Male twist & pop

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing the card i made for my brothers birthday.  I made my first twist and pop design and went with a DIY & robot theme as his hobby is metal work, creating amazing things out of scrap metals.

Approx size 6x5"  Using a template from pinterest which took  me to this crafters blog and a very easy step by step twist&pop

I made the twist and pop mechanism from 300gsm white card and then the cardbase.  I then dug out some old papers with a metal plate design and trimmed to the size of the panels and attached. I then glued the twist and pop panel into the cardbase and covered those panels with the black nuts and bolts paper. 

For the front of the card i die cut the sentiment and tools from white card and coloured with orange and blue alcohol markers, i also die cut the tools from silver mirror card, i cut off the coloured handles and glued onto the silver ones. I added the sentiment to a white circle and mounted them all on the card front.

I die cut the robots from white card and coloured with alcohol markers, grey for the bodies and a mix of blue and orange for their arms/legs etc.  I backed them with silver mirror card which shines through their eyes etc. I attached these to the pop out sections.

I did also add a die cut oval panel to the bottom to write the greeting on but forgot to take a photo after that.

A close up on the robots.

For  my first attempt with the twist and pop i was very happy with the outcome and i know my brother will be intrigued how it works - who ever created this first must have an amazing mind!

Thank you all for stopping by once again.   Stay safe everyone.  Hugs Emmax

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Id love to enter the following with my robot card

http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2021/01/anything-goes-challenge-january-5th-2021.html

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http://getcreativechallenges.blogspot.com/2021/01/ch-97-agno-twist.html

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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

Id love to enter the following:

https://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.com/2020/01/challenge-125-anything-goes.html

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http://diesruschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/01/dru-challenge-137-birthdays.html

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http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2020/01/hls-january-anything-goes-with-dies.html

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https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/01/challenge-24.html

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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 

Nuts about you!

Good Morning all, welcome to another week.

So today im sharing a fun card, could be ideal as a male valentine or birthday. 

I first created the frame and sentiment using craft artist daisytrail Robot's digikit and printed out 3 copies, one for the base, the second one i cut the frame and the 3rd one i cut the nuts and bolts off and layered over the base one.  I then die cut my robots in steel satin card and backed with scraps of pink and orange mirror card and then added different coloured card back in for the eyes and mouth.   I then die cut cogs to layer onto the frame.  I covered the sentiment,nuts & bolts in glossy accents. Bronze pearl drops on the frame to act like rivets. 

Close up and it shows the light hitting the mirror and satin card better.  Its not quite as dark as the photo.  

Thank you for looking and all your amazing comments last week.  I hope you all have a good week. Emma