Happy Fathers Day

Good Morning everyone

My parents booked last minute to go to France for 6 weeks so I had to get a card made for dad for fathers day fast.   I bought this old bus stamp from aall&create in a sale earlier in the year which I thought would be ideal for dad.

Card size approx 6x4.5".    I stamped the bus and watercoloured green with inktense pencils and cut out.  I made my card base from green card by die cutting 2 shapes and adhering together with a hinge on the back one. 

I die cut a smaller shape from white card and embossed with a 3d cog embossing folder which I then lightly inked over with black soot distress ink to give it some depth and feel of oily cogs.

I die cut a piece of black card with a scalloped edge and adhered to the bottom of the white panel and then the card front.  I added the bus with glue gel and then added some white lines on the road with white inktense pencil - i went with wonky lines to go with the quirky bus for a bit of fun.

Sentiment stamped in black on strip of white card, matted onto black, adhered with foam tape and 2 green gel dots added to finish.

Showing it stood up.  I added glossy mod podge to the windows to give a subtle glass like effect when the light hits it.

items Used:

aall&create stamp set #1113 'Brit stop bus pop'

Tim Holtz Sizzix 3d embossing folder #662715 'mechanics'

MFT scalloped edge die

stitched nesting dies

Derwent inktense pencils

white, black & green card

Thank you for stopping by once again.  Its been an eventful week and I won't be having a 3rd injection of the new MS medication after I ended up being sent to A&E with anaphylactic shock......now of all the side effects I had considered that wasn't one of them! lol   So been feeling very fragile last few days and glad I got well ahead on my DT makes etc....So please forgive for not commenting on your makes, hopefully a few quiet days and I perk up a bit. 

Big hugs to you all. Emmaxx

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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