Monsters!

It has been a weekend of playing with monsters. Alex has really got into the Ben10 and Gormiti monsters recently so we spent most of the time playing with them, both on his island set

and with his castle,

and then pretending to play castles,

monsters and knights in a park near us..all great fun!

It has also been a weekend of crafting for me with two cards and a scrapbook layout completed.  This first card is a new one for me and is this week's challenge at Quirky Crafts.  The card is known as a sliding or pull up card...I had to follow instructions on You Tube to work out how to do it, but once I made one I realised that it is really relatively simple! We are sponsored this week by Stitchy Bear Digital stamps who kindly gave the design team some stamps to work with. I decided to go for an oldy worldy fantasy feel with this card so printed the stamps onto parchment paper, then used distress inks for the edge and coloured in pencils and gold pen for a faded vintage feel. I finished the edge off with gold embossed swirls.

Inside I used the same effect with a different oldy worldy stamp. I am also entering this card for Pixie Cottage's 'one for the boys', The Crazy challenge 'cards for men',  Stamp something 'digital' and Delicious Doodles 'Fantasy' challenges.

I couldn't complete a weekend of crafting without doing a Less is More challenge...however, White on White was a real challenge for me!  In the end I dusted off my cuttlebug dies and embossing folders to make this! The little butterflies were made using a punch I was given for Christmas and never used. Although the temptation was to try and add a lot of detail to this card I tried to stay with the Clean and simple style. I am also entering this for the Flutterby Wednesday open challenge this week.

Finally I made a double page scrapbook layout following Birthday sketch #7 from Nuts about Sketches. This also fits with the All sorts 'use at least 3 different stamps', SCSC 'dust off your stash' (I have had the papers used on this layout for at least 4 years!), and Speedy the cat's friends 'no embellishments' (I only used the papers, pens, stamps and photos). That is all from me for now. Have a great week everyone.
Love,
Caro
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