Nacho says Happy 50th Birthday

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.

This is the card I made for my cousin's 50th birthday recently, using Nacho by Stamping Bella and several different patterned papers from a book I got at either The Range or The Works (my memory is starting to fail me in my advancing years, lol).

I used the Tim Holtz giftcard dies to make a holder for my 'gift voucher' which I put on the inside. Nacho is stamped with the aid of a reverse/mirror stamp to get him looking the other way.

Meanwhile, I am making progress with hubby's 50th birthday cake. I have the cake made and iced now, it's just waiting for decoration (that's my task for tomorrow).

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Stamping Sensations make it masculine
MFT The Birthday Project Card & gift in one
Creative Knockouts #363 finish the inside
Papercraft Challenges  #61 animals
The Male Room #141 birthday

Cupcake Inspirations #500 Birthday celebration


Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Say What?

Hi peeps, I've got a cheeky little card for you today :)

This little fella is Nacho, by Stamping Bella.

I have coloured him in with Graph'It markers

3245, 3250, 3270, 4150, 5135

9100, 9401, 9500, 9501

The fabulous dotty paper is from a Polkadoodles CD called Pretty Tuff.

I wanted to put the wording inside a speech bubble, you can get dies in this shape but I don't have one so I had to improvise. I have some nesting dies that are like ovals but with the pointy ends chopped off (I think they're Sizzix framelits but they've got separated from the packaging). A large oval die would work just as well.

I traced around the inside and outside of the die with a pencil and drew in the bottom of an apostrophe

I cut around the apostrophe with my craft knife (but not the top!) and slotted the die underneath it.

After passing it through my ebosser I now have a speech bubble

Mmm, time for a new blade in my craft knife I think, it's looking a bit raggedy. To disguise this I went around the edges a couple of times with a black fineliner pen.

I stamped my greeting in with Retro Alphabet stamps from My Sentiments Exactly.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
Creative Moments #84 Anything Goes
ABC Challenge - Z is for Zero (No embellishments allowed)
Stamping Sensations - Anything goes with a die/s
World of lacy Sunshine  Anything Goes
Artbymiran # 50 Anything Goes
Craft your passion - #295 Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - CREATE WITH CRITTERS
Addicted to Stamps #118 MASCULINE


Thanks for stopping by,
Katrina x