Robot Birthday

Good Morning everyone, i hope you had a good weekend.

Today im sharing a card i made for one of my brother's birthdays, being an engineer he is more into machines than animals so i went with this robot theme, dug out some rusty metal effect papers and my hexagon dies picking up on the shape of 'nuts' as in 'nuts & bolts'😁

Card size approx 7x7".  I first die cut my 'nuts' from a paper pack that has lots of different rusted metal effects, i used a hexagon on the outside and small circle die on the inside.  I embossed a piece of silver holographic mirror card with a cog embossing folder.  I arranged my nuts on this, matted onto a strip of black card and then across the middle of a white die cut hexagon. I mounted this onto black card then a white card blank, cutting to the hexagon shape.

I die cut my robot from white cardstock, doodled around thes edge with black pen and coloured him with grey alcohol markers.  I added more of the silver holographic behind him to shine through his eyes and holes in his body😀.  I die cut a white circle, silver circle and blue paper circle, attached my black die cut sentiment circle and added the robot in the middle.

Die cut screw heads from scraps of the metal effect paper added in the corners to finish.

A close up on the robot. 

Items Used:

Robot die

MFT birthday sentiment circle die

Spellbinders circle dies

Stitched hexagon dies

Spellbinders nuts and bolts die

Metal effect papers (lost the front page with brand name)

Papermania cog embossing folder

Silver rainbow holographic card

Black cardstock - payper box

White linen cardstock - craftUk ltd

Blue grey alcohol markers

Thank you for all stopping by once again.  I hope you have a good week. Emma

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Steampunk

Good Morning everyone, i hope you had a good weekend. 

Today im sharing my first post after being invited to join the design team for 

the cardz4guyz challenge blog.  As most of you know i make alot of male cards so quite enjoy making them.  

The theme this fortnight is

Science-Fiction Or Steampunk

both are a bit of a challenge for me, after searching all my stash I found these steampunk digi images as the starting point. 

7x7 White cardblank.  I first designed the background using serif craft artist & the digi kit by daisytrail 'Steampunk Emporium'  I cut this into a square and mounted onto Navy blue cardstock and then the base.

 I then printed the crow off twice and decoupaged him, i added a die cut hat and some glossy accents to him.  I die cut cogs from silver mirror card and added a touch of blue paint to them, to tone down the silver and tie in with the blue in the crow.  A couple of bolts cut from orange mirror card, these i used a permanent pen on to tone the colour down, add the pen wait a little for it to start drying and then rub off - gives a nice aged effect on mirror card. 

I added a metal word band with screw top brads to finish.  It says ; 

'Possibility begins with imagination'

A close up.

Items Used:

Serif Craft Artist

Daisytrail 'Steampunk emporium' (discontinued)

Cheerylynn cog dies

Spellbinders 'nuts & bolts' die S2-288

Hat die - unknown 

Tim Holtz ideology word band

Screw top brads

Glossy Accents

So if you fancy joining in and see what the rest of the design team and entrants come up with do hop over to cardz4guyz 

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you all have a good week and the sun shines on you all. Emma

Male Birthday cards

Good Morning..

Today im sharing 2 male cards i made, once again i used alcohol inks on silver mirror card, its a nightmare to take decent photo of it though.  The finished effect is brilliant.

6x5.5" white cardblank.  I then embossed a piece of silver mirror card and used purple, blue & green shades of alcohol ink on a blending pad to colour it.  I then cut it into 3 panels and mounted onto grey pearl card and added to the card base.  This embossing folder from spellbinders is actually 5x7" so on cutting up the sections i used the label section to add my sentiment.  

I die cut various cogs from white card and layered up with 'screw tops' die cut from silver mirror card.

This 2nd card is made the same way but mounted on a black 6x5.5" card base instead. 

Close up trying but not really succeeding in showing the colour better! 

Items Used:

Spellbinders Mbossibilities folder - EL-017 Industrial

Spellbinders De-lites 'S2-228 - Nuts & Bolts'

Cheerylynn cog dies

Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol inks

Birthday sentiment die

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Alcohol Ink Mirror Card

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you all have a good Easter weekend and enjoy whatever you get upto.  Emma

Mens Birthday DIY theme shutter card

Good Morning all, i hope you had a good weekend.

