A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #855 - Masculine Card - New Job, New Beginnings - Sponsored by Polkadoodles

Hello and a happy Tuesday to you all I hope that you are having a lovely week so far!

The middle of September is here and we're still having lovely weather - lots of sunshine in the day, cooler nights and refreshingly cooler mornings. 

It will soon be time for our town Feria at the end of the month so I'm hoping for a few cooler days as wearing a flamenco dress in the sun will be a little uncomfortable LOL

I'm here today to let you know that a new challenge has started over on the Passion for Markers Blog.

This week our challenge is being sponsored by Polkadoodles and the theme chosen by Natalie for team 2 is Masculine, cards I think we all need to make more of, well I do anyway.

I'm ok with cute masculine cards for boys or cheeky ones but always seem to struggle with ideas for general cards but there are loads of amazing digital stamps on the Polkadoodles website that are perfect for boys of all ages.

For my Masculine card today I decided I would make a masculine new job card using one of the digital stamps from the Graduation School Student collection.

This is Cute Boy with Pencil & Paper - he definitely looks like he's about to start a new job, with his paperwork in his hand.

The card is a Double Pop out Gatefold card and you can get the instructions for this card in Mixed Up Craft website or there is an excellent tutorial on Youtube 

Basically the card is constructed from 2 pieces of cardstock to give the larger card but it still fits into a standard A7 or 5" x 7" envelope.

Each piece measures 7 3/4 x 7" scored at 2 1/2", 5", 7 1/4".  after folding and burnishing, the two pieces are adhered together in the small centre strip.

Next I chose three papers from the collection and used these to layer onto the card base using a yellow card as an accent colour.  I also die cut several stars in yellow card to decorate the card adding patterned papers and strip sentiments.

The image was coloured with a my promarkers and then I fussy cut him out adding foam tape to the back for dimension, before adding the little boy to the star on the centre pop out strip of the card.  

When the card is closed flat you don't see the little boy, only the stars on the front, then the recipient gets a nice surprise when the card is opened up.

I decided to not add any extra bling to the card, my nod to it being a masculine card simply adding white gelly pen highlights on the image...My hubby says he prefers card with less frou-frou 

I really hope that you have enjoyed my card packed with flowers today and will drop by again to see my next project and don't forget to join in with the challenge over on the Passion for Markers blog

Hasta luego 👋 


Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Polkadoodles Digital Stamp - Graduation School Student collection - Cute Boy with Pencil & paper

Polkadoodles Digital Sentiment - Graduation School Student collection - sentiment bundle

Polkadoodles Digital Paper - Graduation School Student collection - paper bundle

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

          

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x

Digi Choosday - Graduation - Congratulations - Male Card - Graduation School Student Collection - with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday... I hope that you're having a great week so far......its nearly the end of April and the garden is blooming.  Everywhere has really benefitted from the early heavy rains we had so fingers crossed the plants are ready for the high temperatures of the Summer months.

It's that time of the week to share some more inspiration for our current 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing Digi Choosday discount off all crafty printable downloads!  

Don't Forget that our challenges our now 4 weekly so there's loads of time for you to join in and more chances to win too!

The theme set for the DT this week is to make a graduation card so I decided to use one of the fab images from the Graduation School Student collection

When I left school many years back (1985 to be precise!) graduation definitely wasn't a thing....just for graduation from University, how times have changed.  Its very popular now though - even little ones have graduations from nursery !

So I don't really make or send many of these cards but its always good to have some in my stash just in case.

Its a super cute little boy with his graduation gown and cap - definitely reminds me of my own son Jack when he graduated from Portsmouth University...must be the glasses and the scruffy hair...LOL

I created an arched doorway from dies and went with a gold, black and silver theme for my card today, colouring the image with promarkers and fussy cutting out before assembling the card.  The congratulations banner was also coloured in the same palette before fussy cutting out.

To finish off the card I added confetti around the design and added some glossy accents to the boys glasses and white gel pen highlights.

