Birthday Suited

This very blue card is heading off to a colleague for his birthday, hence all the manly blues and no embellies.  It features 1920’s Kody from Some Odd Girl.

I’ve cropped Kody to fit the sketch, which is the July sketch challenge one from the Some Odd Girl blog.  I keep going to Kody when I need a stylish male card, he is just perfectly dapper.  The sketch was a good fit too with lots of clean lines to it and I finally got to use some of my Washi tape too!

This card features four layers (I love adding layers of paper, makes cards nice and heavy and substantial!) and a 1920’s gentleman so I’m entering it in the Crafts-Too Challenge You era with layers twist challenge.  And as it is most definitely a birthday card (I’m not much for sentiments on the front of my cards!) I’m also entering it at Word Play Saturday where the theme is birthdays.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53

Eyes E23, E25, E27, 0

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Belt BV25, B29

Belt Buckle & Buttons Spica Silver

Shirt BV20, 0

Tie BV20, BV23, BV25

Vest & Pants B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

Dies

Spellbinders Nestabilities 5x7 Matting Basics

Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Squares

Paper

Bazzill Cardstock – Blue

Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman – Dressed to the Nines

Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman – The Sophisticate

Tape

Gorjuss Patterned Craft Tape

Stamp

Some Odd Girl 1920’s Kody

Challenges

Crafts-Too Challenge You – Choose a Decade or Era & Twist 2 Add 3 or More Layers

Some Odd Girl – July Sketch Challenge

Word Play Saturday – July Challenge Birthdays

Thanks for stopping by!

Still Call Australia Home

My card today features UK Betty a retired stamp from Simply B Stamps all in red, white and blue.

I’ve drawn in some white stars in a very bad Southern Cross formation to turn her into an Australian Betty as this card is heading to a colleague who is going to work overseas for 12 months.  It’s to remind him that Australia is home and therefore he has to come back!

I followed a sketch from Die Cuttin’ Diva’s Challenge Blog that resembled the Australia flag too.  The challenge also called for a die cut, I didn’t have a star die so I cut a Spellbinders’ pennant shape seven times to make a Federation Star (the sixth star on the Australian flag).

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks E11)

Lips RV25, RV63

Dies & Embossing Folders

Spellbinders Nested Pennants

Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles

Papers

Close to My Heart Pemberley Blue cardstock

Papermania Portobello Road

Stamps

Simply B Stamps UK Betty (retired)

Challenges

Chocolate, Coffee and Cards Challenge #42 – 4th of July

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 276 – Stars and/or Stripes

Die Cuttin’ Diva’s Challenge #122 – You’re a Star Sketch

Digi Haven – Red, White and Blue Challenge

QKR Stampede Challenge#46 – Rock the Red, White and Blue

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Keeping time, time, time…

In a sort of Runic rhyme

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

From the cogs, cogs, cogs

OK, so that’s not quite how Edgar Allan Poe’s verse goes but this is a Simply Steampunk Challenges' project and features lots of cogs but no bells.

It’s challenge time over Simply Steampunk Challenges and this month’s theme is clocks / timepieces.  So of course I needed to make an actual clock, my lounge room walls needed some Steampunking and how better than with this awesome image from Simply B Stamps, Rio Portrait, by artist Abigail Larson.

Head on over to Simply Steampunk Challenges and check out all the details – you have until 4 July to get your Steampunk on, don’t let time get away from you!

I’m also entering this into the Crazy Amigo Challenge's Distress inks or stains or pens or embossing powder challenge (I’ve got distress stain and embossing powder covered), Through the Craftroom Door's Anything goes challenge, Left of Center's LOC theme (Steampunk) challenge, and Crafting When We Can's Punches and/or die cuts challenge (loads of spider web die cuts used).

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53 (cheeks E11)

Lips R46, R59, R89

Eyes E23, E25, E27, 0

Hair E08, E19, E23, E25, E27

Shirt & Bow N0, N1, N2, N4, N6

Skull Y23, Y26, Y28, Spica Clear

Spider Spica Black

Web N1, Spica Clear

Clock

Jonathon Knowles Clock Company clock mechanism and hands

Twiddleybitz Steampunk Clock

Dies

Memory Box Spider Web Frame

Inks & Powders etc

ColorBox pigment ink – Platinum

Diamond Glaze

Distress Stain – Black Soot

Pebbles cream chalk

Perfect Pearls – Heirloom Gold

Perfect Pearls – Pewter

Ranger embossing powder – Clear

Rub’nBuff – Pewter

StazOn – Forest Green

Twiddleybitz Rusting Powder

Stamps

Papermania Chronology Cogs
Simply B Stamps Rio Portrait

Quote (or in this case, misquote)

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Bells

Challenges

Crafting When We Can Punches and/or die cuts challenge

Crazy Amigo Challenge’s Distress inks or stains or pens or embossing powder challenge

Left of Center LOC theme (Steampunk) and bling it up / sparkle

Through the Craftroom Door’s Anything goes challenge

Thanks for stopping by!

Fashionably Late

This card is fashionably late for a friend’s birthday, well, so the card is late and the image is sporting a bit of 1920’s fashion.  He’s 1920’s Kody from Some Odd Girl.  I followed the sketch at April's sketch challenge over at the Some Odd Girl blog.

As this card is for a guy I kept it pretty simple and just used the elements from the sketch as the embellishments.  I didn’t have a stamp that would fit in the pennant diecuts so I just used some rub-ons for the ‘HbB’, which stands for Happy belated Birthday.

Ingredients

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E02

Eyes E33, E35, E37

Hair E21, E23, E27, E29

Clothes C-1, C-3, C-5, C-7, 100, Y28, Colourless Blender, Spica Black and Gold

Dies

Spellbinders Pennants

Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Eighteen

Embellishments

Making Memories Rub-ons Alphabet

Creative Memories stickers

Ribbon from my stash

Papers

DCWV Garden Party Matstack

Stamps

Some Odd Girl 1920’s Kody

Stampin’ Up Happiest Birthday Wishes

Challenges

Some Odd Girl April sketch challenge

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my card :-)