Summer Soiree IG Card Hop - Week 3

Hello friends; we've made it to the middle of the week *yay*. The weather has been quite showery here this morning in South Wales but it's still quite warm and muggy!  Wesley the puppy isn't impressed with the rain so we are back to the puppy pads inside!  Let's hope it dries up for the rest of the day/week.  We're never happy are we lol!

It's week 3 of our Summer Soiree IG card hop, which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  This week is all about 'The 4th of July', although there is an option for fireworks, colours of your flag or red, white & blue if you don't celebrate.  

Obviously not being the USA I don't really need to make 4th of July cards so I went with a red, white and blue colour scheme instead.  Me and hubby are also celebrating our 31st Wedding Anniversary today so decided to combine the two.  Here is my card:

A close look at the cute image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping my images onto alcohol marker friendly card before colouring them with Promarkers.  I used the matching dies to cut them out.  My card base is 5" x 7" so wanted my panel to be 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" so cut my 3 sections of red. white and blue card approximately 4 1/2" x 2.2" each and attached them to some copy paper with double sided tape.  I also added a panel of white card behind for extra stability.  I die cut the happy anniversary and husband words from white card, stacking them each three times to give them some extra dimension.  I added the cute images with foam squares and the words and hearts with liquid glue.  For the inside I cut 3 strips of red, white and blue card 4 1/2" x 3/4" and adhered them to the bottom of a white panel with double sided tape.  I stamped the image over the strips with black ink and added a white heart with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre of the panel with black ink.  This panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  A really fun card and I hope you like it. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

AAA Colourful challenge - colour board #5

Addicted to Stamps and More challenge - make your mark

Alphabet challenge - G is for gentlemen

Cardz for Guyz challenge - ATG masculine

Colourful Options challenge - flags (UK flag/USA flag)

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG include an animal

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Cut It Up challenge - critters (real or fantasy)

Everybody Art challenge - we love stamping

Get Creative challenge - red, white and blue

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option pink, blue & yellow

Moving Along With The Times challenge - CAS

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - add some red, white and/or blue

The Male Room challenge - animals

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist critter crazy

Unicorn challenge - not square (my card is 5 x 7)

If you would like to follow the hop over on Instagram please use the hashtag #summersoireecardmakinghop2024 to find us or alternatively visit my profile and you will find the list of participants on my post.  We would love it if you would give the summer soiree challenges a try and again use the hashtag and we will find your projects.  

I'll be back tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge but until then enjoy the rest of your day and thank you for stopping by. 

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

MFT - I'm so in love with you, still stamp & die

Crafts-Too - happy anniversary die

Heffy Doodle - husband die (store now closed sadly)

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card 

MFT - baby rattle (for the tiny hearts) - retired

Promarkers

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

red and blue card from scraps bin

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Pinwheel card

Hello crafty friends.  I hope you've had a fantastic weekend and even if you are not a royalist you enjoyed the Coronation bank holiday.  I loved watching all the pomp and ceremony and the tradition was definitely a sight to see.  I think for those watching from abroad it must have seemed magical.  It was just a shame that the weather was so bad.

I'm sharing my first ever pinwheel card that I made for my son's 29th birthday.  I originally bought a die to cut the card shape but it was too small for what I wanted so I just made my own.  I think it worked out ok, even if I couldn't make an envelope big enough to fit it in lol (the size when laid flat was 12 1/2" x 7 1/2")!  He has been a drummer for many years, and was even in a band at one point, so every year I try to incorporate drumming into his card.  

This post is going to be photo heavy as it was really hard to photograph.  

The main components are from MFT stamps, but the large sentiment is Lawn Fawn, the personalisation is Gina K Designs and the verse is Honey Bee Stamps.  I tried to stick to a colour scheme of black, red, white and grey as I think these colours work really well together.  

Here is my card 

close up detail of the die cuts:

All the die cuts were stacked up at least 3 high for added stability.  I am really happy with the finished result and thankfully my son loved it too and appreciated all the hard work I put into it.  Fair play to him he is my biggest cheerleader and takes an interest in my cardmaking.  

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - inspired by music 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - no patterned paper

Mix it up challenge - ATG - option embossing

Craft Rocket challenge - for the boys

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - fun folds +/- summer fun

Crafty Calendar challenge - anything but square

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG - option make it masculine

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful week.

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

MFT - keep on rockin' die-namics

MFT - keep on rockin stamp set

MFT - headphones die-namics

Lawn Fawn - giant happy birthday die

Lawn Fawn - Henry's ABC dies

Quickutz - Nesting stars dies

Gina K Designs - grand gentlemen stamp set

Honey Bee Stamps - Inside: birthday sentiments

Gina K Designs - soft stone ink pad & red velvet ink pad

Versafine - onyx ink pad

Hobbycraft UK - black cardstock

All other card from my scraps bin

Crafts Too - musical notes embossing folder

Passion for promarkers #129–midway reminder & DT card

Good morning dear friends.  I’m here this morning as we are midway through our Mega Christmas challenge over at passion for promarkers challenge and it is the turn of team 1 to offer some more inspiration.  I am lucky enough to be on both team 1 and team 2 so I can share another card with you today.  As you know the theme is “celebrations” and the challenge will run until 3rd January 2012.  We have some amazing prizes up for grabs which you can read all about in my original post here.  Don’t forget you must use your promarkers, flex markers, aqua markers or tria markers to be eligible for one of our fantastic prizes and obviously follow the very simple theme.  Here is my card:

My son asked me to make an 18th birthday card for his friend, and as he plays guitar in a band with my son I had to use this fantastic image from Kenny K called ‘rock dude’.  I coloured the image with promarkers and flex markers and cut out the image using my neglected rectangle nesties.  I embossed one half of the card with a perfect musical note embossing folder and added some twine and pearls.  Again another fuss free card as if my son’s friend is anything like my son, then this will be perfect.  Most boys this age will just glance at it anyway lol! 

The rest of design team 1 have created amazing samples so please pop over to the challenge blog and check them out.  We really appreciate the lovely comments you leave for us. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Here comes the boys challenge – rock n roll

Kenny K’s krafty girlz challenge – anything goes

Cute card Thursday challenge – stripes

Dutch dare challenge – tic-tac-toe (pearls, distressing, embossing) 2nd entry

Simply create too challenge – embossing

Totally papercrafts challenge – time to party

Secret crafter Saturday challenge – new year/celebration (18th)

Paper sundaes challenge – celebrate

Paper playtime challenge – anything goes + sentiment

Stamps & fun = creativity challenge – your favourite material (paper!!)

Stampavie and more challenge – use red

I hope you can join in with our challenge, but don’t forget you can only enter this challenge a maximum of 3 times.  I look forward to visiting your blogs and seeing all your wonderful creations.  Have a great day and thanks so much for stopping by today.

Card ingredients:

Image: Kenny K – ‘rock dude’

Papers: sorry can’t remember!, SU real red cardstock

Tools: promarkers, flex markers, pearls from the hobby house, rectangle and circle nesties, sentiment created on pc, twine from stash, crafts too music notes embossing folder