Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man

Almost the last of the cards from last year, this time using the CC designs Spider-Man and a digi background from a now closed store. I made the webs on my cricut and cut them in the frame, I do like using my cricut for stuff like this, I’ve made so many stencils and card bits with it, I would be lost without it now.

 

Flash

As soon as I saw this image I knew I needed it. I also had an inspired idea for the background. Part of me wishes I hadn’t stencilled it red and yellow but at least it’s bright lol. I had to search for a background city image and found this one from Kenny K, miss his unique designs so much. I might have also made a few more cards and bought all the superhero sets lol.

Remote Splat

Yet another of the splat stencil cards, I was certainly heavily in the splat zone when I made this one. 2020 did see me take a style and just run with it and I definitely made more cards than any other year and it helped me to have something to keep my mind occupied.

I am sure others felt the same way too and having a hobby that keeps your mind active whilst being able to send the finished project to someone to make them smile is what kept me going through some pretty awful unprecedented days.

This image was coloured too many years ago to even remember, I did buy him in the Kenny K closing down sale and its another company that I miss, his style was so different and geared towards those guy cards everyone loves to make.

Ingredients

Image: Kenny K (no longer trading)

Sentiment: boys toys from Your Next Stamp

Dies: blueprints 31 from MFT

Stencil: splat from clearly besotted with candied apple distress ink

Exploding Box

Warning very picture heavy post.....

Ok so every year I have to top the card I made the year before but this year I was totally stumped, how do you top a twisted easel, well with an exploding box of course lol.

I followed a tutorial from Sazzle her directions and pictures helped make this a fairly easy if time consuming make.

I knew I wanted a super hero/marvel comic style but how to translate that was the question. I found a fantastic digi kit that provided all the elements, papers, city scape and words all in one place the Masked Marvels kit by Julie Billingsley at Sweet Shoppe. Next I needed a focal image for the middle layer and I remembered the retro digi stamps from Kenny k, I framed these with the frame in the digi kit.

I have taken lots of pictures but wish I had photographed the outer layer before attaching the middle one as you can't really see it in the pictures. I did however take the middle layer pictures before attaching the last layer.

You can't see easily that the cityscape matches the on both sides of the acetate or that I added the firework paper to the back of the middle layer to give a background to the buildings.

I had so much fun with this but can't see me making another one for quite some time lol.

Outside of the box

Middle layer

Inner layer with bouncy number

Ingredients:
Cardstock: Black (from Jane), Acetate (from Tracy)
Red: "Real red" Stampin up, Blue: "Pacific Blue" stampin up, Yellow: "Harvest Gold" Papertrey Ink - all from the snippet folders
Papers and embellishments: "Masked marvels" Julie Billingsley at Sweet Shoppe Designs
Images: "Smart Alec" and "Big Surprise" Kenny K
Numbers: Billionaire cartridge on cricut

Chalenges: Snippet Playground

Thanks for looking and any comments you may leave

Another Christmas Birthday

The last of the pre-christmas birthday cards and probably my favourite. I think I have mentioned my mammoth cricut cart haul recently and this mat was cut using one of them. It was so simple to do and turned out s effective. Expect to see loads more of these.

Ingredients

Image: Kenny K

Papers: NitWit

Cardstcok: Stampin up

December Birthdays - lots of them

I seem to have loads of birthdays in December and every year I start them months before and then can't find them nearer the date. This weekend alone I had to make five plus christmas cards and it felt like work lol. I did like the finished articles though.

Ingredients

Image: Kenny K

Papers: "Grin and Bear it" Nit Wit

Cardstock: "Crumb Cake" Stampin up

Here he comes to save the day

Well another weekend over and back to work, especially not looking forward to this week as was supposed to be on holiday...boohoo, but as the flights are soooo expensive I will be saving my precious days for another time.

Anyway enough waffle - back to the card Amanda, been playing with kenny k's again, I know, I know when I get some new stamps that is all you ever see lol. This one was so much fun to colour and I made it for hubbies birthday in September, how organised am I. Don't worry he doesn't read my blog so will never see it until the day, but just in case I left off the sentiment that would give the game away. In the last nitwits sale I bought the Super Stuey kit and wondered when I would use it but as soon as I saw this image I knew, sometimes things are just meant to go together.

