One For The Boys!

C'est encroyable! Monday again. Who stole the bit in between? Or am I suffering from sunstroke??? In true Brit form I must say it is a trifle hot for me...but thankfully my huge pre-mummy DT marathon kept me hostage in the craft room and shade. Let's get straight to the crafty point as I have another six blog posts to reel off...

This week at Simon Says Stamp & Show it's all about man stuff! From little boys to your great Grandpa and all the other fellas, we want to see "One for the Boys". Seems I can't count because I made two!

June brings along Father's Day over here so I thought it was the perfect time to rustle up some male cards!

I also wanted to get kick start my Tim stamps into inky action. I decided on some good old one-layer stamping and masking...

I'm still loving the beauty of just ink and paper! These vintage sets are really great fun and produce a lovely stamped image - with lots of potential for different compositions and designs. This first set is called 'Road Trip".

To add a little extra twist in colour and design, before I started stamping I added a wild swoosh of watery Vintage Photo Distress Stain with Cut 'n Dry foam. I used Ranger Archival inks for a crisp image mixing up Sepia, Coffee, Russet and Jet Black tones.

l remembered to take a quick snap of how I work on the composition! The stamp sets have their design printed on the back which means I can plan the layout of my design just by laying the stamps as shown. Then you need to work out which masks you need and the correct order in which to stamp!

Here I'm working with the Artful Voyage stamps and the aeroplane from the Warehouse District set as they go together so well. I went really wild with a daring swoosh of Rusty Hinge Distress Stain! I also added a few splatters by flicking Distress stain from an old small paintbrush.

Again I mixed up the inks, sometimes adding two colours to a stamp to get variation in colour. The cards are A4 sheets folded in half - so quite large but perfect for playing around with these sets of stamps!

When I'd done all my stamping, I finished off with some distressing of the edges and a little inking.  Great vintage images and a wild swoosh of ink and I'm all done - ready to set sail!

I hope you like them. Do hop over to the Design Team blog to see more great blokey stuff from my teamies. I'm looking forward to seeing your creations - I think we all like seeing  new artful ideas for the Gents! Don't forget we personally choose our Top Three and there's the generous $50 shopping spree to be won! Yes please!

Thanks for taking a peek. Over out - and until the next time!
Sarah.