The Male Room Challenge #178 - Leaves

Morning all, 

We have a perfectly timed challenge over on The Male Room blog today as the theme is ‘Leaves’, perfect to lead us in to autumn.

For my card today I have used the ‘waste’ left from a foiled background and I love the great big splash of gold it gives. 

I kept the colour theme simple and die cut my leaves from the same colour card as the background card and added a belated birthday sentiment as it’s always handy to have these in! 

Join in the fun at The Male Room here, and check out all the other wonderful Design Team inspiration whilst you are there.

Much love

Steph x

The Male Room Challenge #168

 Hello everyone, 

The theme this month for The Male Room challenge is to include a pop up element.

Oh gosh, I think I rather overthought this make and decided to try and make pop up weaved element. It was a nightmare!! I strongly advise avoiding trying to recreate this card and I am in awe of anyone who can just make one of these up with ease! 

So my pop up element is meant to be a bauble and would probably benefit from a hanging element but by the time I got to this stage I’d had enough. This was my third attempt to get the mechanism to work. Safe to say I’ll not be making anymore of these! 

Here’s a closer look at the pop up.

I left the outside of the card simple so that all the surprise is in the opening of the card. 

I did however get to play with my foiling machine for the sentiment on this card so it’s not all bad! This sentiment uses the ‘waste’ part of the foil as I have a solid plate which transferred this to the card and I was able to die cut it with the sentiment outline die. 

Now we want to see your creations with their pop-up elements over at The Male Room challenge. Please head over to the blog and give the rest of the Design Team some love. Join in the challenge and show me how it’s done! I need to see some inspiration for next time I come across a pop-up challenge as I can’t attempt this one again!! 😂

Much love

Steph x

The Male Room Craft Challenge #163

Welcome back! 

This month at The Male Room we are looking for a 'Tag'. 

As June is Father's Day in the UK I used that as my inspiration for my tag.

As my Dad is a super star I used my star dies to cut out some teal card that I have foiled with white foil. This type of foil does not require heat and simply sticks to adhesive so I used strips of double sided tape. I also foiled teal card with teal foil and die cut the smaller tag shape before adhering this onto a larger tag shape using foam pads. The larger tag die and the sentiment are both from Clearly Besotted. 

So where will you draw your inspiration from for your tag? Head over to The Male Room blog to see what themes the rest of the awesome Design Team used and to join in with us! 

Much love

Steph x

CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #469

Good morning all,

I made this card last week but didn’t have chance to write my blog post until now.

I had a very productive time using up items I had already created but were in the ‘pending’ pile as far as making a card was concerned! 

The background is foiled in silver using a regular die and it has given a lovely outlined detail. To this I have added a strip of silver glitter card and on top of that an image that I had already printed, coloured and die cut. Finally I added the sentiment strips which I had also stamped and die cut. So overall it was a nice quick card to make. 

I used the sketch from CAS colours & sketches challenge #469 for my layout and have flipped it on the short edge to move the shape part lower and the sentiment higher. 

As this is a Christmas card I’m also entering it into the following:

Happy Little Stampers May Christmas Challenge 

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge #594

Challenge 594

anything goes as long as it's Christmas

optional theme: candy canes

Much love

Steph x