Is this manly enough? (And a freebie)

It's been an odd day, threatening to rain a bit, then sunny, then overcast.  I spent a bit of time planting some veggies out (sweetcorn and mange tout in the raised beds, and some tomato seedlings out in the greenhouse. And then gave them all a good drenching. The soil in my greenhouse was sooooo dry. I drenched it for ages, like 20 mins at least, and then found it was still powder dry less than a centimetre deep.  I'll have to give it another drenching tonight I think.  Paul wants to go to see some Jubilee fireworks on the seafront later tonight, so despite the fact that I'd like my veggies to be watered in, I hope the rain still holds off for the fireworks.  A nice downpour while I'm tucked up in bed later on would be just fine.

Once I'd worn myself out in the garden, I came in to rest at my craft desk.  I wanted to enter a challenge which required some text on the papers, and couldn't find the papers that I wanted, (I've had a tidy up and now can't find them even though I can picture them in my head exactly!).

Anyway, I decided to make a male themed card (not my favourite theme, since I'm worse than hopeless at male cards), but dusted off a Penny Black image that seemed to fit the bill.  Penny Black is what got me interested in stamping all those years ago, and this little hedgy really does bring back some memories.   I went to town with the colouring, using 4 different colouring mediums; Twinkling H2O Watercolours, Copics, Shimmer chalks and Sakura stardust gel pens.

The multitude of colouring tools made up for not having any flowers, glitter, or ribbon.  Ok, I did sneak a couple of bows in there on the twine, but that is still masculine, right?

The sentiment is a new one, and is a freebie available below if you'd like to nab it.

See my cards available to buy on my eBay listings



Card Recipe:

• Image - Hedge Delivery by Penny Black
• Sentiment - One of my own Freebies (see below)
• Papers - Summertime Designs
• Nesties - Lacey Circles
• Colouring - Twinkling H2O watercolours, Copics, Sakura Stardust Gel pens, Dovecraft Shimmer chalks
• From my stash -  Buttons, Twine

Freebie:
As promised above, here is my Sentiment freebie that I've used above.  You're free to download it if you like it; click on the image for a larger version, then right click and 'save picture as' to save to your own computer. 

My conditions are as follows:

1. Please become a follower, then you will see more freebies as they are posted,
2. Please leave a comment on this post to let me know you've downloaded it, and
3. Please don't share my freebies directly with other people, but please send them over to collect it themselves by giving credit where you use it.

I also adore seeing your creations using my digi sentiments, so I'd really love you to send me an email with links to your creations so I can pop over for a peek!

I've been inspired by:

• CRAFT - Background Text
• Penny Black - Favourite Things (colouring with different mediums, creating and giving away freebies)
• Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Happy crafting.