Soccer Pride Birthday

My youngest plays for the school's soccer team so I thought this would be an appropriate card for him.

I stamped the hoodie, bag and soccer balls separately on Neenah Classic Crest.  The balls were stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with metallic purple embossing powder.  I probably should have done some shading on the balls.  The hoodie and bag were stamped with memento ink and colored with copics.  I then hand cut them out and set them aside whilst I stamped the background of lockers.  I didn't worry whether they were all perfectly lined up because I don't know about you but the last time I was in a school the lockers looked like the students were using them and not that worried whether they were lined up. Now don't get me wrong they were bolted down and were lined up but I felt the lack of perfection in lining them up added to the ambience of the background.  Well, that is my story and I am sticking to it! ;)  I colored them in copics, keeping them neutral and colored the wall and floor in school colors.  TBH if I think about it I have probably reversed the actual colors; oh well. 

 

Then I used a Stampendous sentiment stamp and curved it on my acrylic block to make it look like the bunting you buy and hang up.  I stamped that with the Versamark and heat embossed.
When I went to assemble the card the hoodie looked random in the setting so I thought the best way to deal with it was to make a hanger as if it hanging off the lockers.  I got out some wire from my stash and made a couple of holes for the hanger to go through to help it look more realistic. 
Ingredients

Card Size - 8.5 x 5.5 inches

Card stock - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White

Stamps - GinaK Designs: Just So Sporty, Sporty Accessories, and School, Sports, Spirit; Stampendous

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Color - Copics

Accessories - Zing! Metallic Purple embossing powder, wire.

 

 

University Love

Another challenge card for the GinaK Designs challenges.  I think it was to make a background from a foreground stamp, its been a while and I'm not going to search it out.  It was still a great challenge. 

Lots of dimension with the card.  Love the stick for the pennant (a copic colored toothpick).

Ingredients
Card Size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Smooth
Stamps - Gina K Designs
Ink - Memento, Versamark
Color - Copics
Accessories - White embossing powder, Dimensional adhesive, Tooth pick.

Patriotic U Rock

 

Guess you can tell by now I am trying to get my blog back up to date again! LOL! This was another GinaKDesigns Challenge card.  I believe the challenge was patriotic - red, white & blue.  I wanted to do something that was clean and simple and dimensional.  I love the lines of this card and who doesn't enjoy being told they rock!

I took the second picture to show the dimension on this card.  Sometimes I love really complicated cards and other times I like understated.  I like how simple this looks but it takes all the individual components such as layering the star and giving dimension to the hood and pocket of the hoodie that just give it that extra bit of specialness.

Ingredients
Card Size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Smooth, Archiver's open stock
Stamps - GinaK Designs
Ink - Memento, Versamark
Accessories - Spellbinders star dies, White embossing powder


ROY G Have a Nice Day!

 

Another card for another GinaK Designs challenge.  Such a great site and great challenges.  Yeah, the challenge is a couple of months old and we needed to use Red, Orange, Yellow and Green for the challenge.  This just screamed bright and cheerful to me.

 

Just going through my cards, I was thinking, oh I can send that to my son and then I looked at it again and it is quite feminine.  Hopefully I will find a use for it!

 

Ingredients

Card Size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in

Cardstock - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White Smooth, The Paper Studio

Stamps - GinaK Designs

Ink - Memento

Color - Copics

Accessories - ribbon from stock, Spellbinders circle dies, Polka Dot embossign folder



Tiger Thanks

So it was that time of year where I had to make some very special thank you notes. These were for teachers that really went out of their way for my eldest student and helped him get into a top University.  The first one just happened to go to a teacher who was his soccer coach too.  I couldn't resist revisiting the spinner card with the soccer ball.

The second card I did with a background stamp I just bought because I liked it - I don't normally make those sort of purchases but at 50% off it just had to be done! LOL and the same tiger.  Lots of versamark and metallic purple embossing powder!

Ingredients
Card Size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in
Card Stock - Neenah Classic Crest
Stamps - High High Stamps (tiger), Stampendous (tiger stripe), GinaK (soccerball), Thank You background stamp (Inkadinkado), Thank you phrase 1st card only (Stampendous)
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark
Color - Copics
Miscellaneous - Zing! Metallic Embossing Powder Purple