Flippin men!

Just a quick card today made for someone who has a rugby loving grandson in law!

I have had these sheets since they came out and keep forgetting I have them. I bought loads of them and still have quite a few left. I must find the Flippin Women sheets out too and get them made up otherwise they will sit in the drawer forever.


Materials used are
Flippin Men sheet by Jak Heath (I don't know where sells them any more as I got mine from a craft show)
off cuts of paper are by DCWV and ribbon and charms from my stock.


Another one for the Snippet challenge


Tfl xx

Flippin' men!

Although I have quite a few of these sheets left I tend to forget I have them and don't use them very often. My friend mentioned the other day that it was the 60th birthday this week of the caretaker down at the school I used to work at. I don't usually send him a birthday card but I thought of this image as soon as she mentioned it :)

The image is from the Flipping Men series by Jak Heath and I added a screwdriver and hammer charm because he is into diy in a big way. As soon as anyone mentioned at school that they needed shelves up or whatever he had started the job before they had finished speaking lol

I'm entering this card into the Papertake Weekly challenge as their remit is

So onto this week and as it’s the first one of the month  we have our usual

Anything Goes theme

with the option of adding something dangly  ……

. but remember this is only an option and if you don’t want to dangle then you don’t have to dangle :)

Right, I'm off to do some colouring for a while then I really must do something else in my tip of a work room/studio.

Thanks for looking

La Pashe

I'm not really into decoupage but I do like the sheets by Jak Heath. DH's uncle was 80 last weekend and I wanted to make him a card which was a bit special. He loves his garden but I've used everything else I have to do with gardening on previous cards, then I remembered I had these sheets. Once I had it cut out and made up I started my seach for a wood grained paper which I eventually found (but can't remember where from. Any how, DH rang him last Saturday and all he kept saying was that I was really clever, he had never seen a card like it before and was so chuffed with it he had shown it to everyone who had been round :)
I can't and won't take the full credit for the card as, if it wasn't for this very talented lady, Jak Heath, it would never have materialised......thanks Jak!

The bits and pieces hanging on the front of the shed are stamped images from a set I won a few years ago, I think they are by One Four Zero. The seed packet is a button and the brads are from my stash.

Can you tell I'm avoiding work? LOL I must get my bits finished though as I have another job to do this week that I'm really looking forward to :)

Take care, bfn

Chocolate, coffee and cream

(Yum) is the challenge for this week on Colour Create and the optional extra is distressing. I'm not very brave when it comes to distressing but I did manage to take an emery board to the edges of my image :)

My card is 8" x 8" and the image is by Jak Heath for La Pashe. I love the sepia images and this one leant itself perfectly to the challenge if you take sepia to mean coffee :) The cream border was cut with one of my MS punches, the card candy is from Craftwork Cards and it was mounted onto dark brown card.

A little bit more of what I've done so far this week apart from wedding stationery (I'm back to the silly o'clock bed times :))

I've used a variety of chipboard letters from Papermania and Doodlebug, more card candy from CC, ribbons from Ribbon Oasis and bits and bobs from my stash as well as another Remember When.. image and one of the Flippin Men sheets. I needed some male birthday cards in a hurry and the letters were on the vast mound which used to be a desk! I'm not very happy with them though! I need to try to squeeze in time to make some more cards in between stationery this weekend as my boxes are now looking a bit desperate.

Back soon, tfl