Roar No More

 

I have wanted to make this card ever since I got my Two by Two and Dinoroar sets with the new catalogue last year.

I have been thinking about it again recently because both of these sets are on the retiring list :(  I have used them a lot but I still hadn’t attempted this card idea of mine.

The Paper Players have a clean and simple masculine challenge this week and when I saw the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches I thought it was the perfect time to give it a try.

 

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Dinoroar, Two by two, Distressed dots

Card : pool party, white, lucky limeade

Ink : memento black, white, pool party

Other : copics, big shot, chevron ef, mds (sentiment)

 

It is not my own original idea, but my “take” on a funny Hallmark card I had seen a long time ago. I wanted to see if I could take inspiration from it but create my own Stampin Up version.

The original -

Kathy

Prehistoric Sun

 

Sorry for the late posting of this but I have been on holidays.

Anyway the challenge at Just Add Ink this week is to make a kid’s card. 

 

My son is Stepdad to (almost) 5 yr old twin boys and this is for one of them.

I know from experience, that boys (and men) love cards that “do something” and so I decided to make a suspension card.  There is a great tutorial here on splitcoast if you’d like to give one a try.

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you might remember that I am on the Splitcoast Dirty Dozen Design Team?  Well the theme there this month is “Back to Primary” and I have made another suspension card (for the other twin) that can be seen there if you are a member.

 

I coloured the pteranodon with copics and cut him out and used shimmery white for the centre of the sun. I don’t have a sun die, but I used my scallop circle nesties which I think still worked okay.  Then I created the sun’s rays by simply moving a post-it note around the circle and sponging daffodil delight and a little pumpkin pie off the edge of it.  It’s the first time I’ve tried that and I like how it turned out.  There is a little fishing line to suspend the sun and on the back of it is a big red number 5.

 

Ingredients:

Stamps : Dinoroar, up up and away

Card : bashful blue, NQN, shimmery white, red, daffodil, white

Ink : daffodil, pumpkin, stazon

Other : nesties, big shot, fishing line, sponge, post its, simple numbers die

 

The rest of the design team have created some wonderful kid’s cards this week.  Please take a look and enter our challenge.

 

Kathy

Dinosaur boy

 

I needed to make a birthday card this week and thankfully they had another great sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches for inspiration.

I did follow the sketch although mine does look a bit different I know.  It’s as if a dinosaur put his foot down right on top of it and it got a little squished. :)

 

 

This is a giant dinosaur sized card for my boy.  No he’s not turning 3, but there were 3 panels and I wanted 3 dinosaurs on it.  He’s not a boy either!  He’s actually turning 26!  He was one of those boys who are absolutely obsessed with dinosaurs. Every book he read, story he wrote, picture he drew and game he played was about dinosaurs. So even though this is meant to be a kid’s set I just had to buy it and make a card for him to relive his childhood (plus he’s just a big kid anyway :)

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Dinoroar, French foliage

Card : black, white, sahara sand, x-press it

Ink : NQN, pumpkin, garden green, versamark, bashful blue, stazon

Other : copics, big shot, tasteful trim, mat pack, white pen

 

Kathy

Prehistoric

 

This week at Just Add Ink we have a sketch challenge.

At first I thought it was a bit of a tough one but then I got this idea to use my new Dinoroar set again and I ended up being very happy with it. 

It’s great when that happens isn’t it!

 

 

I flipped the sketch and I should also say that this is a big card (just as a dinosaur card should be!)

I just printed the sentiment from the computer and used 2 different fonts.

I tried ribbon, paper and lots of different things to get the line behind the rectangles (as in the sketch) but I wanted all the focus to be on the dinosaurs.  So I stamped the “splat” stamp from French Foliage (it is honestly worth buying that set just for this stamp) in a line behind them instead.  I liked this much better, it kept the card clean and simple.  I also used a very neglected colour, mustard, and I think it works great on this card.

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Dinoroar, French foliage

Card : mustard, black, white, x-press-it

Ink : memento black, mustard

Other : copics

 

My husband is turning 50 this year and this is going to be for him.  It’s actually not till October, but I just got this idea and instead of waiting till closer to the time (and quite possibly forgetting what I was going to make)  I decided to make it now.  So I’m all prepared!  Well the card is anyway.

Please take a look at what the rest of the design team have come up with and give this sketch a try.

 

Kathy

Four 4 You

 

 

This week at Just Add Ink we have a colour challenge for you.

 

I had a little boy’s birthday card to make, so I used our challenge colours to make it. Actually it’s twin boys who are having a birthday, I’m trying to decide whether to buy them a joint present and then I will just give them this card or whether to buy them a present each and then I will need to come up with another dinosaur card.  Still pondering that one, but anyway here it is ….

 

 

I have only just bought this set and I enjoyed playing around with these dinosaurs and seeing what I could create with them.  They’re cute!

The T.Rex has a letter balanced on his tail, the Diplodocus? (not quite sure what this one is meant to be?) has his head through the “O”, the Pterodactyl is flying off holding the “U” between his feet and the Triceratops is taking a bite out of the “R”.

The birthday boys love dinosaurs and I hope they love this card too!

 

Ingredients :

Stamps : Dinoroar, tiny tags

Card : espresso, island indigo, pool party, whisper white, x-press it card

Ink : memento black, pool party, espresso, island indigo markers

Other : copics, mat pack, piercer, tag punch, big shot, timeless type alpha, white pen, stripes ef, linen thread

 

Please take a look at the great cards the rest of the JAI team have come up with this week and play along with us using this fun colour combo.

 

Kathy