A mans card

I made this card as an order for a customers father who is a steam train fanatic. I know it's ok to show it now as his birthday was yesterday.

My remit for this card was just a card for dad with a steam train on it.

My first challenge was finding a nice picture of a steam train, I found a couple on the internet and a couple on cd's that I had. I chose this one as it was bright and colourful. I printed it out four times then used my nesties to cut out four decreasing sizes, then layered them up in pyramage fashion.

I matted on some textured gold card and used a backing paper from Sheena's cd. Then cut out two circle borders using two Spellbinder border dies put together, this is to highlight the train wheels( or what ever you call them).

I received a lovely comment from the customer saying she loved the card and her dad would be thrilled.

I am entering it into these challenges

Totally Papercrafts - Male card

Thanks for looking

Hugs Sue x

A few of my latest cards

Saturday sketch - #97

Heres another Man of the match card, this time following Terry's sketch on the Saturday Sketch - #97

Again I coloured the image with Distress Inks, but this time layered some papers from a forever friends pad for men.

I used footballs cut from patterned paper to decorate around the image. The wording came from the same Moments in Time stamp set.

Man of the Match

Here's my first challenge card in ages. I couldn't wait to try my new Flower Soft - Moments in time stamps.
I stamped the man of the match and coloured the image using Distress Inks.

I layered coloured and embossed card, along with football stamped card following Tina's sketch on Stamp with fun - challenge 52.

As its a football card I didnt want to use flowers, so I used more stamped and coloured footballs.
I am also entering this card into the Allsorts challenge #46 - No DP's

Anyone for Cocktails

Please don't adjust your screens, this is supposed to be black, white and shades of grey. Not quite sure how it came to be, the image I chose and coloured first was a pink poodle sipping drinks. Then I changed my mind and I stamped out Charlie 007, unfortunately my colouring makes him look slightly tatty and not at all 007.

Still I'm going to enter him into this weeks Cute Card Thursday challenge - midnight margaritas.
I followed the sketch on the Cupcake challenge- #65. Then coloured him in using Zig Brushables, I added a few sparkle bubbles above his glass with stickles. The papers are from Papermania, layered on black gloss card.
I didn't think that proper flowers really went with this card, so I made
the embellishments myself from a piece of the paper that had circles in different sizes on it, I cut them out sprayed them with water, scrunched them up and gently opened them out, then sprayed with a little silver glitter spray from Crafters Companion. Next I layered them up and put a silver faux brad (card candy from Craftwork Cards) in the centre.

I finished the card with a piece of ribbon and black gems from stash, and some wording. Not sure which company the wording stamp was from, it was just an unmounted one I picked up at Port Sunlight earlier this year.
Sorry but my photos aren't very good and although they look quite dull in my pictures, the card in real life looks pretty good and quite glitzy.