Happy Birthday Hubby

This is a few days late hitting the blog, but I wanted to show the card I made for my hubby's birthday back on May 26th. A cheeky one, as he's definitely not a 'leg man', LOL, good for me, is all I can say, hehe. I love this image, which comes from the talented pen of Sheryl Brown from Redonkulous Designs.

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Such a fun image to colour with some really cute details, like the pearls in her hair and the bows. I had fun making up this one for my hubby and with the hair almost a bit like Princess Leia (what little boy in the 80's didn't love her?!!) I think I had it nailed for my hubbies birthday card. He doesn't do 'frou frou', so I had to keep it really clean and simple, just the fun hugs and kisses sentiment to finish which I found in my stash and the star border which was cut using a Magnolia Doohickey die. I kept a couple of the stars which were cut from the die to add to the top left corner of the card to complete it. Clean, simple, quick and easy, just a bit of Desert Sand Memento ink to the edges and job done. Here's a closer look at the cheeky wee girlie, pearls, sparkles and all those curves, vavavoom! On closer inspection though, I really do have to work on my hair!!! I used a fine line promarker  for this and I think I needed to do it a bit more with some extra shades. Looks a bit twee. But hey, I'm learning.

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The Arty Shot (LOL)

The layout for my card is following a sketch from Jen Shultz, which I can't now for the life of me find the link for! But check her sketches out, they're great fun to work from and really helped inspire my choices for this card.

Here's a shot of the card on the dresser after giving it to my hubby for his birthday, the one beside it was made by my 8 year old daughter - Georgie, didn't she do well?!

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Here's the birthday boy opening his card during his pancake birthday brekkie. He's mid sentence here, nice!

Finally, a couple of pics, one listening to Zac singing happy birthday while Georgie is taking photos and the last one (sorry photo heavy!) is of the cake I made him to celebrate the day, yummy milk chocolate icing!

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Thanks for stopping in today. Love our lil' chats! Come back again soon xxx

Current Challenges:

Less is More Challenge ~ #122 Colour of your front door (For the past 8 years we've lived with a green front door, not our first choice, but kinda grew on us)
CAS-ual Friday ~ #104 Banners and Flags (I used a flag shape for my sentiment)
Simon Says Stamp ~ Masculine/Father's Day
CAS on Sunday ~ #9 Make It Masculine
Southern Girls Challenge ~ Tic Tac Toe = Stars-Stripes-Ink (I won this challenge with a prize from Saturated Canary - woohoo!)



Comments

Alex said…
Excellent card!
I love the colors and all the items!

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Crafty Hugs, Alex
Lin said…
I know EVERY man would love this card! Love all the details you added - thanks for sharing it with us this week at the Simon Says Stamp challenge!
Loopylou. said…
omg I LOVE it!!!! love the cake too and georgie's card is just awesome!
huge hugs Lou xx
Chrissie said…
Glad hubby loved his card!
Thanks so much
Chrissie
"Less is More"
Elaine said…
Happy belated birthday to your lovely hubby. It looks like he had a fabulous day.
Your card is perfect Wendy - I don't make male cards ever! A smashing image and a lovely clean layout, simply perfect for those tricky guys cards!

Big hugs
Elaine xx
Jen Nelson said…
I'm really sorry for my late visit.. just wanted to pop over and say Hi
Thanks for joining us this week
Jen
"Less Is More"
Stephanie Eaken said…
Very cute card! Cake looks yummy too!! Thanks for joining us at SGC!
Sylvia Blum said…
Happy Birthday to your hubby! LOVED seen the picture while he opened the card *lol*.... cuuuuuute!
Thanks for playing along with us in the CAS-ual Fridays challenge!
Sylvia xx
Jingle said…
Very fun card! I like the star border! Thanks so much for joining in the fun over at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog!
Kelly Griglione said…
So fun! Great card, and I love the 44 you made on his birthday cake ... what a great touch! Thanks so much for playing in the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge!

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