The others have fluff…

Sharing a card featuring one of the awesome owls from the Owl Rather Be You set by Gerda Steiner Designs.

My layout follows the current sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch.  Now I am a total enamel dot hoarder, I buy them all the time in all sorts of colours thinking they will be the perfect embellies for male cards.  But you know they just go straight in my enamel dot box and when I make a male card, I somehow don’t think to use them or figure my card doesn’t need any embellies.  But not this time, no siree.  I saw this sketch and thought I can totally enamel dot the heck out of it and that’s exactly what I did ~ think it worked out pretty awesome too!

Now the enamel dot colour choice and the palette for my card comes from the current inspiration cookies from If You Give a Crafter a Cookie.  It’s really hard to tell because the sentiment is pretty small (even on the real card) but I also did the printed part in a matching red with blue dots pattern as one of the candle cookies from the picture.  My ‘birthday’ chippie (one of the last ever order from Make it Crafty, still in mourning over Zoe closing down and the end of the best every chippies in the history of crafting!) was done in gold embossing powder to be the slight gold accent like the flames on the candle.  Unfortunately, when I went to colour up my white enamel dots in gold to add a few of them as accents I found my Gold Alcohol Mixative had gone to swamp water (basically all that’s coming out the bottle now is horrid green liquid) so I had to use rose gold.  Not a great match but I’m telling you now gold glitter brush markers don’t dry over enamel dots and I really didn’t want to plastic fume myself trying to emboss the enamel dots.

But with my embossing on my chippie I am also entering my card over at The Male Room as hopefully this card looks suitably masculine too.  It better, because it’s going to a male friend who told our friend group that we could go to lunch for pretty much any reason other than his birthday, hence the sentiment and the rather unimpressed looking owl on the card.

Ingredients:

Copics

Feathers BV0000, YR31, YR20, YR30 | B60, E59, E57, E23 | E99, YR24, YR21 & PC938, PC943, PC945, PC947, PC1083

Eyes V000, Y13, YR31, YR30

Beak 100, C8, C4

Feet BV25, BV23, BV20 & PC1054, PC1060

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold

Embellishments

Kraftin’ Kimmie Enamel Dots ~ Lovely Dots

Make it Crafty Chipboard Single Layered Word ~ 3" birthday

Uniquely Creative Enamel Dots ~ Aqua, Navy & White (coloured with Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink Rose Gold Mixative)

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Faded Jeans

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Patina

House of Paper Cardstock ~ Linen Embossed White

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Dapper Denim & Real Red

Stamps

Gerda Steiner Designs ~ GSD646 Owl Rather Be You

Challenges

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #136 ~ Candles

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…a diamond in the rough

Sharing a card for one of my staff featuring the Galaxy Galore Background stamp from Whimsy Stamps and an image from the Magical Nights Messages from Hero Arts.

The layout of my card follows the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.  To form the large and small rectangle elements I cut a mask out of some scrap paper and placed this over my cardstock.  I then inked up the Galaxy Galore Background stamp with VersaMark ink then sprinkled over my gold embossing powder.

To form the scalloped element I then embossed one of the diamonds from the Hero Arts’ Magical Nights Messages and fussy cut it, popping it up on a foam dot.  I did the same for one of the other diamond shapes only this time I stamped out two images and fussy cut right down to the centre shape in the diamond to create smaller shapes.

I went with all these tiny images so I could play along at Less is More for their more but still less, well, OK CAS but same same, OK so I like the contradictory sound of more but less better!  For interest I went with a gold on black colour scheme so my ‘white space’ required for it to be CAS is actually black because white space doesn’t literally mean white and hey, we’re going with opposites here (more as less etc, you get my drift, right?!).

I kept my embellies real simple and combined it with my sentiment, using one of Tim’s Small Talk stickers matted on more of his scrummy gold cardstock.  This card is actually to celebrate one of my staff getting promoted into a new team doing a different kind of work so I thought it was appropriate.  And by now you get this card isn’t following the conventional so figures I wouldn’t stick a ‘congratulations’ sentiment on it.

Now my decoration is more or less sticking to one corner of the card so I’m entering it at AAA Cards.  I swung the optional twist too with my older stamps I’ve used.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie Stickers ~ Small Talk

Inks & Paints etc

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Hero Hues Cardstock ~ Pitch Black

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie Kraft-Stock ~ Metallic

Stamps

Hero Arts CM222 ~ Magical Nights Messages

Whimsy Stamps ~ DDB0013 Galaxy Galore Background

Challenges

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This is an environment of welcoming…

Sharing a CAS card featuring a fun image from Dr Digi called Remote Control Colin.

This is going out to a colleague who is off work recovering from surgery.  The sentiment is computer generated and references a quote from The Office, not sure that’s what he’s binging at home but he’s the right generation for that show.

Over at both Bastel-Traum and Kreativ-Tanten they are looking for get well soon cards so I am entering mine in both of their challenges.  At A Place to Start they have a simple theme of anything for a male.  This card is definitely going out to a male, hence my…um…manly man image.  Well, I’m sure the recipient will get a kick out of it anyway, even if he takes better care of himself than this gentleman, including wearing matching socks, but maybe that’s just what he does at work...!

Ingredients:

Copics & Prismacolor Pencils

Skin B60, E21, E50 & PC1026, PC1092

Hair E23 & PC938, PC944 
Singlet BV0000, YR31, YR20, YR30 
Spotted socks G99, BVo8, BV17, BV34 & 100, T10, T8 
Striped socks B32, R27, YR07, YR04 & V01, Y13, Y11 
Underpants Y28, B97, B95, B93 
Chair B66, E59, E57, E23 
Mug C6, BG49, BG45, BG11 
Remote 100, T8, T6, T4, R27, B66 
Inks & Paints etc 
Copic Multilner ~ Sepia 

Kuretake Zig Mangaka ~ Black & Sepia 

Molotow Paint Marker ~ Signal White 

Papers 

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Brown

Cryogen Cardstock ~ Curious Metallics 

Stampin’ Up! Specialty Designer Series Paper Noble Peacock ~ Old Olive Foil 

Stamps 

Dr Digi ~ Remote Control Colin 

Challenges 

A Place to Start ~ Create A Masculine Card or Project

Kreativ-Tanten #38 ~ Get well soon

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