All about the Boy

Its Anything Goes at Everybody Art Challenge and I finally got round using this image and the brick wall that I had coloured for a boys card.

But Mr Mojo is away at the moment and couldn't work out how to make the card work.
Although it is growing on me and boys cards are not the easiest at the best of times.

The image is an old stamp, I think is a Boefje stamp,  the Brick Wall I think is a Penny Black Cling stamp.

The dotty papers are LOTV and the Happy Birthday is a new word die from Simon Says Stamp and I wanted something along the bottom so I used the MFT grass die. I couldn't use green simply because there wasn't any green in the image and now I noticed my grass goes behind the wall!

Do hope you can join us this week and check out the team for some fabulous insipration.

Card for a Child

Oh I do think this image is adorable is a Boefje stamp and we're show-casing them over on Simon Says Stamps Challenge. You can find them here at Simon Says Stamps shop.Last year on Simon Says Stamps Challenge we asked you to make a card for a child and send it to Post Pals and we would like you to do the same this year. I believe there's a US one called Make a child smile so that would count too.
I''ve used Basic Grey Kioshi paper again, I know but I love the colours and I've used EK success retro flowers with MS lattice punch.
Do check out the rest of DT fab creations and remember there's a prize of $25 to spend at Simon Says Stamps.

Yippee I'm back online

So yesterday morning my Internet was really slow and wasn't loading pages, so I reboot the modem thingy and lost it completely. Disconnect the wireless router and reboot again, nothing, change lead nothing. Did you know that Virgin Broadband help is open on Sunday so after 20 minutes hopefully on free number, I'm told its either the box or the main wire to the house and an appointment is made for late Wednesday. So I tidy up the computer area and turned it all off.
This morning I wanted some photos and the google gadget on my desktop which only works if I'm connected was there.
Yippee I got Internet but don't hold you breathe.
So back to the post from yesterday lucky for me I saved it.

Yes its those Pebbles papers again and I reckon I have enough for a couple of more cards but I do think its pefect for masculine cards. The sketch is Friday Sketchers and the Boefje Boy from Dies to Dies for, the wall is Magnolia. I so wanted to add more but knew it wouldn't work so I settled for a bit of faux stitching with brads and corners. The sentiment is Simon Says Stamps.

I had a smashing day at Ally Pally, I got everything off my list and apart from a slip up on The Hobby House, blame Bev for that I was well in budget. It was brilliant to meet some of my blog hero's Caz, Marlene and the wonderful Jacqui and just has I was leaving I met Chris, Kim, Kim and my fabulous teamie from Simon Says Challenge Jo.
Have drawn the winner of my Blogcandy scroll down to candy post.

Autumn Birthday Boy

Now I'm not sure if this will be accepted as a Fall card for the challenge on A Spoon Full of Sugar simply because I've used Autumn colours but this Boefje boy stamp ( brought from Dies to Die for) can be used all the year round. I'm still trying to make more masculine cards although this is a teen boy card rather than a man. I've used the sketch on Create4fun which works well with the Pebbles paper cos I only had strips left and the wall image is a Magnolia stamp which is looking very orange but isn't quite so bright in real life. The sentiment I found on a Francoise Read set of stamps.
Many thanks to Alison aka Messy Stamper for the 4 fabby awards do pop over and have a look at her blog there's a fab Tilda Garland on there yesterday.