Birthdays Are Good For You

I've used this sketch at Seize The Birthday for my card

I love this stamp by Inkadinkado. It's from a set called Humorous Birthday and they are great for quick cards and I also thought it would also fit right in with the challenge at Cards For Men this fortnight where they want you to make a funny card and the Crafty Cardmakers who's challenge is Humour. I've coloured him with Promarkers and made a faux layer by just adding small strips of backing card. The backing paper is from a pad called Travel Light by WRMK which was free with a magazine. A very simple card but one I can make lots of for the charity box.

Angel & Crown

This is the current sketch at Seize The Birthday

I've flipped the sketch for my card and I've used a Darkroom Door photostamp called English Pub. I think Darkroom Door is probably my favourite stamp range although I don't use them nearly enough. I've stamped it with Pacific Point ink and layered it. The greeting is a die by Britannia. I've added some twine and a button to finish

Sense Of Time

This is another card using an idea from Julia Dunnit's Grunge workshop at Kraft Crazy and I've followed the sketch at Seize The Birthday

 I've used a page from an old book and put it through the Bug with a cogs embossing folder. I've then highlighted the embossing with Tumbled Glass distress ink and the edges of the page with Broken China. I've then gone over the edges with some turquoise Perfect Perarls. A final touch is a spray and flick with some Rich Gold Cosmic Shimmer Mist. The clock is from a set by Stampin Up called A Sense Of Time and I've stamped it with Broken China. I've then used a cracked glass mask over it with versamark and used some pearl Perfect Pearls although it doesn't show up in the picture. I've cut it out with the large Spellbinders Cogs die and added some gold foil touches. The sentiment is from the same stamp set again stamped in Broken China. I've used the smaller cog dies on scraps of various gold mirror card then sanded them to take off the brightness. These have been placed across the card and the centres of one of the smallest cogs have been placed in the four corners

I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Seize The Birthday - Sketch & Masculine
Anything Goes - Make It Manly
CRAFT - Use Embossing
Quirky Crafts - Make It Messy

You can just see the pearl through the cracked glass mask on this close up