Friday 11 April 2008

Happy 88th Birthday Dad

I find it so difficult to make cards for men & rely on the colour & PP paper to look ‘masculine’.
I made this card for my Dads’ 88th birthday next month & as an entry to the challenge over at BCR8IV blog (check out Michelles’ terrific site - link on the left)


Patterned paper: Basicgrey ‘Skate Shoppe’ & Dasher collections.
Faux Chipboard ‘DAD’ cut from cereal box using ‘George’ Cricut cartridge & covered with my own computer designed spotted paper & inked edges.
Canvas tag: This was from a new pair of jeans my husband bought. I just printed happy birthday onto PP & sewed it onto the canvas.
Other: Ribbon brad, Polka grosgrain, ink & SEWING. TFL.




15 comments:

michelle said...

OOh i love this !! great card ! thanks for playing along and good luck !!

A Year Of Quotes said...

Awesome design! Love the pretty little details. Happy weekend, JC! And thanks for visiting my blog.

Enfys said...

Oh BOY! This is awesome, I love it JC. I have tagged you, details on my blog x

Jeni Glee said...

Oh my goodness, this card is amazing! I love it!

Sharon Caudle said...

Awesome "guy" card!!! Great details! I have such a hard time with guy cards too! Good luck in Michelle's challenge!! :) Please stop by my blog, there's an award waiting for you. xx

Bella and Aidees Mom said...

Your card is fab..TFS

Enfys said...

Hi JC, you asked about linking blogs - create a new post. Type in your text. Highlight the name of the person who's blog you want to link to, then click on 'link', it's about 5 icons along on the toolbar immediately above your text.(hover until you find the right one) A little box will pop up with http:// in it, complete the address, click ok. You can do this for all the people you want to link to. Don't worry, I only recently learned how to do this myself, you are not alone x

Sharon Caudle said...

Hi!! I was going to email you, but didn't see a link. Click on my name and email me and I'll help you with the links if you would like! :)

CraftyC said...

A great card!
Clairexx

*Beatriz Jennings* said...

this is beautiful! ;)

Gwen said...

wow! so incredibly creative!

Em said...

This is totally gorgeous!!

What a fab idea, I'm sure your dad will love it.

Good luck with the comp!

Classroomfree said...

Great card!

Unknown said...

You did a fab job on this "boy" card - love how things go off the edges :)

Nikki said...

Perfect for a guy! Great job!