Men Garden Gnome - easy fun fold card

Hi everyone,

Today I`m sharing my latest card for Polkadoodles DT team and today it`s all about fathers day.

In Norway we actually celebrate fathers day the second Sunday in November, but many places like in the USA and UK they celebrate fathers day 16.th Juni this year so here is some inspiration for you. Make sure to check out what the Polkadoodles design team has made for this weeks challenge.

For this card I decided to use this fun little gnome gardening. I used the digital bundle Lawn Mover Gnome where you get lots of extra digital items to use on your card. 

I wanted to build a cute little scene so I decided to make a side step fun fold card that I decorated with a few images from the bundle that I colored with my Copic markers. I printed out a few trees in slightly different sizes, and did the same with the pots with plants. Next I fuzzy cut all the images I used befor I glued them on to create my scene, adding pop dots on some of the elements. My sentiment is also from the same bundle. The pattern paper is from the Gnome men gardening digital papers. 

Copic colores I used:

Skin: E04-11-21-00-000

Beard: W5-3-1-0

Outfit: B99-97-34-32,  E44-43-42-41

Lawn mover: R89-27-24-22-20

Grass and trees: G28-14-07, YG03, E29-25, R27

Pots: E97-25-23-21

I`m entering this card to:

Simon Says: Masculine | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Simon Says: Masculine | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

The Paper Shelter (shades of brown on gnome and trees)

Crafty Catz: Challenge #673 Plus redraw winner for #671 (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com)

CopicMarkerNorge: Utfordring #153 - GULT/ORANGE -  Alt går/ ATG

Classic Design Challenge Blog : Classic Design Challenge #05-2024 May/Jun - Anything Goes with Optional Twist: Masculine

Thank you so much for stopping by, I really hope you liked my card and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Cool music gnome - card for boy/men

Hi everyone,

Today I`m sharing my latest Polkadoodles DT card, and this time it`s all about these masculine cards for man/boy. Being a mom of boys myself, I have three, those cards sure come in handy. 

For today`s card I used the cool Music Record Collector Gnome digital stamp. I think he`s so fun and I loved coloring him with my Copic markers. The pattern papers are from the Gnome for men Music Record printable pattern papers. If you are looking for something to use for a masculine card, you should check out the Gnome for men collection. There are so many fun and cool images both precolored and images ready to be colored with your favorite coloring medium along with matching papers and sentiments.

Copic colors used:

Skin: E04-11-21-00-000

Hat: BG49-13-000

Outfit: BG78-75-72-000

Beard: T3-1, W1-0

Headphone: W9-7-5-3-1 and E09, YR27-24

 Records: T9-7-3   

I`m entering this card to:

Crafty Catz: Crafty Catz Challenge #671 (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com)

Challenge #595 - A Bit of a Giggle ~ The Paper Shelter

Facebook Copic Norge 

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you got some inspiration to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hugs,

Christine💮

Theatre inspired confirmation card

 Hi everyone,

Today I`m sharing a confirmation card I made for a son of some friends confirmation last weekend. I`m so happy with how this card turned out.

I made the card into a double gate fold card, getting the inspiration from the theatre curtains opening up to begin the show. This young man loves the theatre and is also a talented actor at the local youth theatre, so that`s where I got the inspiration for the theme of the card.  

For the card front, I used an old paper from KaisercraftsOn Stage collection. The striped blue paper is a digital pattern paper from Polkadoodle Gnome music bundle. The pattern paper with blue stars is from Papirdesign. The edge star die from Tim Holtz are cut out in black glitter paper and I used the same die and just cut the stars into smaller pieces to decorate inside my card making sure to place them as to help guide the eyes across the card.

This sentiment is from Papirdesign and it says: "Some people make the world special just by being in it".

The pictures are printed to the desired size at home and the main one is placed in an Insta frame that I stamped and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The sentiment says: "You are amazing".

On the backside of the card, there is a nice space to write a personal note.

I love how this card turned out, and thank you for letting me post this card here on my blog with pictures in it. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Hugs,

-Christine💮

Masculine Valentines card

 Hi,

Today is finally the day I can share some exciting news! I am a guest designer at The Male Room Challenge, and this month`s theme is valentine/ use a heart. 

I really enjoy playing along on The Male Room as this challenges me to make masculine cards. After all, I have three sons, and the challenge themes are fun to play along with. You should head on over and play along too. Lots of great inspiration from the DT as well as the other participants. 

For this card I decided to make a 6*6 card base in a very light brown/beige color. I backed my patterned paper with a dark brown cardstock as to double frame the image. I went stash diving for this pattern paper and found this from the old Time Machine collection from Kaisercraft. I`m so happy with this, it gave the exact feel I was going for with this card.

For my focal point I used heart strings embossing folder from Elisabeth craft that I`ve had forever. But I`m sure you can find something similar. I just used this embossing folder on another card, and I love how totally different cards you can make with the same products. I cut out a scallop heart with the nesting dies from Xcut and used foam dots to pop it up. The sentiment is actually a part of the papers zip strip and I glued it on a strip of the other side of the pattern paper so it matches perfectly in color. 

The metal leaves are from Prima and the light brown and brown dots are from Papirdesign. To grunge it up a little I punched holes and put in some eyelets in brass on each side of the sentiment. I love the saying:"The best things in life are the people we love". How true is that!

You can join the challenge here: 

I`m playing along:

Simon Says: Love Is In The Air | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Crafty Catz: Crafty Catz Challenge #664 (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com)

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you like my card and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Hugs,

-Christine