Happy Birthday Tom!

It's son in laws birthday to day, Happy Birthday Tom!!  I thought I'd make him a card with a nice sexy lady on the front this time, instead of a bear, or a monkey from past years, in fact two sexy ladies! 

This is one of Kenny K's digi images of course and as you can see I've flipped one of the images the other way.  

I've been using my embossing folders, in side and out, and cog die cuts again. I do love them!  This time I inked over all the embossing using a Furry Grey ink,

(Had to get an animal in there somewhere) 

I've used metal brads, and well as screw brads and a spanner brad and a charm guitar.
I've coloured her with  ProMarker, using mostly greys. (The card she's printed on wasn't too good (it was, coz it wasn't cheap!) it bled over the edges, which was a bit of a pain! So, after extra careful colouring near the edges, all was okay!)

The papers were a freebie from Simply Cards and PaperCraft magazine, a few months back. Prima Botanical Collection 6x6 paper stack. Probably not really a 'mans' type of paper (coz there are flowers and chirrups cherubs too) but they are all quite dark or light, with prints and other things and have 'graphicy' type patterns and once I'd embossed and inked them, you couldn't really tell what's on them!

I've also coloured a card die-cut T  (for Tom) with a black Promaker.

The sentiment was done on the computer The font is a freebie. It's called Rock, download HERE! It has  musical instruments in the gaps, well, you'll see what I mean!

New Follower (((wave))) to Any Old Craft which I found the other day when I was blog hopping, some lovely cards, so go see! And out the back and in the dark Krisha! But with no link, strike that!! You'll find Krisha  at Krisha's Keepsakes! Hope to enter this and add a few more...

 Challenges!!

OSAAT- Use a Digi
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100 Years Old Card

Ooops, no actually, the card isn't that old, it's only a few hours old, but it's for a hundred year old gentleman, (I was asked to make it) So, my attempts of tidying up my crafty space have gone right out the window again, and I'm now in twice as much mess. (Yay!) 

Here's the card. It's 8x8. I've used a mixture of papers, My Minds Eye, The cars were a freebie from a magazine and the Prima Botanical is a 6x6 paper-stack which came free from  Simply Cards and PaperCraft a few months back. 

Most of the embossing Darice folders came from Crafter's Companion and the little clock charm came with a set from Craft's Beautiful. I've used lots of different shades and plain/embossed mirri/matt gold card for the cog's

and just built them up around the sides. I embossed the clock paper with a clock emboss folder and then attacked it with some TH Vintage Photo

The Font  I've used is a freebie, (I've linked it before) it's called Amazone BT DOwnload it HERE

That's about it, hope they like the card, hoping to add it to some challenges when I get back. Thank you for stopping by!

This Weeks Wednesday Digi

Here's this weeks Freebie Digi. You always know when I'm running late, I do a bear!  I know why, it's because in my head I have this cute little bear and, by the time he gets put on paper and than scanned into the computer and then fiddled with in there, he comes out not looking the way I want him to look! I've called him Teddy Flower, but if you can think of a better name, let me know!  He comes in both Jpeg and PNG and I've put them both in there for you to download. No sharing on shared sites or other places please, just save him to

our computer, but links back here are always welcome!

 Download Here!

It's WOYWW Time Again

Oh no, it's already WOYWW! Time flies by soooo quickly these days. I know I've said it before, I'm sure there's two Wednesdays in the week! Down below is my desk after the weekend painting....nothing but mess there, and turn to the other desk...up the top... I've been hunting for these drawings/maps I did to go with one of my stories, and I found them. (yay) That's what's on my Workdesk this Wednesday! What's on yours? Nip over to Julia's Stamping Ground and join in!

It's A Quirky Magic Paint Job!

Here's the 'other' card I made and added to the latest Quirky Crafts challenge... Myth and Magic and you must use paint Challenge.

 I covered a blank card with some medieval looking backing paper (use your imagination if you think it's not!)  then painted it with some metallic paints I had as a freebie from a magazine sometime ago, (thought it was about time I used them!) They were very nice and left a nice sheen on the paper and of course, I made a nice mess!

 Once more I coloured the stamped image from our sponsor, Crackerbox Palace with Promarkers. Stamped the sentiment with black ink and covered it with clear embossing power and zapped it with the heat gun. Added flowers punched from more paper covered in print and painted then sprits with some Cosmic Shimmer. I've then used a little envelope punch from Woodware and folded up some money to hide inside. That's it! Go and see what the other DT member's have made over on Quirky Crafts and join in! 

Challenges 

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Craftycatzweeklychallenge-anything-goes.

It's All Quirky Myth and Magic!

 It's that Quirky time again and it's Daire's turn to set the theme so you know it's gonna be different. This time it's

 Myth and Magic and you must use paint on your project!

The sponsors of this challenge are the fabulous:  Crackerbox Palace   who sent the DT some lovely stamps to play with!

So I got nice and messy painting this castle with acrylic paints straight onto the card and adding the sentiment to look like a flag and then added the dragon on dollops of 3D silicone glue (Stamps from our super stamp sponsors Crackerbox Palace ) They were stamped in black ink, covered in clear embossing power and then zapped with the heat gun. Then I cheated and coloured them with ProMarkers. (The paint was covering up the lines!) I've added a couple of brads for 'handles' and then gone around the whole thing with a black Tempo marker pen. I'll tell you about my second card tomorrow (if I have time, as I'm walking six dogs!) but I've already added it to the challenge blog. That's it for now, sorry for being awol, but I'm sort of working on something else! Thanks for popping by!

Will add Challenges later

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This Weeks Wednesday Digi CLOSED

The pigeons  in our garden have been for ages, trying to make a nest. Stupid birds that pigeons are, they first chose to build it on the shed, where it just slipped off and then, on a very tiny apple tree, (in a pot) and then in the rose bush climbing near the shed. It's a good place they think...near the pond, the apple tree, and the bird table. (For snacks) The sticks and the eggs kept falling to the ground, and Jinxy the Lodger Cat thought it was a good place to sun himself! The Pigeons, have now gone next door.... I've often thought we should be kind and either make or buy a pigeon house for them. Their ideal home, would be in a rose bush that grows apples too. So this weeks freebie is just for them! Thank you for calling by!!
 The lovely card was made by Mo, Twinkletoes2day!!

 *** We have seen baby pigeons, so they must have been successful somewhere! (The baby pigeons never stay long )

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