Anyone who does not watch rugby league is not a real person…

…guess that means I’m an alien

It’s my nephew’s birthday shortly and, as he loves his footie, I’ve made a card using Just Ink Lined’s Rugby Six Nations.

Now technically rugby isn’t the same as league (OK, so more than technically) but I couldn’t find a league digi nor could I find a player digi, there was a sweet rubber stamp of a boy diving for the line (again I think it was a rugby player) but I didn’t have the time for it to make it here from the UK.  So I just went with this one figuring that the boots and the ball are fairly similar, so says this self-confessed football ignoramus!

My nephew plays in his local club, the Narromine Jets, so I went with their colours and also printed out and fussy cut their logo and adhered it over the 6 nations that was printed on the ball.  I’m so ignorant of all things footie I actually had to look up what you call the thingie the ball sits on when they go to kick it!  Despite all this I think my card turned out quite nicely.

The layout is from the current sketch over at Sketch Saturday, which was nice and CAS and allowed me to layer up the yellow, orange and red that are the Jets’ colours.  I didn’t have any black tape so I used some tape measure one as I do know the field is marked out at various points and the commentators are always talking about the such and such metre line.  The Tim Holtz Typed Tokens’ set had just the perfect word for this card ‘play’ and I used a Star Fastener, also from Tim Holtz, to attach it as a nod to the way we speak of sports stars.

Over at Cardz 4 Guyz they are looking for football crazy themed cards, I’ve certainly got that covered with this card so I am entering it over there.  At Inkspirational their challenge features the word prompt ‘space’, something the card layout I chose allows a lot of, not to mention all that space on a footie field they have to measure out in metres so I am also entering my card in their challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Ball R 27, R29, R46, R59, Y02, Y06, Y08, Y19, YR07, YR09, YR14, YR16

Boots N5, N7, N9, R 27, R29, R46, R59, W5, W7, W9, Y02, Y06, Y08, Y19, YR07, YR09, YR14, YR16, 100

Grass G05, G16, G19, G28

Kicking Tee T5, T7, T9, 100

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Fasteners ~ Star Fasteners

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings ~ Typed Tokens

Papers

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Sunbeam

Bazzill Orange Peel Cardstock ~ Orange Juice

Bazzill Smoothies Cardstock ~ Cherry Splash

Ribbons & Trims etc

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie ~ Tissue Tape Laboratorie

Stamps

Just Ink Lined ~ Rugby Six Nations

Challenges

Cardz 4 Guyz #67 ~ Football Crazy

Inkspirational #81 ~ Word Prompt: Space

Sketch Saturday ~ Week #358

 

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Dinah my dear!

One of my nieces is turning seven shortly and I’ve made a cute card featuring Jules from Saturated Canary for her.

I bought this image because it reminded me of Alice and I am huge Alice in Wonderland fan so I had to colour her up to look like Alice.  I also picked my designer paper with Alice in Wonderland in mind with the mushrooms a nod to the wise caterpillar who offers Alice sage advice.  While the book doesn’t feature a view master I thought it was a fitting way to bring in the circle element from the current sketch at Just Add Ink as Alice’s adventures would make the perfect subject of a view master wheel.

As this card has been very much inspired by Alice in Wonderland I am entering it in the current challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks.  I don’t know much about cats to know if you need a black cat to produce black and white kittens (Lewis Carroll never describes poor Dinah but we do know she had a black and white kitten) so I went for a grey one rather than the reddy brown one Disney used.  With Jules’ sweet kitty on my card I am also entering it in the current challenge at Jo’s Scrap Shack as fitting the whiskers criteria.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes V17, V20

Lips E02

Hair Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Outfit B00, B02, B04, B06, C00, N0, N1, N2

Shoes N5, N7, N9, 100

Cat BV000, BV00, BV20, R00, R01, R02, W4, W6, W7

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Little Darlings Die ~ Lovely View

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Mowed Lawn & Salty Ocean

Papers

13@rts Faces of Spring ~ In Your Eyes

Bazzill ~ Jetstream

BoBunny Enchanted Garden ~ Fairies

Creative Memories Designer Cardstock ~ Candy Shoppe

Ribbons & Trims etc

Lace scraps from stash

Stamps

Saturated Canary ~ Jules

Challenges

4 Crafty Chicks #243 ~ Inspired By a Book

Jo’s Scrap Shack #85 ~ “Bunny Ears, Whiskers & Puppy Dog Tails”

Just Add Ink #260 ~ Sketch

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...I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times

I’ve got a CAS card to share today featuring Martial Arts Boy, from Kenny K, made for a friend’s birthday.

Given the discipline of karate I thought a restrained monochromatic card would best suit the image and the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches was perfect.  I made the two horizontal elements into my sentiment, which I printed straight on to my base cardstock.  I put a second piece of card behind my image just to add a bit more interest with the black border.

I think the pop of yellow works well too, I went with that colour as my friend recently got his yellow belt in karate.  He takes his youngest daughter, a sweetie who is about to turn six, to karate so figured he’d learn too and he loves it hence featuring it on his card.

Clean and simple is the current theme over at Cute Card Thursday so I am entering my card there.  Over at the Male Room they are looking for letters, which I have on my card in my sentiment and it is for a male so I’m also entering their challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21

Eyes E30, E35, E37, 0

Lips E11

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Outfit C00, N0, N1, N2, Y02, Y06, Y08, Y19

Papers

Core’dinations Smooth Cardstock ~ Black Cat & Great White

Stamps

Kenny K ~ Martial Arts Boy

Challenges

Cute Card Thursday #370 ~ Clean & Simple!

Freshly Made Sketches ~ Sketch #183

The Male Room #8 ~ Using Letters and/or Numbers

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…how or where it starts…

My card today features the beautiful Cherry Blossom Geisha from Simply B Stamps.

To create the right background for this gorgeous image I made a gatefold card look like a shoji screen.  I used my Cameo to cut the black frame and then adhered it to some transparent paper (essentially vellum).  For stability, and to give me somewhere to add my message, I used another sheet of black cardstock with some white cardstock in between to prevent the black showing through.

I wanted to keep this fairly CAS to allow the beauty of the image to take centre stage so I just scattered some mulberry flowers across the screen.  As the flowers are from I Am Roses I’m entering this in their current challenge.  Flowers are the theme over at Quirky Crafts where they want to see lots of them, they are my only embellie on this card and there are a number of them so I think my card qualifies.

Over at Brown Sugar they have a colour theme of navy, pink and white, which gave me the perfect colours for my card (hoping the black doesn’t count!).  I was going to go for pink on the cherry blossoms and black for the main colour of the kimono but switched to navy to fit the theme and I am glad I did as I love the way my geisha turned out.  Instead of making the cherry blossoms fully pink I left them white and just added a dash of pink to the centres (some more than others on the mulberry flowers, Copic ink tends to bleed quite a bit on them) to ensure I kept to the colour theme and, again, I am really pleased with the result.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin C00, C0, C1, 0

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair T6, T8, T10, 100

Outfit B06, B14, B37, B39, RV13, RV14, RV25, RV29

Embellishments

I Am Roses ~ Cherry Blossoms White (S3-151) & Small Flowers White (S10-15)

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot

Uni Posca Pen ~ Gold

Papers

Bazzill Cardstock Monochromatic ~ Raven

Christina Re ~ Transparent Paper

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Black Cat & Great White

Stamps

Simply B Stamps ~ Cherry Blossom Geisha (retired)

Challenges

Brown Sugar #142 ~ Navy, Pink & White

I Am Roses ~ April challenge

Quirky Crafts #8 ~ Blooming Quirky!

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