Cheers!

I've just acquired (from the retiring catalogue) Stampin' Up!'s Bubble Over stamps and Bottles and Bubbles framelits. I got them because I thought they'd be useful - I hadn't realised they'd be fun!
I've used them here in response Cas(e) this Sketch's challenge #323 and Sunday Stamper's SSC205: Masculine Musings. I think making a beer card is a pretty safe bet - there'll be a bloke who needs it, somewhere!

Ingredients:
Stampin' Up! card (Sahara Sand, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White), ink (Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Sahara Sand, and Memento Black), Bubble Over stamps and Bottles and Bubbles framelits, . Itty Bitty Birthdays stamps (sentiment)

Boy's birthday

I've been trying to discipline myself to make some cards for boys/men, which is difficult when all the lovely flowers and other girly things keep on calling to me. However, Freshly Made Sketches FMS384 made me turn immediately to Stampin' Up!'s 'Classic Garage' Suite. It invited me to play with the DSP, particularly, so that's what I did!

Ingredients:
Stampin' Up! card (Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White, Basic Gray), Geared up Garage stamps, Garage Gears thinlit dies, Classic Garage DSP, Real Red watercolour pencil.
Other products: Stazon black ink.

Birthday Boy

My son's birthday is coming up, and he's been overseas for some years now, so I wanted to make a card that evoked home. I used CAS Colours and Sketches Challenge #210 as a starter:

I've experimented with a couple of things on this card. First, I'm very tentatively trying Copic markers, so used these on the vertical panel. Second, I tried embossing over black stamped images - I didn't want a totally embossed image, but a kind of fill in look. I'm pleased with the results.

The images themselves are New Zealand flora: a ponga koru (the ponga fern is the source of our national symbol, the silver fern, and the koru, or spiral shape has many meanings, among them harmony and new life); the pohutukawa tree (about which I've previously posted) and a kowhai (pronounced caw-fie) blossom. The last will remind my son, I hope, of his sister - they both got a two-blossom kowhai tattoo to represent their relationship before he left.
Made using:
Paper: Stampin' Up's Whisper White, Pacific Point. Kraft paper also - can't remember whose.
Ink: Stampin' Up's Pacific Point, Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Basic Black, Real Red.
Embossing: Stampin' Up Gold and Real Red, American Crafts Green Glitter Finish.
Stamps: Stampin' Up Sassy Salutations and Crazy about You (both for sentiments) and craft creations Kiwiana Christmas stamps.
Other - Copic Markers: Robin's Egg Blue, Process Blue and Lapis Lazuli.; washi tape which may be Stampin' Up but I'm not sure.