So its time for another new challenge over at Make My Monday, the theme this fortnight is:

FANCY FOLDS

I made this DIY themed shutter card for my brothers birthday, he is an engineer and often fixing something or other.  

Using the tattered lace shutter card die i cut the blank from white card.  Then using the matting dies in the set i cut them from wood panel pattern paper.  I then die cut lots of tools, cogs, nuts from silver holographic card and turquoise pearl card.  I then cut the handles from the tools and glued onto the silver version.  

Using mixed alpha dies i cut 'Mr Fix It' from green cardstock.  Id had the landrover decoupaged made up for months and thought this card was perfect as my brother also drives a landrover. 

Showing the left hand side of the card, i added the landrover so it looks like its driving out of the card.

Showing the right hand side better.  Shows the colour better.

And the back of the card, i die cut another woodpanel patten paper in a paler colour so that the greeting can be written on easily.  I then added all the left over tools, die cut birthday sentiment.  

Items Used: 

Tattered Lace Shutter die set

Various tool dies

Papermania Mr Smiths Workshop papers.

Dufex landrover decoupage

So if you fancy joining in and to see the rest of the DT's work just pop over to make my monday

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and below is the second card i made for my brother. 

Black A5 cardblank, i then matted corrugated metal pattern paper onto copper satin card, added screw top brads to the 4 corners and matted onto the black base.  The robot topper i printed out twice from a daisytrail kit and decoupaged the 2nd one and added glossy accents.  I placed him behind a black glossy cog frame and matted onto copper satin card before adding the the base.

Items used:

Daisytrail Robot Rust digikit

Papermania Mr Smiths workshop papers

Cog frame die

Birthday sentiment die 

Thank you for stopping by and all your wonderful comments last week.  I hope you all have a good week and the weather is better.  Emma

A collective of Robots

Good Morning everyone, i hope you are having a good week. 

So today im sharing a set of robot cards, based a my last design, but all with a slight tweak.  These will go into my charity card box. Ideal for children and men i think. 

Grey pearl cardstock 5x5 card blanks, i rounded opposite corners just to add interest.  White card embossed with various embossing folders.  Cogs cut from various mirror, satin & pearl cardstock. I built up my robots with the same mirror, stain, pearl card. 

Close up to show the colour better.  To stamp the sentiment i used clearly besotted stamp and as it is clear i stuck it to my block on a curve to follow the circle. 

I had great fun making these up.  

Items used:  Robot die from china.

Cheerylynn Cog/gears dies B340

Memory box alpha dies 'parker'

Clearly besotted ' sweet little sentiments'

Embossing folders, crafters companion - brick wall, sizzix tim holtz cogs/gears, sizzix dots, docrafts clocks

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Thank you for stopping by and all your comments on monday. Emma 

HB2U robot boys birthday card

Good Morning all, another week gone, where do they go so fast? A few snow flurries down here, but don't expect we will have much, hopefully you don't either, stay warm.

So today im sharing the second card ive made with my robot dies, its for a young teenage boy, so i used text speech for the happy birthday to you, plus it fitted on the card better! 

5x5 grey pearl cardblank, i then embossed the white card with a cog design.  I built the robot from grey pearl, blue, gold & red mirror card from my bit box.  White & grey circle frames offset, 3 blue eyelets set into the frame. Cogs then cut from the same colours of mirror card.

Close up, the blue mirror on the robot is mottled, not sure why but think it kind of gives a distressed look, after all this is one hard working robot! 😊

Just showing the mirror card better.

While  i was making this and the last robot card i kept thinking i could do with some 'nuts & bolts' dies, often thought that in the past when making male cards too, have you seen any in your crafty travels or do you think you would love to have some nuts and bolts dies?, as a friend asked Robert Addams if he would consider making some, if enough of us ask him then possibly he would.  So if you think you would use them then dropping him a line would be great. Link to his website below

http://www.papercrafts.co.uk/

Thank you for looking and all your comments last week.  I hope you all have a good weekend and keep warm.  Hugs Emma