Masculine Birthday Card

Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend.  I know mine was an action packed weekend..... My family and friends put on a surprise birthday party for me and wow....... what a time.  I want to thank everyone for the work in organizing it and all the wonderful gifts.  I couldn't have been more thrilled ...... It definitely was a "Royal" event.

This was a quick birthday card stamped in versafine black ink with the centre dragonfly coloured with glittery pen to make that pop of colour.  The background was shaded with blue and cream inks and  cut out using my nesties and layered on basic grey card stock.  Added three grommets for that masculine look and complete. 

Happy Saturday!

Good morning everyone............ I seem to have been missing in action from the blogging world but as you know summers are always jammed packed with so much I find it is hard to work everything into my schedule.  Once in a while I do manage to colour up an image or two which I set aside until I need a card.  

This particular card I used the spellbinders leaf dye cut set.  I cut the leaf from a bronze colour metal sheet layered on brown and mustard colour papers then added a few gems and ribbon .  Very quick and simple card that could be used for so many occasions.

Happy Birthday Cam!

Does everyone have their Christmas cards finished?  I seem to be a bit behind with mine since I have been busy making cards for all the November and December birthdays.  Anyway thought I would post this card to give you a change from looking at Christmas cards on every ones blog.  This Stamping Bella image was the perfect choice for this young lad since he is really into gaming & computers.  I coloured the image with prisma pencils & gamsol, layered using nesties onto DP paper then finished by adding some baubles and glitter. 

Open House a Great Success!

Today my BFF, Tracy , one of Kimmie's Krafty Girls and I went to the Paper Pickle's annual open house.  The store was filled with women buzzing, chatting and sharing creative ideas, the make and takes were amazing, copic demo by Linda Heavens, & Pauline Godfrey another Bella Babe show casing some marvelous cards. Kelly's baked goods were to die for...........and oh yes my favourite was the chocolate covered peanut balls ohhhhh soooo very yummy!  The store was jumping and really got me in the spirit to get working on my Christmas cards.  Ah yes..... who could leave without purchasing a few of the "must haves".    Thanks ladies........great day had by all.

This is one of my favourite stamps that I use all the time and to no surprise picked it again for this masculine card.  We celebrated my BFF's hubby's birthday last night with a bit of Vino and going out for a dinner.   Great time!!!

Remembrance Day

Thank you to all the Veterans and Soldiers everywhere. We owe you our Freedom.

 Lest We Forget.

What a simply picture perfect fall day.  Just relaxing at home today and creating a few cards here and there.  Last week I was in the big city of Toronto for 2 days of training taking "Training 101" which will help me in my new position as the Training Facilitator for the Municipality.  Since I was in the area I HAD to go to Stamping Bella's store.  This was the first time ever stepping foot inside the store and was blown away at all the stamps on the walls.  Yikes......and to think that I have a pretty good chunk of them.  Great therapy!!!

This card was created for a little boy who's absolute favourite colour is orange. The base of the card is orange layered with blue, orange and green glittery paper with matching DP, added some ribbon, grommets and baubles.  I sprayed glue on the l & k (his initials) then added some sparkly orange glitter to set it off.  I tried to incorporate as much orange as possible.  Quite sure he will love it. 

Where did October go????

Goodness ...... can't believe it is the end of October already.  The last couple of weeks at work have been a blurr and the next 2 weeks are going to be just as bad......ok....deep breath....yes you can do this......

A couple of weeks ago I took my beautiful niece Taya and handsome nephew Ethan to see Peter Pan in Stratford.  I was very impressed with the performance and must say one of the best stage sets I have seen......Well done.

Last weekend celebrated our friends wedding.  It was perfect in every way.  My 2 pisters and I danced and laughed all night.  One of the best times in a long while......Cheers to Laurie and Linda....great time and love you both very much!

Created this card for a male birthday.  The image is from some peel off stickers I have had for some time..then decided to pull out ALL those pens I HAD to have to colour with......  I do love these pens because they are soooo glittery and actually quite easy to use.  I added the sticker image to watercolour paper, using a small amount of glittery blue pen, water and fine tipped paint brush coloured in the leaves.  Cut the image with nesties, layered on mirror gold paper, added brown ribbon, gold baubles, layered on shimmery blue on a brown base.  This was so quick and simple I think I will be making a few more...which will help to use up some of my stash.

Masculine Birthday Card

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.  I took Friday off and my BFF Tracy and I hung out for the day.  We hit some specialty shops and did some major damage to our bank accounts, had a fabulous lunch at Chilled Cork and finished up with a bit of merlot! 

On Saturday Tracy is heading to London to the first Kraftin Kimmie Bash as one of the Krafty Girls.  Once again lets congratulate Tracy on her new role as a Krafty Girl and when you get a chance check out her blog that is full of inspiration!!!! 

I needed a masculine card so came up with this design.  Stamped the image using multi colour inks, clear embossed then layered using my nesties.  The base of the card is a very rich 'eggplant' colour, used my scor pal creating a frame where I layered gold and deep purple ribbon and finished by adding 3 gold and 3 purple buttons.  The gold & purple colours I used in this card look absolutely royal!