Remembrance Day at The Male Room

Posted in Cards, Masculine, Sympathy by Chris

Today, all over the world, Remembrance Day is celebrated, although here in Australia we tend to focus more on Anzac Day than today. There are special parades and remembrance services going on today though, and it is still a day for contemplating and remembering.
At The Male Room, we are asking you to create a project using the Remembrance Day theme, or Sympathy.

I have made a Sympathy card for my project, using a technique that I really like for this type of card.

The technique I have used for the background is the direct ink technique, in this case, the ink is put directly onto a clear mount block (without a stamp on it) and then directly onto the card stock. I have swiped some different coloured inks across my block, and before pressing the inked block onto my cardstock, I have stuck a circle of punched out Post It note down, to create the white circle “moon”. I think the subtlety of this background is perfect for Sympathy cards.
Over the background ink, I have then stamped some images from the Wetlands, and The Wilderness Awaits stamp sets.
I hope you will join in with us at The Male Room again this fortnight.
Happy Stamping!
Chris

9Mar2015

Australian Outback

Posted in Cards, Masculine by Chris

If you live in Australia, you will be used to seeing these around the country side, even now, many of them rusted and no longer working, but some still going strong. They are a bit of an Australian icon. So when I found the Australian Outback Collection of Digital images from Make It Crafty, I just had to get them, they are just wonderful for making Masculine cards and all sorts of other projects as well.

My card today is made for the Clean and Simple Design Team call with Make It Crafty.
I have sized the windmill image to around 6 x 13cm and coloured it using the following Copic markers: W6, W4, W2 and E18. Here is a close up of the colouring:

I have then layered the coloured image onto a piece of Stampin’ Up! Basic Grey cardstock, and also made the card base from the same colour. The layer of patterned paper comes from the Adventure Bound Designer Series Paper Stack (also Stampin’ Up!) and the sentiment comes from one of my all time favourite Stampin’ Up! stamp sets, Wetlands. Cut a flag into one end of the sentiment strip and a couple of Candy dots at the other end, then adhere with dimensional tape, and it’s done! Simple! And Clean 🙂

Happy Stamping!
Chris

10Jun2014

Hardwood Stamp-a-Stack

Posted in Cards by Chris

Just one of the many things that I love about being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator, is seeing just how much chaos a group of ladies can make with cardboard, ink and punches! Seeing them starting with pieces of cardstock that make no sense at all, and then seeing it all come together. It always makes me smile!
So I want to thank all the ladies from the Time Out on Tuesdays group, who definitely made me smile this morning!
This set of cards was a little more difficult that I would usually design for a Stamp-a-Stack, however this particular group of ladies had all done some stamping and cardmaking before, so I thought a bit of a challenge wouldn’t hurt. I think they all enjoyed themselves.
Anyway, here are the cards they made, all featuring the Hardwood background stamp. This is a really versatile stamp, and I will definitely being showing you some more cute things to do with this stamp.

They made some pretty girly cards in different colours……..

As you can see, these ones also feature the Petite Petals and Papillon Potpourri stamp sets with their matching punches.

The sentiments come from the Wetlands stamp set…….
which we also used to do some cards with a more masculine flavour.

Thanks to all of the lovely ladies in the group, and a special thanks to Heather for organising everything. I had heaps of fun!
Happy stamping!
Chris

5Feb2014

Wetlands Sympathy Card

Posted in Cards, Sympathy by Chris

It’s never easy having to come up with a quick Sympathy card, so I went looking for inspiration on Pinterest…. lots of inspiration on Pinterest for all sorts of things!
I liked the idea of the watercoloured background and the simplicity of the card, but as usual I have made my own modifications.

I have used a sheet of watercolour paper and the Aqua painter to colour the background over the stamped image from the Wetlands stamp set, which was stamped, along with the greeting, in black Stazon ink. Pretty simple really, just use lots of water, and keep on adding ink and blending until you are happy.

Happy stamping!
Chris

8Sep2013

More Wetlands

Posted in Cards by Chris

This week’s sketch at Freshly Made Sketches is my inspiration for today’s card, and the colour combination inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest recently.

The colours are Crumb Cake, Crisp Cantaloupe (such a gorgeous colour!) and Whisper White, and I have used the gorgeous Wetlands stamp set again, loving this set at present 🙂
I have also run the long banner through the Big Shot with the Beautifully Baroque Embossing Folder.

Happy Stamping!
Chris

UPDATE: I am feeling very blessed to have been chosen by Linda Callahan as her “winner” this week. Thank you Linda. I had so much fun making this card, it is always an honour to know that others like my work too.

6Sep2013

Wetlands Stamp-a-Stack

Posted in Cards, Uncategorized by Chris

Here are the cards that we made at my Wetlands Stamp-a-Stack on Wed evening. We all had a good time, lots of laughs, creativity and the lovely ladies went home with 6 cards each.

Keeping things short and sweet today, lots of “stuff” going on in my life at present, mostly to do with a new kitchen that is starting to take shape. So crafting has taken a bit of a back seat for a while, but I assure that won’t continue for long!! 🙂 So keep checking back, I might even post some kitchen photos soon.

Happy stamping!
Chris