
Crafty Gals Corner #159 - Add A Heart
Little Red Wagon #443 - Luuurve
Inspiration Destination #144 - Anything Goes/Real Stamp
A Bit More Time To Craft Extra - February Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft #62 - Anything Goes
Artistic Inspirations #193 - Anything Goes
Unicorn Challenge #29 - Love/Valentines
My Time To Craft #364 - Love Is All We Need
Simply Papercraft #54 - Anything Goes

The Challenge For Every Crafter

It's the start of a new month, a new year and a new challenge at Love to Craft. As always it is an anything goes in the widest sense of the term. So whatever your craft is this challenge is for you.

Because I am primarily a card maker, this time I want to share with you the Christmas card I made for my husband. I usually go for a more traditional religious image but saw this one and knew I had to use it. When we moved into our retirement home one of the first things we did was to replace the condemned gas fire with a log burning stove. We share the log fetching duties but not equally, Tim gets the lions share of the work!



Materials used:Mo's Digital Pencil - Carrying the Wood
Docrafts - Christmas Greeting (not sure if it is still available)
X-Press It card
green glitter card
A5 card blank
Cosmic Shimmer Glitter Jewels - Diamond Sprinkles
Copic pens
black archival ink pad

The image is printed on X-Press It card and coloured with Copics. The snow is made using Collall Tacky Glue quite thickly then sprinkled with Dimond Sprinkles. The glue kept it's dimension adding to the snow effect.

The image is trimmed to size, matted onto green sparkly card and attached to the card front. The greeting is stamped on in black.

The challenge at Love to Craft runs for the month so you have plenty of time to join in the fun. Remember we are an all-crafts challenge blog and welcome any and all kinds of handmade creations - from cards, tags, ATCs and scrapbook layouts - to 3-D projects, mixed media canvases and altered projects - and even knitting, crocheting, quilting and jewelry-making! Whatever you're working on, we want to see it!

Thanks for dropping in. Take care.

Pippa

Entering the following challenges:Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes January
That's Crafty - Anything Goes 
Crafty Gals Corner #155 - Anything Goes
Di's Digi Challenge - Celebrations
Hiding In My Craft Room #333 - Freestyle
A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge #01 - Anything Goes January
A Bit More Time To Craft #59 - Anything Goes
A Bit More Time To Craft Extra - January Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination #140 - Anything Goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #72 - Anything Goes
A Gem Of A Challenge #209 - Anything Christmas Goes
613 Avenue Create #204 - Anything Goes/ optional twist Christmas/Winter
4 Crafty Chicks #383 - Glitter

Birthday card for a computer mad brother

Cards for men are notoriously tricky, even more so if you want to personalise them in some way.  My youngest brother has one passion in life, just the one, computers. His job is computers and his hobby is computers. So when I found 'Computer Guy' from Mo's Digital Pencil I knew I had to use it.

 

 

 

 

 

Materials  used:
Mo's Digital Pencil digi stamp - Computer guy
Kraft card
snippet of brown card
happy birthday stamp
sepia archival ink pad
stamping card
Spectrum Noir and Copic pens

Method:
I printed out the image onto stamping card and coloured it in with the pens. I then tore around it to make the panel. I printed out repeating binary code for 'happy birthday' on a piece of kraft card and trimmed it slightly smaller than the card blank; also made from kraft card. Using the brown ink I stamped 'happy birthday' on the right hand side of a strip of brown card and attached it across the card front. I then attached the image.

I actually printed off two copies of the image and made up the other one using black and white background colours.

 

Thank you for visiting. Take care.

Pippa

I would like to enter this card into:
Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge - Anything Goes
Your Scrapbook Place February Challenge - Anything Goes