Sense of Time...

Here is a card that I have made for my brother in law whose birthday was a few weeks ago (never got around to posting this one!) I have used the colours elegant eggplant and soft suede a perfect combination for a male card I think. I don't always like to use blues and like the depth to this colour. I have stamped the image and then inked the edges and rounded the corners of both the image and the sentiment. I have then mounted this on soft suede and then again on elegant eggplant. I have not rounded the corners of the layers to add a contrast. I have tilted the sentiment at an angle and used an elegant eggplant card blank.
I love this stamp set and have to admit I use it more often than not for male cards - all family members and friends get them :-)
I hope you like the card and thanks for looking!. I have managed to do a lot more crafting than I expected this week due to my early unexpected leave from work to start my career break - so here is to more regular posts, more challenges completed, happy boys, a manageable washing pile, clean floors and made beds! hoorah!
Check back early next week for a couple more cards! Debbi x x x
STAMP SET sense of time
CARD elegant eggplant, soft suede
INK elegant eggplant
ACCESSORIES corner rounder, dauber

Inspiring Inkin Challenge - 20

This week over on Inspiring Inkin there was a colour challenge and how good they were! So right for the time of the year, prehaps I should have been downstairs with the hubby instad of in the bedroom crafting LOL! However I was drinking a glass of asti that he bought (half way there!) These colours go so well together - I know that I more often than not overlook using basic grey and automatically go for black I assume this is just what we grow accustomed to and never really give it a second thought.

I decided to move away from the LOVE theme and use a stampset that I again often pass over for something else - the Stampin Up! set Sense of Time - My dads birthday is coming up and I am going to make him some things using this set - including the card so a practise was in order!

I have used a basic grey card blank, with a piece of DSP from tea party that includes the colour pretty in pink, I have thwn over this stamped the cogs from sense of time all over the DSP. I have stamped both the image and the sentiment in real red and on very vanilla card stock and mounted this on basic grey. To decorate I have used three buttons a neutral, pink and red.

I hope you like the card and thanks for looking - your comments are appreciated - Debbi x x x

STAMPSET: sense of time

CARD STOCK: basic grey, very vanilla

DSP: tea party

INK: pretty in pink, real red