Man Card Monday/Challenge card

 

Good Monday Morning Ladies,

I hope that you are all rested after the weekend, we all got some use out of our ................

I am thinking of asking Paul to modify it so that it has a hand rail, I don't want anyone trying to claim for damages if they fall while ranting!! 😂😂😉

I wanted you all to have something to smile about today, both the weather and the news left us with nothing much to smile about did it?!   So I included a cute pig 🐷 image!

We are all waiting to see what will happen with regards to everyone's jobs, Becca and the Girls workplaces will close for definite, Paul is classed as a Keyworker so he will continue as normal I guess, atleast he has the option to work from home with this new job.  I really think that this Lockdown will last longer than the month predicted, mostly because leaving the schools and Universities open will continue to spread the virus so I don't think we will get anywhere near the results we got last time. 

Janet your roast dinner was lovely yesterday, I have to say I always smile when I read your menu, I love that you say 'Afters' because that's what my Mum and her mum always said, rather than pudding/dessert 🍰!  What do you all refer to it as??

Now onto today's card, I ended up spending more time trying to decided what to use for my challenge cards than I did making the card.  I am trying to stick to 'Man Cards' on a Monday, if any of you want to make some to share I will gladly share them.  Anyway,  so I try to combine making a 'Man Card' with the current weeks challenge.  

So for this week I chose the Lovely As A Tree stamp set by Stampin up!.  

For the Birthday card I just added Mowed Lawn distress Oxide to a 'Paint effect' stamp and created a background to stamp the Fir tree onto, I then just added a simple 'The Happiest of Birthdays to you sentiment and added a piece of twine across the bottom.

I layered the card onto a piece of card that I blended the Mowed Lawn around to tie in the colour from the focal point, my card base is Kraft card as I think that works well with the fact that the stamp is a tree and the colour of the twine.  I hope you like my card. x

For the Christmas version......

I went 'Old School' for this card, using simple stamping techniques.  I masked off a rectangle in the centre of my card and added a light blend of 'Old Olive' ink, I then stamped my group of trees from the 'Lovely as a Tree' stamp set, I then placed the card in the Stamparatus Stamping tool and stamped my large Christmas tree (from the same stamp set), I re-stamped the tree several times to give a darker image.  I then added my sentiment which is from the new 'Colour Your Season' Stamp set.
I added a piece of narrow Old Olive ribbon and tied a simple knot, I mounted the decorative layer onto a piece of Old olive card and then onto a Very Vanilla card base.

I hope that my cards give you a little inspiration to get yours started, I have a few ideas for this challenge!

I hope that you all have a good day,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx