Coffee boy

Hello lovely people,

I have had a short working week as I had Monday/Tuesday off to catch up on my crafty projects, and am now enjoying a relaxing weekend at my parents' house.
I attended a great workshop on Saturday with my Mum and my fab crafty friend Debs, and we had a wonderful time getting inky and covered in glitter!
We walked to a brilliant local firework display in the evening and have been indulging in lots of gorgeous home-cooked food courtesy of my Mum; the white chocolate cheesecake with raspberry puree was a real highlight :-)

While we are sat relaxing with a coffee I thought I'd share the card I made for my brother's birthday.  He loves coffee just like me so I had a great reason to use my fab Greeting Farm stamp set again.  Last time I used it the end result was rather more girly as you can see here.

I coloured this with my Inktense pencils and am delighted that I have now figured out how to add finer details like the shadows that the hair casts on the face and clothing folds.

Since I was doing a masculine card I raided my stash of corrugated card again...I love this stuff!  I am pleased to report that I managed to buy some corrugated card and whilst it's not quite as distressed as this lovely recycled packaging, the colour is perfect and I guess I can have fun distressing it myself!

I hope you are all having super weekends whatever you are getting up to.

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Card recipe;

Image: Mini-remix brewtiful - The Greeting Farm

DP: Accomplished - Authentique

Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl
Faux hessian - The Ribbon Girl

Sentiment: Happy circular sentiments - LOTV

Dies: Cosmic star set - Memory Box

Inktense colours;
Skin: Baked Earth, Madder Brown, Saddle Brown
Hair: Oak, Bark, Ink Black
Jumper: Deep Indigo
Trousers: Oak
Shoes: Ink Black
Coffee cup: Oak, Iron Green

NEW LOTV vintage boys and cute animals

Hello lovely people,

We have a wonderful treat for you at the end of this week because there are two fantastic sets of new images being released from LOTV on Friday 28th, and I hope you are ready for a whole lot of cuteness!

This time there are 3 cute animal scenes and 4 fab vintage boys and I absolutely adore all of them.

To me, the vintage boys are a real LOTV classic and they are just so good for making masculine cards, so that's what I used for my first project.

One thing I love about these images is the wonderful detail in them and yet they are really easy and fun to colour...just look at this adorable little chap...

I made the little typewriter text strips on my computer and added a sweet little hammer charm, but my favourite detail on this card is the corrugated card because I really like the texture and interest it adds.

This particular bit of card was recycled from some packaging and has a lovely soft colour and texture, so I am sad that I only have a very little of it.

If anyone knows where I can get some corrugated card that looks anything like this (I definitely don't want very rigid corrugation) then do let me know!

I hope everyone's week is going well so far :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Card recipe;

Image: The Workbench - LOTV (coming soon!)

DP: Vintage Autumn Basics - Maja Design (available from Live and Love Crafts)

Ivory button twine - The Ribbon Girl

Hammer charm - The Ribbon Girl

Sentiment: generated on computer

Copic colours;
Skin: E000/00/21/11/04
Hair: E41/42/44
Workbench / hammer handle: E43/44/47
Box of tools / wood shavings: E41/42/43

Dungarees: B91/93/95/97

Shirt: W00/0/2

Hat / ground: W00/0/1/2/3/4

Boots: W4/5/7

Tool handles: B93/95/97

Tools: W0/2/3