One Man and His Truck

 Hello Nomad friends.  The new challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is For the Men.  Did I hear you groan???!!!!  Where's your spirit of adventure??  Your get up and go??  I know, it got up and went bwahahahahaaa.  But do not despair!   The team and I are going to inspire your socks off and masculine will be our new favourite topic, at least for this month LOL.

 

I started by digging out some game stamps, Carmen's Veranda Dice Background  and Lost Coast Designs Domino Border.  I stamped the dice background with midnight blue archival on pale blue card.  Then I stamped the domino border a few times on white card, fussy cut and added it as a frame around my background.  I stamped and Carmen's Veranda Old Truck with black archival ink on some UHK mottled blue patterned card and fussy cut.  Then I cut out the windows with a craft knife and backed them with a piece of the same UHK card.  WHY???!!   Why did I do that??  Answers on a postcard to me..........   Of course, it looks so much better because I did use a piece of the patterned card that was 2 tones lighter bwahaahhaaaaaaaa.  

 

 

Anyway, hop over and check out all the wonderful man makes.  The team has so many amazing ideas, and we even give a real red rubber prize when we get more than 20 entries in the linky.   New ideas will be added all month so grab you coffee and box of after eights and join us.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz  

 

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Kreativtanten Challenge 116 - Alles Geht 
Allsorts Challenge 855 - Colours of Summer opt AG 
Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks 762-763

 

Rip Tear Collage

Hello Nomad Friends.  Been having fun this evening ripping up some scraps to make this fun collage card.  I used blue scraps, and some very pretty patterned scraps from UHK Gallery that screamed loudly at the abuse!!

I went with a confirmation theme for a boy, since we were in the blues.  My collage is quite orderly me thinks.  The circle was lurking on the desk and seem a perfect addition behind the By Lene die cut word.  Love using these people silhouetes, the big bloke by Papirdesigns and the little football player is a Dixi Craft die.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Allsorts Challenge 850 - 17th Birthday Party
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Paper Funday Challenge 87 - Anything Goes opt Mountains or Coast 
Kaartjes Inspiratie Challenge 218 - Mannenkaart

Pop Up Egg

Hello Nomad friends.  I am having a creative day.  I was actually playing with Alice the other day, along with the queen of hearts, but the idea has progressed, and I gotta say I love the result!!!!

I had so much fun with this!!!    After all these years I still don't have a huge egg shaped die so I hand cut the egg shaped card.  Please excuse the wobbly edges.  The scene got built around Paper Nest Dolls Alice who was stamped on white card, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.  I used a piece of UHK Gallery patterned paper for the egg layer then scraps of patterned and plain card for my scene details.  I used Poppystamps Whittle Field and Tree die for the trees and the field, Poppystamps Leaping Little Bunnies dies for the little bunnies, and Poppystamps Echo Blossom dies for the clouds.  Hey, it's wonderland!!!   We can have flower shaped patterned paper clouds if we want.

Then I truly had a moment and turned it into an easel card, which made it perfectly wonderful!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Joining the fun at
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Snippets Playground Challenge 527 
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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make It Cute
Passion for Markers Challenge Week 827 - Lots Of Layers

 

Something Fishy

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you had a great weekend.  I spent two days dancing with a vicious little virus that came in Saturday morning with a hedgehog in my throat and then hit me with a herd of buffalos and left me feeling like a merry-go-round on a roller coaster.  Don't you just love it when annoying weekend visitors move along!!  Feeling very much more ooman today and found a sentiment to finish this A5 journal page I was working on.

I started with an A5 sheet of Marianne Designs Seabreeze papers.  I added some ripped dark blue strips and some dark blue glitter through a Rubber Dance stencil.  The light house and anchor are from UHK-Gallery Lighthouse papers, cut with Studio Light Mosaic ATC die.  I added an offset dark blue ATC behind each of these.  The fish were cut from some maritime themed wallpaper and the sentiment is ripped from a Prima journaling card.

OK, off to water the garden before my tomato plants give up totally. 
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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The Outlawz Challenge Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone 

The Outlawz Challenge August Linky

Allsorts Challenge 830 - Something Beginning with B B is for blue

Keep Swimming

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you have had a splendid day.  I started two projects this afternoon, in the hopes of getting one finished.  Hurrah, success, and the other one is only a few final details away from completion too, so definitely a win win day.  Actually, this one also had me stymied on which sentiment to use, so in the end I went with five!!!!!

I made a double Z-fold card with UHK-Gallery Lighthouse papers.  All the stamps and dies are Hero Arts.  

I cut the large Hero Arts Layering Koi Fish die from mirror card and added a little promarker colour.  The Koi Bunch were stamped on white card, coloured with sharpies and fussy cut.  Then I stamped sentiments from Hero Arts Where To Next, Kelly's No Comment and Kelly's All Decked Out stamp sets.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Die Cut Divas Challenge - Z-Fold
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Scrappelyst Sommerutfordring - Alt Er Lov 
Knutsels en Kadootjes - Vouwen Maar