I hope that you like my project today and you'll enjoy the next that I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe: 

Polkadoodles digital stamp - Graduation School Student - Cute boy with spectacles

Polkadoodles digital paper - Graduation School Student - paper bundle

Polkadoodles digital clipart - Graduation School Student - clipart bundle

Spellbinders confetti - gold

distress ink - black soot

Pebeo gilding wax - silver

glossy accents

Sakura gelly roll pen - white

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x

A Passion for Markers Blog Spot Challenge #828 - Anything Masculine - Sponsored by Dr Digi

Hello everyone wishing you all a lovely day -  I was so late updating my blog for today - got completely side tracked after yoga yesterday and then I managed to do a little pruning in the garden so tired myself out...so I'm in a rush this morning to get it written and published before my haircut at 10 !

Its gone so cold here again - even though its nearly Spring officially and its hot when you are in the sunshine its very cold in the shade and even colder in the house LOL 

Today I'm here to let you know that there's a new week long challenge on the Passion for Markers Blog challenge and I hope that you will join in as there is a prize up for grabs.

This week we are being sponsored by Dr Digis House of Stamps
and our theme is very simple - Anything Masculine and is being hosted by Elaine for Team 2. I'm still struggling to make more Masculine less cutesy cards - I should try harder I know.

I'm a Rock Chick at heart and I know quite a few Old Rockers who are also into their motorbikes so I decided today to use this cheeky Dr Digi stamp called Aubery Bumblethorpe colouring with my Promarkers before cutting out on my ScanNCut.


I then created a metal looking grid plate using an embossing folder in my stash, from black card and silver gilding wax. To tie in with Aubery's t-shirt I cut some red glitter stars and a large black glitter star to add to the background panel, cutting to fit the card base.


The perfect sentiment is from the Gnome for Men collection by Polkadoodles.


Finishing touches were glossy accents for his glasses and some silver gel pen on the buttons and belt.




Wishing you all a wonderful week!


I hope that you join in with the challenge as don't forget there is a prize from the sponsor for our lucky winner!




I really hope that you have enjoyed my card today and will drop by again to see my next project and don't forget to join in with the challenge over on the Passion for Markers blog





Hasta luego 👋




Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:

Dr Digi House of stamps - Aubery Bumblethorpe

Polkadoodles digital sentiment - Gnome for Men - sentiment bundle

Crafters Companion Embossing folder

Pebeo Gilding Wax - silver

Sakura Gel Pen - silver

glossy accents

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x

Back to Basics - Male Birthday - Craftwork Cards - Take it Easy Collection

Hello everyone wishing you all a wonderful Friday - Yeah It's raining !

that probably sounds really weird to most people but we don't get that much here so when it rains its wonderful....as long as it doesn't carry on for days that is LOL

Rainy Days are cosy indoor crafty days.....once I've done a few chores obviously.

I needed to make a very plain male birthday card (no Frou-frou) to send to the UK and I decided in my mission to use my stash this year I would dig out one of my Craftwork Cards collections.  

This A6 Hammock Fold card has been made using the Take is Easy collection.

I always struggle with masculine cards but I'm pleased how this came out and I think it fits the bill.

Its a new card fold for me but I love it and its great for using those papers in my crafty hoard.

For the base card I used two pieces of pale blue cardstock measuring 12" x 6" and 9" x 4"

The larger peice was scored at 2", 4", 8" & 10" and the smaller piece scored at 1 1/2", 3", 6" & 7 1/2"

If you are looking for a tutorial for the hammock fold card then I would recommend reading the one at Beccy's Place as its really clear and easy to follow.

Here is the link for the tutorial

I've used up some of the scraps of paper that I have kept for ages and a couple of the sentiments that cam in the collection to decorate the card.

I die cut a couple of diamonds from the pale blue card to layer under the sentiments as I didn't want them to be lost with the busy paper pattern.

I added a few pieces of orange candi and then coated them with glossy accents so they look like enamel dots.

Its really simple and a lovely style and easily folds up to fit an A6 size envelope.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

                  

Card recipe:

Craftwork Cards - Take it Easy collection

Craftwork Cards - Candi

Glossy Accents

   

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

 Wendy x