Happy Birthday

A simple card today for a teenage boy's birthday. I dread making these cards boys are difficult to cater for once they are past the stage of cute cards.


Guitar from The Best of La Pashe 2012, I only used this small part from a decoupage sheet, cut it 3 times and layered it up.
Background digi stamps from Pixel Scrapper


Challenges

http://cdsundaychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/cd-sunday-rock-star.html
http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/r236-music.html
http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/boys-and-their-toys.html
http://crazychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/cch-202-monochromatic.html
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-269-no-patterned-papers.html
http://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-149-birthday-wishes.html
http://unikostudio.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/uniko-challenge-23.html
http://creativefingerschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-88-winners-86.html

Unique Unforgettable You

Something completely different for me, no colouring on the digi image but the poppies and leaves are coloured with Promarkers, the only other touches of colour are in the feather and gem. I watched Sheen Douglas on Create and Craft the other day when she was using ordinary copy paper to make flowers/leaves, I didn't use watercolours but promarkers then applied a light spray of water and shaped my flowers once they dried they were quite firm and substantial enough to apply to my card.


Digi from TLC
Sentiment from bits of paper http://jamielanedesigns.blogspot.co.uk/p/word-art.html
Sheena Douglas Poppy Die and Stamp set free with the Summer edition of Crafter's Inspiration from Crafters Companion poppy and leaves coloured with Promarkers.



Challenges


http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/week-306flowers.html
http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/279-clean-and-simple.html
http://simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-9.html
http://brownsugarchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-156-anything-goes.html
http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/no-designer-paper.html
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-69.html
http://ttcrd.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/anything-goes-for-week-of-7-21-15.html
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-271-always-anything-goes.html
http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.ca/2015/07/new-challenge-for-all-crafts-words.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-116_24.html
http://unikostudio.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/uniko-challenge-23.html
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-269-no-patterned-papers.html

Mistletoe

Image from Joanna Sheen House Gruffies and Happy Hoppers
Cuttlebug Embossing Folders


I went into  Aberdeen yesterday with our younger son when he was going to work, we met our elder son and we all had breakfast together before James started work. Then a wander round the shops with Douglas looking for last minute buys before he gets married at the beginning of September. When James finished work Douglas's fiancée joined us and we had an early dinner out. They left to go for a walk and James and I headed for the station, James hates the train at 5.26 it's always really busy and it's like a cattle stampede on the platform. Do you mind waiting for the next train at 6.20 mum ? it's not as busy,  ok lets go for a coffee. At 5.21 let's just go for the 5.26 mum, mad dash to the station 5.25 on the clock when we arrived, through the ticket machine and a sprint to the platform,really nice guard shouting encouragement 6 seconds to spare, but we were on the wrong end of the train for where we wanted to go , the last 2 carriages only go part of the away so we had to change carriages at the next stop, next time I'll say no if he suggests a last minute dash like that. Trouble is it's usually 2 hrs between trains apart from at peak times so they are always busy. Driving in and parking for the day is more expensive than going by train unless there are more than 2 folk going you can't win.


Challenges

http://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/hmfmc199-house-mouse-and-friend.html
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/pile-it-on-78-christmaswinter-in-july.html
http://thegloryofchristmaschallenge.blogspot.de/2015/07/challenge-63-feature-creature-add-animal.html
http://ooh-la-la-creationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-185.html
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.ca/2015/07/challenge-111-embossing-wet-or-dry.html
http://craftingforallseasons.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-106.html
http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/traditional-christmas-colours.html
http://www.craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-271-always-anything-goes.html
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-69.html
http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-300-christmas-in-july.html