Masculine card

Hello sweet people,

Here is a masculine card I made today for the challenge over at Cards for Men!!!

The printed papers are fancy gift wrap and I have used a Tim Holtz embossing folder. Sponged over the car and used my Sakura gold pen on the car to give it some glamour - that cannot be seen in the picture. Touched the car with water colour pencils as well. I have actually threaded thin strands of paper through the shell buttons. The yellow button on the bottom right had a design on it so I did not thread it.
Popped up the car on dimensional foam and my card was ready!
Aleeza said she did not like this card - too dull. And she added that I should make bright cards for ladies and NOT for men. See the little feminist in her coming out... lol.

I will also enter this card in:
http://www.4craftychicks.blogspot.com/ - buttons

Below is a picture of green grapes growing on the garden fence in Aleeza's school. They survived all that heavy rain we had last week.

Thank God it's Friday - yaaay!

Love,

Monica 

Sending you sunshine

Hello sweet bloggers,

Aleeza sponged in this stencilled image with distress ink and I touched up the centres of the flowers with my water colour pencils. Stuck two scalloped borders at the bottom. 

The buttons are from my stash and the ribbon was sponged with distress ink to match it. I have made this card earlier and it sold in a minute so I thought why not make another one as well. 

Below is a card that Aleeza made - all I did was to die cut the frogs and she coloured them in and also drew another little froggie on the card. She claims that the frog with the reddish orange lips is mama, the one with zig zag stripes is papa and the little red one is the baby. It is an evening sky with a purple moon. And there is lightening in the sky as well. Lol.

This is what she wrote inside...

Love, 

Monica 

Baby blue

Hello lovely bloggers,

Here is a quick card I made for http://mimchallegeblog.blogspot.com/ following the sketch. 

No stamping, lots of 3D stuff and lots of sticking. The little rectangles have been punched out of wall paper. Yes, I used to buy rolls of wall paper at discounted prices  when we used to live in London for my cards.

I hope the pink bow is permitted for baby boy card. But then the world has changed a lot now. Men wear pinks and magentas like nobody's business :-) and I am happy about that. 

The little horsey and baby sentiment were picked up at a very lovely craft store in Jakarta.
The ribbon was sent to me by dear Lynn and the buttons are from my stash. Quite happy with my button supply - seem to have almost every colour I am looking for.

Below is the sketch at http://mimchallegeblog.blogspot.com/ - apologies that I did not take a good picture.

This card took me all of 10 minutes to make - how cool is that!

I will also enter it in:

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://unstampabelleschallenges.blogspot.com/ - use one or more dies

Love,

Monica 

Craft sale to help dogs

Hello lovely bloggers,

Maria of Crafty Crea8tions  as some of you may know is a dog lover who spends a lot of her time at the animal rescue centre - walking the dogs and caring for them in ways more than one. 

She sells cards, holds fairs to raise monies to help dogs.

Maria is having a craft sale on April 20th and would be happy to receive donations of greeting cards, card sets  or craft items to sell. She would be happy even if you could do a post for her to increase traffic.

If you visit Maria at http://www.craftycre8tions.blogspot.com/p/craft-sale-for-pups.html 

it would give you a fair idea of what Maria does.

Many thanks,

Monica

All browns...

Hello sweet bloggers,

First of all a very warm welcome to Therese - my latest follower. Thanks for following my little blog.

Here is a card I made following the sketch at Blogger's challenge. 

The card stock is black and I have used a textured kraft like card stock on it. The printed paper has been hand torn and sponged on the edges. The jute mesh, buttons and jute string are from my stash. Now this could be a masculine card, right?

Down below is the sketch at Blogger's challenge

I will also enter this card in:
http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/ - anything goes
http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/ - simply create
http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.co.uk/ - use twine
http://stampedblessings.com/ - birthday

Wish you a pleasant week ahead.

Love,
Monica

Happy we have each other

Hello sweet bloggers,

I hope you are having a pleasant weekend. Here is a card I have made to for two challenges namely 

Less is More which is about friendship and CAS(e) this sketch.

I have used an Itty bitty stamp by Unity that I have had lying in my drawer for six months now. The ribbon is from American Crafts and the sentiment which says, "happy to have each other" is from the same set.

It is a rather flat card and I know I could have put some bling on the flip flops but I thought I would just let it be. Would love to hear what you think of my card.

Love,

Monica 

Home made flowers

Hello sweet bloggers,

Here is a card that I made following a sketch for  http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/. For some reason, I am unable to copy and paste the sketch. 

The border is a Martha Stewart punch and the yarn and mosaic are from my stash.

I made the flowers (with punches) while I was in my flower-making phase 

which does not seem to want to come back. Lol. Never mind, there is a thrill about putting on a ready made, store bought flowers as well. 

I will also enter this card in:

http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/ - use atleast 2 punches

http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://simplycreatechallenges.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

Phew, that is an awful lot of challenges - lol.

Thank God it's Friday.

Love,

Monica