Dragon Boy

Well somehow I blinked and suddenly my baby boy has turned 4. He is very excited about his birthday and we're all looking forward to a tea party later. To be honest, he wasn't really bothered about having a handmade card (he chose himself a Minion card with a badge!) but I wasn't going to let that stop me!

This image is a Sherri Baldy My Bestie called Dragon Boy. He is such a cutie and available to buy in the My Bestie Shop. I've coloured him with Spectrum Noir markers, choosing red as my main colour as it's always been my son's favourite colour. Colours used were:
Face FS2 FS4 CR2
Hair TN1 EB1 EB2
Dragon Wings and Tail CR8 DR1 DR3
Jeans/ Eyes TB1 TB2

I've used papers from Graphic 45- they're from the Mother Goose 12x12 Paper Pad. The stars have been cut with an XCut die and Palm Punch.

In all the excitement of the last few days, I forgot to share some great news last week. The 2 Crafty Girls Challenge Blog is restarting on December 10th and I'm delighted to be a member of the new Design Team. All of the other DT members are amazingly talented so please do take a look at this post to find out more about them.

Thank you for visiting today, I really appreciate all of your comments. Cathy x

Dreams come a size too big...

This cute little card, with it's lovely sentiment, features a Scruffy Little Kitten stamp from Crafter's Companion called Charlie. As mum to 2 boys, these stamps were a must buy- others in the collection include a rugby player and footballer so perfect for my boys and their friends.

I've coloured the image Spectrum Noir markers and combined it with papers and a tag from the Scruffy Little Kitten cd-rom. 

I finished the card with some Docrafts Vintage Notes buttons and a stamped sentiment from the same stamp set. I just love the sentiments that come with these stamps, lovely messages to share with children, I think.

I would like to enter this card for Fantasy Stampers Challenge #43 Boy's Rule

Thanks for visiting my blog today xxx

Another Football Crazy card

Regular visitors to my blog will know that, in May, I made a card for my football mad son, which featured my first attempt at colouring using Spectrum Noir markers. Tomorrow, he is off to party for one of his friends from his football team, so I have had the chance to use this cute footballer stamp again.
Although this little boy is also a Chelsea fan, he always wears the away kit to training, so I have used yellow markers for this image. I've kept the background fairly simple and used papers from the Crafter's Companion Angelica and Adam boy's paper pad. I think these colours work really well together and are perfect for a summer birthday.
Products used:
Spectrum Noir Markers:
Skin FS2 FS3

Hair GB8 GB10
Clothes CT3 CT4 TB5 Boots IG8 IG10
Grass DG3

Crafter's Companion Angelica and Adam 6x6 Boy's Paper Pad, Adam Stamp
Docraft's Papermania A4 card
Momento Ink in Tuxedo Black

I would like to enter this card for this week's Mod Squad Challenge

Thanks for visiting today, please leave a comment if you have time,

Cathy xxx

Football Crazy

My eldest son will be 7 next week and is totally football crazy. I wanted to make him a special card so decided to put my colouring skills to the test to personalise a football image. I am a complete novice when it comes to colouring so it was a big challenge for me.

The stamp used is Adam from Crafter's Companion. I used Spectrum Noir pens for colouring- I have coloured the boy's clothes in Chelsea colours (my son is a huge supporter of theirs) and tried to match my son's hair colour.

I embossed a piece of Core'dinations cardstock with a football embossing folder and arranged this and the stamped image on a football background. I added die cut bunting, some twine and an age rosette to finish. I'll blog some instructions to make a rosette in my next post 

Products Used:

Spectrum Noir pens- Shirt TB5 TB6, Hair GB5 GB8 TN4, Skin FS2 FS3, Boots and ball Black IG10, Grass LG3 CG1

Core'dinations Tim Holtz Distress Inks Card in Faded Jeans

Crafter's Companion Angelica and Adam 6x6 male pad, Adam stamp, Football embossing folder. 

Crafter's Companion dies- Bunting and 1" Numbers

Football card from Touch of Craft

Momento ink in Tuxedo Black and Paris Dusk

Baker's twine

I am entering this for the Spectrum Noir Facebook Challenge Use a Die Cut Shape