Male Room Challenge #71 - Guest Designer Spot

Hi friends, a little mid-week post for you today!

I'm delighted to be Guest Designer at The Male Room for this week's challenge where the theme is to use some metal. I scratched my head for quite some time on this one and tried various ideas but in the end it came down to this cute little anchor charm that I found in my stash, teamed with a selection of Uniko stamps.

Stamps used: Uniko - Background Blocks Horizontal Stripes and Scattered Polka Dots plus Nautical Treasures. I used the polka dot background as a fuzzy cut piece for the sails although it would definitely look out of place at sea I think! 

I'd like to thank the Male Room design team for inviting me to Guest Design and hope you feel inspired to play along with them in this challenge.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today and have a fun and crafty day!

CASology #131

Evening friends I've a little card to share with you today for the current challenge at CASology where the theme is 'Birthday' My confidence was boosted to the moon and back earlier when  I noticed I'd won last week's CASology challenge!  I think it's a first time for me so well impressed. On the back of this oozing confidence (snigger) and a mass of inspiration in blogland I've created this card ...

... and before I tell you what supplies I've used I need to acknowledge

my inspiration sources ... so first up I watched a fantastic video 

from the super talented Julia of Just One More Card here and I love

the layout she's used so I've 'cased' it and following my mini step into 

water-colouring here which was inspired by Kristina Werner I decided 

to give it another go to create my 'teddy' circle and I may as well 

sneak this card in as a second entry at Happy Little Stampers 

January CAS challenge - Water-colouring

   

A mini edit here thanks to Kimberley for suggesting I link up at 

The Male Room Challenge #02/15 - Shades of Blue

Card Recipe:

Uniko Studio: Sweet Baby

Clearly Besotted: Happy Birthday sentiments

Mama Elephant: Index Card Dies

Hero Arts: white embossing powder

Distress inks: Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans

Papermania: Textured cardstock

Doodlebug: sprinkles

Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back soon with another card