I bought some stampin up real red for my christmas cards as I like the idea of being able to keep getting the same true colour match and I must say I am impressed, it cut like a dream and the colour is real bright red, just perfect for all the male cards I make, will be buying more and have a plan to get all the colours lol. I never seem to be able to get just one or even the ones I think I will like I seem to need/want them all.

Ingredients

Image: Kenny K

Papers: Nitwits

Cardstock: "Real Red" Stampin Up

Brads: Bargain in Hobbycraft but can't remember the name

Woman of your Dreams?

I had the idea for this card a while ago and only just got round to making it. I love the three sided cards I have seen at Jules and Kerry's blogs and thought it would make an excellent idea for my BIL birthday. I used 2 6x6 card blanks and stuck them together to form a three sided card. I have folded it differently as I wanted the inner image to be hidden. I used images from Kenny K and Bugaboo and the sentiments are computer generated using Bookworm font. My BIL's favourite colour is yellow so had to use that on the card, summer driggs to the rescue as all the yellow's I thought of were to babyish for a 28 year old.

The finished card with all three sides showing. The other side is a collage of the ticket we bought him for his present, thank goodness for tickets via email you can print multiple times.

The woman of his dreams complete with yellow bikini and glossy accented sunglasses. Decided on red hair as it seemed to go best with the yellow.

And finally the joke bit...lol... I just hope he likes it too.

Ingredients

Images: Kenny K and Bugaboo

Papers: Summer Driggs

Card: Craft Work grey paper pad - love this pad and wish I had bought more now.

Another Kenny K

I feel as though I have an addiction, My name is Amanda and I have bought seven, yes seven Kenny K's this month. It all started with my bil birthday card and wanting a racy image and the rest they say is history.

I used the out of the box technique on this one and must say I think she works really well like this. Coloured with my trusty copics and a bit of spica on her eyelids. Used the snippets from a snippet card last week, feels strange to be using snippets from snippets lol. The paper was in my snippet draw but hasn't been previously used, is anyone else guilty of this....when I get a new digi paper kit I print all my favourites just to see the colours properly make a card with the one that I like the most and shove the rest in my snippet draw. So technically this is a proper snippet make lol.

Please excuse the fuzzy picture, I took a quick picture before I sent the card and unfortunately its not a good one.

Ingredients:

Paper: Echo Park Digi

Image: "Queens Cutie" Kenny K

Mind that Wall

Morning All

I seem to be making cards earlier and earlier so can't show them on here until after there birthdays so today I decided to make a card just for fun. I have recently bought a few kenny k images so decided to use one for this card.

Coloured with my trusty copics and using paper from a previous card and cardstock from my snippet draw I came up with this simple card.

I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder for the wall but it looked too plain so decided to use my distress inks to grunge it up a bit. I am always a bit anxious when I start with the inks as I haven't mastered the art of inking yet, I tried the applicator and it went ok but then I tried a plain old shaving brush and hey presto better coverage and control for me and I now want to ink everything in sight lol.

Ingredients

Image: Kenny K Downloads "Club Kid"

Papers: Echo Park Springtime Digi PaperJessica Sprague

Cardstock: Snippet draw

Sentiment: Pollycraft Freebie (love these)

Challenges: Kenny K - metal

16 - Wow they grow so fast

I can't believe that my cousin is 16, it seemed like only yesterday I bought him his first cuddly toy a frog that he used to carry everywhere. He is now a tall intelligent hockey playing guy, but is still the sweet little boy at heart.

He plays ice hockey for a team and as soon as I saw this image I knew it would be perfect, his uniform is black and white but the adult team is red, white and black so in honour of him being 16 I thought I would use red as well. This image was a joy to colour and is my first Kenny K but will definitely not be my last.

I used the 300dpi papers that I bought for my hubbies card, these are the digital versions of DCWV and I can see quite a few joining my collection. I love being able to size and print whenever I want so easy but it doesn't help to reduce the paper mountain in my craftroom lol. The pollycraft sentiment has been used again, these are fab as they can be coloured to match the image and there were four different ones offered as a freebie ages ago.

Ingredients

Image: Kenny K

Papers: 300dpi

Sentiment: Pollycraft