A Gem of a Challenge - Male Birthday Card

Hi everyone, hope your weekend has been better than mine so far, i spent last night in hospital with post op complications and am feeling decidedly rough today, it looks like im going to have to have more surgery too ... boo!

Luckily I made today's card earlier this week, so the theme for this week at A Gem of a Challenge is Male Birthday card (must use word "Birthday" )

So here's what I did:

I used Andy with Snail and coloured him up with my fabulous new Graph'it Markers!

I don't remember the name of the papers, so sorry I lost the front cover.

I used a selection of dies on my card too from Die-Namics, spellbinders and Whimsy.

I finished off with some doodling round the edges.

Hope you like it!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, hugs xx Cara xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafts for eternity - spots and stripes
Jellypark - Masculine
My Heart pieces - use a digi
Crafting for all seasons - one for the guys
Sisterhood of crafters - all about the boys

"Emboss it" at A Gem of a Challenge

Happy Saturday all!

I hope today finds you well, i'm on my annual summer fitness kick so I started a new workout DVD called "30 Day shred" and my god my body aches in place i didn't realise I had muscles lol, i can barely walk down the stair! - ouch!

So anyhoo, today see's the start of a new challenge at A Gem of a Challenge and this week we would like to see you "emboss it".

This was a bit of a challenge for me as embossing has never been one of my most favourite techniques, I barely own and embossing folders or embossing powder but lucky I found one which matched perfectly with my image (I think the folder was a freebie off a mag)

So here's what I did:

I used one of the adorable new vintage images from Janet's lovely store, this one is Martha.

I used my promarkers to colour her in.

The papers are quite old, I think they are by Prima, and I used flowers from WOC and some Silky Crush ribbon and a charm from The Ribbon Girl.

For the embossing I used Core'dinations Whitewash and sanded it back to show the butterflies. I also used it on the inside too.

My card is quite dark and somber looking today .... unfortunately it's for a Sympathy card  ... never the easiest to make are they.

I hope you like my card and I would love to have you join our challenge this week.

Loadsa hugs xx Cara xx

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks - Flowers
Happy Campers - Metal (hope my charm is ok for this ladies?)
Tuesday Throwdown - Embossing
Whoopsi Daisy - Shabby Chic or Vintage