All about the Guys Blog Hop!

All about the Guys Blog Hop!

Thanks you for stopping in and taking part in the All About the Guys Blog Hop.  You should have reached my page from Laurie’s page, if you did not, please go back to Erica’s page here, http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com so you can start at the beginning.

For my “All about the Guys” Blog Hop I have created a card. Many of my designs are pretty simplistic but eye catching.  This card is no different, as you would see by the majority of my blog activity I spend most of my time making cards.  So when I thought about what to do with my posting for this blog, I chose a card that would be suited to give to any man for any occasion.  The thought is a card that is good for a child to give his/her daddy. The inside of the card is blank so you can add your own message.

I wanted to try something different.  I generally do square or rectangular shaped cards.  You can see the card is square, but with the offsetting square, it gives it a different shaped design.

I used paper for this card from The Guy Stack from DCVW.  For the bottom layer I used a graph paper with blue lines.  The top layer is shiny embossed paper showing all the tools that men use to do their jobs around the house or at work. 

I used the Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge to create the man for this card. I used the Construction Paper Doll to create the paper doll and the three tools that are used by men/daddies.

I used a matching blue textured card stock to create my 1.5” letters of Mr. Fix It.  I inked the edges to create the look of dirty hands handling the letters at one point (some of them were harder to ink than others).

To complete the card, I cut the tools off the Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge and used pop-dots to add them to the construction workers hand and by the letters.  I then secured the two 6" squares to a 6" blue card the same color as the letters.  The card opens from the bottom.

As you can see from the above photo, most of the pieces of this card are secured by using foam pop-dots to pop them up off the page.

Thank you for stopping by!  Next you will go to  

Tammy Smith  http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com 

 

Erica http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com

Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/

Samantha http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/

Laurie http://www.lauriecandoit.blogspot.com/

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     Kimberly http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/

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     Tammy Smith  http://cuttinandstampin.blogspot.com 

Lori www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com

Maria http://scrapfornat.blogspot.com/

Melissa http://pinkpolkadotscrappingblogspot.com

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Witch and Raven Halloween Card

This card is much like the Creepy Lane Card I posted a few days ago.  Iused the same basic pattern, however, this time I did not use the heat embossing (because of the shine) for the wrought iron.   I wanted something creepy looking, and I think the weather vane and the lamp posts add that look.  I have added some close up views of the card below.  I am getting better with my inking on the edges of my cards.  I was going for the glowing windy look on the gate and weather vane.  I think Igot one, but not the other.

Spooky Tree

This was a fast and easy Halloween Card.  I used the Celebrate With Flourish Cricut Cartridge to make the layered tree.  I think the added layers make the tree more creepy.   I kept thinking of the Wizard of Oz while I was making the tree (the scene where the trees come to life and scare Dorothy).

The sparkle paper was a sheet out of the Cloud 9 Design Specialty paper.

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Creepy Lane

Creepy Lane was a fun card to make.  This whole card just screams creepy and scary.  I love the wrought iron window with the black cat, pumpkin and quarter moon.  To give this a more realistic look I heat embossed the iron with black embossing powder. I colored the scence using my Prisma Watercolor Pencils then blended with my Stampin' Up Blending Pen.  I also did the sentiment of Creepy lane with black embossing powder. 

I would like to have a mat finished black embossing powder.  I think this would have an even more realistic wrought iron look to it.  While I like the shiny, I think it would look better if it were flat and not shiny.

I added the creepy looking eyes because every scary scene in a movie always has the feeling of hidden eyes watching over things.

I completed the inside of the card by adding a white insert with the same border as the front of the card.

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I have been working on getting some cards set up for halloween.  this one I tried something different by adding four colors of designer paper in the four corners.  I decided that four colors was a little to much so I used the orange glitter paper in two corners.  I off set them then added the square boo in the center.

 On the center ghost, I thought it would be cool to make him appear as if he were transparent or moving so I sprited the stamp bottom before I stamped it on the white card stock.  I did not get the desired effect I was hopping for, but I was afraid to add to much water for fear I would cause a wet mess.  I added the gems in the corners simply because I thought the card looked unfinished without them. 

I completed the indise of the card by simply adding some white card stock with Happy Halloween stamped at the top.

Anytime I have a dark card, I always add a lighter insert to make it easier for the person to write a message in the card.

Thanks for looking today, I will have another halloween card tomorrow.

Kimberly