Robot

It's been another busy weekend - all to do with karting!  Jacob, on Saturday, finished fourth (again!) in the Formula Bambino championship at Daytona Manchester.  And this morning Samuel had two practice sessions back to back (we are cruel parents!) and he smashed his personal best lap record and set a new time of 25.618 - you can have a read about it on their karting blog!  Feel free to leave them a comment - you could be the first!!  There are a few videos on the blog too so you can see how fast Samuel goes and the noise!  I'm now used to the smell of diesel lingering on me all day after we've been there for a few hours!

Anyway, back to earth and crafting!  Once again (I am still blaming the new Blogger layout!) I've not blogged the new release digi stamp from Jellypark!  It's this rather fab little robot who comes with a blank sentiment tile (I've handwritten the sentiment).  He's been coloured with Promarkers and I've used papers from Cosmo Cricket - Cogsmo along with my fab X Cut star dies.  I've just released that this card is the image that accompanies the digi stamp on the Jellypark website!!!

I don't know if you can see them, but I've made some fake black brads - a dot of black pen (either a fineliner or Sharpie marker) and then dab a dot of glossy accents over the top - quick and fab!!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Great Impressions:  Die Cuts or Punches
Platypus Creek Digitals:  For The Boys
Pan Pastels:  Fathers Day / Boys
The Crafty Pad:  Lets Hear It For The Boys
Di's Digi's:  Male Inspired
Delicious Doodles:  For The Fellas

• Image:  Jellypark, coloured with Promarkers
• Papers:  Cosmo Cricket:  Cogsmo
• Dies:  X Cut stars
• Everything else:  My stash

Enviroment Green

Just about finished this card on time! It's been in progress all week but as I decided to do a Tidy Up it didn't get finished! The Tidy Up is still not quite finished and I now realise just how much stuff I have and that I really do need to use it up before I buy more! The box of off cut bits of card is almost overflowing so I'm hoping to drastically reduce it over the next few weeks!

Anyway, the Tiddly Inks theme this week is:

Green

So, I've gone with a slightly different take on the theme - enviromentally! I won a gift certificate recently from Tiddly Inks and was trying to decide if I should use the robot image or one of the new releases for this challenge. The robot won, as you can see!
I've coloured him with Promarkers and all the papers are from Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand. I'd printed them off for something but not used them. I've faux stitched the edges of the card and image - the other peices have just been dotted with a fine black pen. Sentiment is computer generated and I've used some embroidery thread from my stash for the bunting.

The bunting came about because I'd picked the wrong shaped card blank to use (in an effort to use what I have!) and had covered it with the backing paper before I realised. So there you have it - robot bunting!

• Image: Tiddly Inks
• Papers: Craft The Year Away from Funky Hand
• Sentiment: Computer generated
• Everything else: My stash
  

Robot Doorhanger

The CRAFT challenge this week is a good one! It is:

Doorhangers

Which I do like to make! This one has been made with the very brand new download Rainbow Polkadots from Funky Hand which has all the colours of the rainbow (plus some!) in both positive and negative dot patterns (coloured background/white dots or coloured dots/white background).

I actually had a brain wave when making the doorhanger as I always struggle to get a nice neat finish for the hole, so I used my scalloped Nestabilities, only that I didn't quite manage to line them up properly so its a little more scalloped than I intended!

The little robot is from Craft The Year Away, also from Funky Hand and I've made him large enough to fit on the doorhanger (all the digis can be made as big as A4 without any quality loss) and he's been coloured with Promarkers and a few dabs of glossy accents here and there. I was a bit cack handed when cutting out his antennae so he has wire and a button instead!

I've added some card candy to the aperture and a bit of inking and doodling a line around the edge and the doorhanger is complete!

• Papers: Rainbow Polkadot download from Funky Hand
• Image: Craft The Year Away cd from Funky Hand
• Card Candy: Craftwork Cards
• Everything else: My stash
  

Robots are Not For Girls

I didn't think I was going to make this one in time, but I've just about managed it! The Pink Elephant Challenge is a sketch:

And I've used the brand new cd from Polkadoodles - Not For Girls, which will have its release on Thursday 1 October on Create and Craft! The cd (which you will have probably guessed by the title) is male themed - it covers sports and these cute little robots plus tonnes more! It's a double cd so you get a lot for your money!

I've printed the two different backing papers at A5 so I got a smaller detail and I've cropped a topper and sentiment so I could use them individually on my card.

A bit of inking, corner rounding and I've doodled a gold gel line around the edges, and that's more or less it! The added nuts and bolts I got from the Scrap Store ages ago and I thought they'd go well on the card.

• Backing papers: Not for Girls cd from Polkadoodles
• Image: Not for Girls cd from Polkadoodles
• Sentiment: Not For Girls cd from Polkadoodles
• Tiny nuts and bolts: From the Scrap Store
  
  

Get Funky! Challenge 2 - Two Little Boys

Is it really September already?! The year has flown by and September is always a busy month for me as both boys have their Birthdays in the first two weeks. And this year is even more special as I am the Guest Designer for September on Get Funky! challenge blog!

