Happy Birthday Dad

This is the card that I have made for my sixteen year old son to give his Dad, I had strict instructions - not fussy, not soppy and bright colours - lots of scope there then!

He is very into music at the moment, he has recently got his old record player out of the loft and bought new speakers and an amplifier for it.  He is currently working his way through all of his old vinyl albums - it must be something to do with his age - so I chose music as a theme.

The papers are some that I've had in my stash for ages called Rock Star, they have been so useful for boy's cards, I've almost used them all up and that doesn't happen very often.  I used my X-cut star die to cut the stars and layered them onto some hand cut card stock stars.  Full details of everything I have used are listed below.

I have kept the inside decoration quite simple using some of the same papers and a Pinking Circle die cut.

Card Recipe:

Papers:  Best Creations Inc - Rock Star

Card Stock:  Joanna Sheen - Onyx Stardream

Tools:  X-cut - Star die, Spellbinders - Pinking Circle, Standard Circle and
Ric Rac Border

Sentiment:  Peel Offs from stash

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cards for men Challenge 23 - Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge Week 179 - For Men Only
Here Come The Boys Challenge 39 - Die cuts/punches
Gingerloft Challenge 51 - No colouring allowed!!
Lexi's Creations Challenge 77 - Special Birthday
City Crafter Challenge Week 134 - Stars and Sparkles
LEJ Designs Challenge 28 - Use Die Cuts or Punches
One Stitch at a Time Challenge 138 - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting me today, please call back again soon.

Pauline
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Guitar Hero

This is a card that I have made for my eldest son to give a friend.  The friend is the lead guitar player in the band that my son sings and plays guitar in called 'Talking to Amy', so his card had to have a guitar on it.

I have made two cards to give Matt a choice, this one is quite simple, all I have used is one sheet of Best Creation Inc 'Rock Star' 6x6 glitter paper for the front and a co-ordinating sheet for the inside.  The base card is some onyx Stardream card from Joanna Sheen and I also die cut the star with my X-Cut die from the same card stock.

I stamped the numbers with my Penny Black number set 'who's counting' onto some co-ordinating paper and coloured them with Pro-Markers.  After cutting them out I glossed them with 3D Crystal Laquer.

The larger star on the inside of the card was also cut from the Stardream card stock with my X-Cut die, the smaller star was cut with a smaller die on some co-ordinating paper.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge 108 - Try Something New (I don't normally do simple cards)
Lollipop Crafts Challenge 68 - Anything Goes
Crafting When We Can Challenge 12 - Big Birthdays (I hope 16 qualifies)
Dream Valley Challenge 26 - Just for Men
Hotshot Craft Challenge 4 - One for the boys

Thank you for looking.

Pauline
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