Trio for the Different Guy

 Hi! I've 3 easy projects for Tuesday...all based around this week's theme. Hand on heart, this is the category of cards that no matter who I talk to, everyone says they find it a challenge. So I've gone for 3 different styles...for the non-beer, non-car, non-golf lovin' type of guy! (or sailing...why are there so many cards with sailing boats on?!)

This card could be a funny one..or even a cute one. It started out with a smiley face on the toilet roll but that just looked weird. You could make up a sentiment about life being a bit rubbish...linked with the loo roll ;-) 

 Thought I'd revisit a really simply technique using a stencil that gives an extra dimension to your project- using this Hero Arts Stencil

 Grab one of those rubbery mats and put the rubber on the bottom, the cardstock on top and lastly the stencil. I always want to put the cardstock on top but this way gets a sharp result.

You can see the texture better below- just as if you've used an embossing folder. You can see how I've begun to create my toilet roll holder

I used this Lawn Fawn set (which would be great for a baking guy too!)

Just chop the rolling pin in half and re-attach it, overlapping it to make it shorter.



Now simply cut up toilet roll so you've a long thin strip to wind around the base. As I sat there trimming loo roll I wondered quite what lofty heights I've attained that have resulted in creating with Andrex ;-)

The paper behind the main panel is the Avery Elle 'Everyday Collection' which is hands down my favourite paper pad (& it's double sided too!). The Sentiment is from the super-useful Altenew set 'Sentiments & Quotes'

 

Now onto two more quickies. With the first, I had my Dad in mind when I made it...he's an architect so buildings are his thing. Add some swooshes of watercolour and stamp over it with the Sketchy Cities. The sentiment is from the set above using the Ombre Ink Pads



And lastly.. a little tag for a little boy (or robot type geeky guy!)

 Using Kelly Purkey's set

 Hope that's a little inspiration to get you sorting out all those complex guys in your life ;-p

See you next week,

Keren xx

Butterflies to brighten a dreary day!

Hi! It's that time of year where any injection of colour is welcome- particularly on a cold and dreary day!
I got stamping up a ton of these beautiful butterflies from the Altenew set 'Painted Butterflies'

I've also added the sentiment from the Sentiments and Quotes set- which is on special offer at the moment too!

The multi-step images are easy enough to line up and the beautiful thing about this set is that if it's not lined up perfectly- it just adds to the arty-ness of it all ;-)
Any stamp set that hides my mistakes is a great one in my book!
I've only stamped and trimmed out each butterfly- keeping it really simple. This set looks amazing watercoloured or using copics after stamping the outline only.
Do go and get a set- there's just about enough to go around ;-)

Well I need to fly… wouldn't it be lovely to have wings?!!

See you next week,

Keren xx