Some Masculine Birthday Cards

My nephew turned 17 last week, I can't believe my sister's youngest is 17 already! So I had to get a card made for me to give him and for my mom to give him. Teen boy cards are so hard to make but I think I pulled it off and word from my sis he was impressed :) Here's the one my mom gave him.

And this is the one I gave him using my new embossing folder. I saw the Tim Holtz set with the wood grain and just had to have it & wanted to try it out right away so this is what I came up with.

I'll be back late tomorrow night with my layout for Ella's Pink Scrapbook challenge.

TPE Challenge #63

This week's challenge is a sketch challenge, I love sketch challenges :) I had to get a card made for my mom to give to my nephew for his bday (I still need to make the one I'm giving him) so I thought I'd use the sketch for my card. This was a super easy, somewhat quick card. I used my cricut again to make this one, have I mentioned I love my new toy :)

Here's my card

And here's the sketch we used.

Be sure to head on over to TPE to see what the rest of the team came up with.

Check back later this week, I hope to have some more cards posted, I've got lots of birthdays coming up

TPE Challenge #56

This week's challenge is to add green to your color combo

This week the design team was offered one of the new Puddle Jumpers stamps from Claudia and Company at Die Cuts R Us. These cute Puddle Jumpers were designed by our very own, talented Lori Boyd! There is 3 stamps in all. These images are so adorable and fun to work with.

I got to play with the Daisy stamp which comes with her own little kitten. This week I tried paper piecing my image rather than coloring it. Tina, one of the gals on the team, does this often and I love the look so I wanted to try it out. This card will be going to my niece for her 17th birthday.

You're going to want to be sure to head on over to TPE to see all the wonderful creations by the rest of the design team.

Some Masculine Birthday Cards

These are my cards that I've made for all my the February birthdays. Feb. & Mar. are filled with boy/man birthdays for me. Masculine cards are always a bit of a challenge for me since I love doing the pinks and bling and everything girlie. Most of the men in my life aren't big into hunting/fishing or golfing, so that makes it even a bit more challenging. If I see anything car related though I usually snatch it up. I have also doubled my monthly birthday cards because I gave my mom "a year of cards" for her birthday, so Im hoping I'll have more to share with you on my blog each week.

Ok, onto the cards. This month I have my great nephew's birthday, you so his Thomas card in a previous post. This is the card I gave my mom to give him (sorry the pic is a little dark)


Then I have a nephew's birthday, he's preteen. This is the card I made for him.


Here is the one I gave to my mom to send out.


And lastly I have a brother-in-law's birthday


And here's two other masculine cards I made.


Now I have to get busy with March because I have two more male bdays the first week and then finally I will get to make a girlie bday card!

First Card For My Birthday Card Challenge

I mentioned that I wanted to start a Birthday Card Challenge this year. I fail badly at getting Birthday cards made and sent out to family members and friends. I always have these great intentions but I just don't follow through. So this year one of my resolutions was to get my birthday card list ready the first of the month and get them made so they are ready to send out. Actually Im going to work a month ahead so this month I'll make January & February's cards then in February I'll do March's etc. so if I do slack a little it won't be too bad to catch up.

It's a pretty basic challenge just figure out what cards you need to do for the month and get them made AND sent out. I have challenged the gals over at Wisconsin Scrappers to join me, if you would like to join along feel free to share your cards with me by just leaving a comment with a link to your blog. Maybe once things get going I'll over some goodies :)

So for my first card I used a sketch I found online. I love working with sketches, they inspire me. So here's the sketch I used (and I can't remember where I got it from).


And here is the card I have made for my nephew who is turning 19 or is he turning 20? I don't remember lol. His birthday is tomorrow so he'll be getting it late but I will get it out (that's the 2nd part of my challenge, actually mailing it)

Recipe
Stamp: Northwoods
Embossing: Cuttlebug on Coredinations cardstock
Diecutting: Spellbinders (oval and tree)

I just have one more birthday for January, my mother's is the 31st. I'll be posting hers late though because she reads my blog, "hi mom over in warm Phoenix!" :) They're lucky to not have to be in this cold weather in the winter. I'll be working on my Feb. ones too, there's 3 total and they're all male cards.