Planes, trains, and automobiles

Just in time for my middle son's birthday (he's 37 in case you missed the arrow and the star reference)! He just bought a black pickup truck (not vintage) and his birthday is next week.  Since I have 3 grown sons, I tend to go a little more funkie than frilly.

I started with some map DSP from one of my very first scrapbook purchases, a Heritage Album kit from Hot Off The Press, are they even still around? Then I used the Rays Layering Stencil from Tim Holtz along with some Mini Distress Ink. I forgot to heat set the Distress Ink, so when I added the stamped image of the truck, Tim Holtz The Journey, and some black embossing powder, I had to gently wipe away the black powder on the rays! Then I stamped the compass from Mini Blueprints and used some rub ons from Tim Holtz Life Quotes before adding the die cut pieces from Recollections and the phillips screw Brads, and then used some mounting tape to allow for the extra thickness created by the brads.

Frilly and Funkie - Planes Trains and Automobiles

Moments...just like this

Last month I made a card for my daughter in law for Mother's Day, so I started out wanting to do the same for my son...and then it evolved into a tag that he can display at work. I wanted something masculine and I remembered how much I enjoyed the first Technique Remix in 2016 by Tim Holtz (here).  So, I found my Stars embossing folder, used on Spellbinders Precious Metals, and dabbed on some black Distress Paint, rubbed in and wiped down. I trimmed the metal piece to fit the Jumbo Manila Tag, and adhered it to the top portion of the tag. I then stamped the quote from the retired set from Ali Edwards, It's OK in white craft ink onto black cardstock.  I used Snow Cap acrylic paint to fill in the image on the Word Bands and Typed Tokens.

For the photo, I changed the image to Black and White, printed it in wallet size onto an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of photo paper, and used Spellbinders Large Deckled Rectangles to imitate the edge of an old photo. (Looks like they caught the grandkids on Family Movie Night!)

I like that I was able to fit this into my two favorite challenge blogs:
Frilly and Funkie: Letter Perfect
Simon Says: Anything But a Card

Thanks for stopping by!

100% Tough Guy - SSD #117

I needed a card for my nephew's birthday so I chose one of the older masculine sets, Tough Guy to go with this cute sketch from Kazan Clark for the last sketch of the month at Skipping Stones Design.  It has been so much fun being a Guest Designer this month.  I hope you'll play along for SSD Sketch 117!

Being disorderly...

Today is my oldest son's birthday - he's a little on the non-traditional side...well they all are somewhat...but I thought he'd appreciate this card using Tim Holtz stamps.  The paper is from the Urban Ink collection of Dream Street Papers called Shockwave, and I love the way the stamped image of the eye fit right into the swirled circle on the paper...now I need to go back to the LSS to see if they have any of that paper left!  It was on clearance at the time, so I'm sure it's all gone!  But since I need to 'shop small' that's all the excuse I need to stop in there to look around.  The inside of the card uses a Tim Holtz stamp and the 'Happy Birthday' comes from the Skipping Stones Design set called Grunge.  I was surprised how well the font matched.

The monthly challenge over at the Stampendous Blog is to use chipboard...this card uses Tim Holtz Grungeboard, but I thought that qualified.

Thanks for stopping by, always love hearing from you!

Masculine Mojo 186-Eat More Cake

I volunteered to make a Birthday Card for my boss at work and decided this combination of sets from Skipping Stones Design would work well with this week's sketch from Mojo Monday:

Supplies:
Stamps: Skipping Stones Design Green Birthday, Buns-N-Crunches, Pumpkin Seed Sentiments
CS: Stampin' Up (Kraft, Choc Chip, Sage Shadow
DSP: Stampin' Up (To The Nines-retired)
Ribbon and Twine: Stampin' Up

Mojo Monday - Designed by:

My baby boy turned 20 on Friday and I used this new 'Designed by' stamp from Technique Tuesday, along with a background stamp from Pumpkin Seed Sentiments and a sentiment from Green Birthday, both from Skipping Stones Design and combined them with the Mojo Monday 185 Sketch Challenge.  Also used some Grunge Board for the arrow and a star brad and twine from Stampin' Up.

Do you think it's close enough to the sketch challenge?

Sketch Tuesday #58 at Skipping Stones Design

Hi there!  It's Tuesday again and time for another Sketch Tuesday at Skipping Stones Design.  I used the great background stamps from Grunge...love the wood grain and I stamped the scallop design onto a round chipboard piece to mimic a golf ball.  

Our Guest Sketch Artist for January is Amy Sheffer, you can read a little about Amy at Skipping Stones Design Meet and Greet Monday.    Here is the great sketch for you to play along this week:

 

iPod Birthday

This is a card I made for my son's 19th birthday last week. All supplies were Stampin' Up. I got the inspiration from a cute card on Splitcoast (couldn't find the link, I'll add it later if I can). I was excited to finally use my 'Build a Brad' set for the earbuds. I decided to enter this in the Showcase for Cute and Some by Audrey Frelx at http://cuteandsome.blogspot.com - you should stop on over to see her site...no specific challenges, just a showcase for your creations once a week.

Memories

I spent most of my craft time this weekend helping a friend put together a few layouts for a Memory Album she's creating for her son who passed away recently. She is extremely talented at cross-stitching, but has never done paper crafting of any kind. I'm still relatively new at scrapbooking also, but I think we came up with a few nice pages. This is a sympathy card I had done for her because he loved fishing so much...I'm a little disappointed in how the picture turned out, the card really looked so much better, not so faded looking, hard to see the colors... background is Mellow Moss, a strip of black with hemp twine and the sentiment matted with Not Quite Navy.