Crafty Cardmakers Challenge - 'For a Man/Boy.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.
Hi! back again to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.

 Maike is hosting today and our challenge is For a Man/Boy.  

As usual you can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to be cards, as long as it meets the challenge. 

Hope you will join in.
And here is my project for the challenge:

As we are coming up to Father's day it seemed like a good idea to use the opportunity to make one so here it is.

The stamps and dies were free with 'Papercraft essentials' magazine and I think they may prove quite useful.

 

A little extra detail added around the back too.

 

I stamped directly onto the card blank first and then onto a piece of leftover background paper which had been coloured with distress Oxides. The bear himself was stamped onto craft card which had also been smooshed with Oxides. I completed the card with the die cut stars, dewdrops and Glossy Accents on the eye glass.

I hope you will pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to and maybe join in the challenge.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with too.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Simply Create Too Challenge: For a Male
Crafting by Design: For the Boys
Dream Valley Challenges: Challenge#180-For Man or Boy
Tuesday Throwdown: # 394 Make your Own Background
Stamping Sensations: June-Anything goes
 

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge # 166: A Special Man.

Welcome to all my new followers, hope you enjoy the journey.

Hi! back again to tell you that it's time for another challenge over
at Crafty Cardmakers.

The theme for this Challenge is For a Special Man

With Father's Day a couple of days away we would like to see your projects for a Special Man.
This challenge is being hosted by Lin.

You can enter anything you fancy, it doesn't have to be just cards, as long as it meets the challenge, and doesn't exceed the 15 total challenges entered rule!

To make this card  started by creating a Masterboard made with old car tax disks.

I started with an A3 sheet of cartridge paper.

 

Then took several old tax disks and ripped them apart.

These had originally belonged to a friend who had kept them for years so it seemed a shame to just throw them away. For this project I am only using the red ones though there are several other colours too and I will use them sometime in the future I'm sure.

I attached these randomly to the paper.

 

And then using this Prima stencil,

 

to apply ink to the top of the disks and heat embossed it with clear powder.

 

To finish the Masterboard, I sprayed the surface with red ink and then buffed it to remove the excess from the embossed areas.

 

You can see here that I also added a text stamp to the design.

 

 

 

I have also used left over pieces of this Masterboard

 

 

  which was originally made using this stamp.

Finally before putting everything together, I used  a Tim Holtz stamp (Vintage Auto CMS265) to create the topper for the card which was also heat embossed.

I used a blending tool to add the distress ink and then sprinkled water over the top and dabbed it off to create the splashed effect.
I used a Creative Expressions stamp (Classic Cars) for the sentiment.

At this stage I was ready to construct the card. I used red textured card and smooth black to layer the sections. Some of the edges were distressed before everything was put together and the card finished by adding black gems down two sides.

 I hope you will pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to and maybe join in the challenge.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

 Happy crafty card making.

Angela x

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:
Moo-Mania and More: Masculine
Stempelgarten Challenge#50 A Card for the Man
Craft for the Craic: June Challenge - Something Masculine!
Calendar Girls Crafty Challenges: Challenge#! Father's Day.
Simon Says Stamping Blog: Father's Day/ For A Guy
Try it On Tuesday: It's All About Him.
The Male Room: New DT member and Challenge #37-Father's Day.