So, in honour of Samuel and Jacob's birthdays, I set the challenge which is:

Two Little Boys

Both my boys have their Birthdays in September - Jacob will be 4 and Samuel will be 6.

So my challenge is to make a boy themed card, layout, project or what ever you fancy as long as it is aimed at a boy and uses a Funky Hand paper or extra.

For Samuel's card I have used papers from It's Funky Too. I used a football template from an old issue of Papercraft Inspirations and cut the white parts from hammered white card and then layered it over the black card. A bit of chalking and light doodling and it looks like a football! I've inked the edges of all the papers before doodling a fine outline on them.


Samuel's name has been cut from black card and I've dotted the edges of the letters with white gel pen - the alphabet is Sizzix Round-a-Bout. Not sure if you can see, but the silver card has been embossed with a Cuttlebug folder - I think it is the brick one (well, I don't keep the packaging and the name of it is on that!) Samuel really enjoys football, however his school trousers and shoes disagree and I'm hoping that Year 1 will be kinder on his uniform than Reception year!

For Jacob's card I used Now That's Funky. I'd already printed the papers off a while ago as I had the idea of making a robot, however, I made a slight error and stuck the backing paper to the card blank and then realised that the robot was going to be a little bigger than it should be! I've used a corner rounder for all the edges and layered the printed papers onto some shiny silver card (made it a bit more robotic!) Basically, I made it up as I went along, adding bits of wire here and there and punching silver circles with a hole punch.

I used Pritt Gel glue for the wire as it sticks anything I've ever tried and dries virtually clear (unless you dollop the glue too much). Of course the robot had to have wobbly eyes, and is it me, or does he look a bit scared?!

The tiny nuts came from the Scrap Store a while ago and are perfect for little projects like this.

And because I'd made the robot a little too large for the card, I decided to give him jointed legs so I've used some silver jump rings. The lower part of the legs I went a bit flashy and made them concertina style but the silver card was having none of it so they just got stuck on as they are now.

Hope you liked my cards and pop over to the Challenge blog for more details on how to enter and to see the rest of the Design Team's creations - you won't be disappointed! Don't forget, you have the whole of September to enter - as long as you've linked your creation back to the challenge post before the end of the month, you stand a chance of winning a £20 gift voucher to be spent on Funky Hand products!

Good luck and I look forward to visiting you to see how you've interpreted my challenge!

• Backing papers: It's Funky Too and Now That's Funky
• Template: Football from Papercraft Inspirations
• Dies: Sizzix Round-a-Bout alphabet set and Cuttlebug embossing die (I think bricks)
• Tiny nuts: From the scrap store
• Everything else: From my stash
  
  
  

Salt & Pepper Robot

I've combined the current Sketch and Stash challenge with the Creative Card Crew Monochrome Madness challenge

I've used my Papermania Robot stamp (think I've only used it once or twice before!) and have inked it with silver ink. The backing papers are the Salt and Pepper download from Funky Hand, and I've not used these papers for ages!

I've inked the edges with strong black and a fading black inkpads and added a silver doodled line around the edge of the card. Sorry about the poor photo - the sun hadn't quite got to us this morning when I took the photo!

• Backing papers: Salt and Pepper download from Funky Hand
• Stamp: Papermania
  
  

Robots and Spots

This weeks Friday Sketchers challenge is:

And this is what I made. The robot stamp is by Papermania and I've used a black Ink It Up ink pad as its more watery and easier to use on such a large surface. I've rounded all the corners, inked them and also chalked the background to the image as the white card was too stark.

The papers are from the same collection 'For Him' 6 x 6 and the stamps are from a clear acrylic Studio G set. And I've coloured in (badly as it was dark!) the little star on the boy sentiment.

I think I need to use this stamp more often!

• Backing papers: Papermania 'For Him' 6 x 6
• Robot stamp: Papermania
• Other stamps: Studio G acrylic set
  
  

Robot!

I do like Tamara's Sketches - they are so simple and easy to work with! This week is the following, and because I'm getting good at these sketches, I decided to flip it round!!This is the robot stamp that I used on Samuel on Sunday! I used a black Stamp It Up water based ink pad as I wanted a bit of a mottled look to it which has worked out just how I wanted. The robot has been layered onto some silver wavy card and then onto some really shiny (but not mirror) silver card - hence the flash bounce!

The backing paper is Salt and Pepper download from Funky Hand, and yes, those are paperclips that I have used with a small star in the centre! I found a big tub of paperclips a few weeks ago, I've not got a clue what possessed me to buy so many, but waste not want not, so I decided I'd better try and use them!

The two stamps are fairly recent purchases, and I can't remember the maker, so will update this post when I eventually remember to look!

It's not often I make male cards, and I did have one to make for the end of the month, so this fits nicely!

• Backing papers: Salt and Pepper download from Funky Hand
• Stamps: I've had a look and they are both Papermania!
• Paperclips: From a big tub from Tescos
• Punch: Star from my box of stuff