Gearing Up for the Guys !!

Hello there, happy Monday morning to you :)

I'm continuing the week long theme of masculine projects with a card and gift box for the guys who like pedal power!! I've used the older set from Avery Elle called Roll with it, I love the detail on the bike right down to the slight shadow under the wheels. I used the mountain bike image to stamp out a pattern on my card base and then used grey stazon ink to stamp an image onto vellum too.

I've used the vellum as a wrap on the card and lined up the bicycle with the pattern.... love how it makes the  one stand out whilst the others fade into the background :)

To hide the adhesive holding the vellum to the card, I used a strip of blue card as a wrap down the spine and stamped it with one of the Wplus9 Borders and Backgrounds 4 for a tone on tone pattern. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawns Beep Boop Birthday.

I made a Matchbox style gift box to go with the card... ideal for a puncture repair kit or similar cycling gift or how about filling it with sweets ;)

You can easily find many templates and tutorials online for this style of box and they are easy to make up, here's the net shape of the drawer part of my box, this size can be made from an A4 piece of card :)

When folded and adhesive applied, the tray looks like this... 

The sleeve is best made by literally wrapping the card and scoring around your tray piece... this way you can ensure a snug fit. I used white card again but you can go colour crazy if you wish :) I've used a small circle punch to make finger gaps on each end of the draw.. not sure why as the idea is you push the drawer from one end!!

To decorate I then made a band to go around the box which also prevents the tray from sliding open, I created a variation on the card design using the same products but using the Happy Trails Stamp set from Lawn fawn for the sentiment instead :)

Here are the products used for my project today, click on them to take you to the store  :)

              

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Project Life DIY!!!

Hi there :0) I have something a bit different today!!

I've been pondering around the idea of starting a project life album, those fabulous core card kits look just so scrummy and the thought of speedy scrapbooking is attractive too :0)
When you actually look at the designs in some of those kits though I couldn't help thinking I could use the stamps I already have to make my own.....

I'm a bit of a procrastinator so knowing which photos to start with was hopeless so I thought I'd just get some ideas for core and journal cards out of my head and into real life and hopefully the photos and album will come later :0)

These two are cut with the Lawn Fawn 3x4 journal card die and I've used the tandem from Roll With It the solid speech bubble negative stamp from Oh Yeah and the wording is from Paper Smooches set called Captured Moments which is an ideal set for scrapbooking :0)

This one is cut using the larger Lawn Fawn Journal card die and stamped with the typewriter from Just A Note and the scroll of paper is stamped on white card, cut out and inserted through a slit in the top of the typewriter. The wording is again from Paper Smooches Captured Moments stamp set .... I was leaving the left handside for a photo or journaling :0)

These last two are cut using dies from My Favourite Things but to be honest you don't really need fancy dies as long as you have a ruler and a craft knife... a corner rounder is an optional extra!! I've used the long and short brushstrokes from Avery Elle's Brushed on both of these cards... the long one makes a great striped background for that sketchy camera in #Smile and I used a versamark pen to colour the heart with sticky ink before adding gold embossing for a touch of glamour :0) The torn edge notecard has been stamped with Lawn fawns SchoolHouse Backdrops for the lined paper look and the Hello is from the same Avery Elle set mentioned above :0)

If Project Life or pocket scrapbooking is somethng you've thought about trying I encourage you to take a look at your stamps and see what designs you could turn them into, you'll have a great time being creative and making your pages even more personal :0)

Oh and before I go just a quick reminder it's an Anything Goes challenge over at Paper Smooches Sparks this week, here's my DT card for this week featuring the mad scientist from Great Chemistry. Please pop over and see the DT inspiration and play along too, it would be great to see you in the gallery :0)

Jenny x