Card for a birthday boy

My favorite cards to make are the ones for the boys and men of any age. So this weekend I sat down and created this card, using an old cut out image from Maja Design. I chose to keep with blue, white and silver colors, as well as a jeans and star theme. I find stars always work as an embellishment for the masculine designs.

I used several dies: star and sentiment tags from Gummiapan, small stars and photo frame from Lawn Fawn, a star frame from Dixi Craft and stitched star dies from Craft&You.

This card is for:
AAA Birthday Challenge - #86 For Boys
The Paper Players - #789 Masculine

 

INK #369 - Visual Prompt: Gnome

At Inkspirational the new challenge is a visual prompt and we want to see you take inspiration from the photo below.

I was inspired by the gnome. My gnome has a honeycomb pattern on his hat and has daisies in his hands. To that's what inspired my colors and choice of embellishments, using dies from Little Birdie and Gummiapan and a sentiment stamp from Aall&Create.
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This card is also for:

Ellibelle's Garden Party - #15 Anything in (or from) a Garden
Sparkles Forum Challenges - #200 Trios (3 of Anything)

Ink #366 RAIN - #367 Floral Palette - #368 For the Guys

At Inkspirational our current challenge is "For the Guys" and I chose a dog as my centre piece along with a star frame and additional stars and some bling.

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 Life has been busy and so I haven't been able to share my cards for the 2 previous challenges yet - this was for the Floral Palette - being inspired by the paint palette and brush

 

 

The third card was for the theme of rain, and I was thinking about also how showers bring flowers, so I added lots of flowers too. I love the colors on this card and how I arranged the flowers, which I in general struggle with.

  

INK #365 - Visual Prompt - Sketch

At Inkspirational the new challenge is a visual prompt and we want to see you use our sketch.

I love playing with sketches, but it's been awhile. I love cutting and Craft o'Clock has many series to choose from. Here I used 4 frames and for  butterblies and a designer paper. A greeting in Norwegian and 3 enamel dots were the only embellihsments,

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This card is also for:

Let's Craft & Create Challenge - #230 Anything Goes + Beautiful Butterflies
Ellibelle's Garden Party - #14 Anything in (or from) a Garden

INK #364 - Word promtp - CAS - Optional Twist - "E is for..."

  

At Inkspirational the next 2 weeks we invite you to play along with our CLEAN & SIMPLE (CAS) challenge, featuring the optional twist: E is for… If you’re playing along with the optional theme here, consider also linking your card at the AAA Card Challenge. Beginning Sunday, their theme is E is for... A reminder: theirs is a must, ours is optional
I went with EMBOSSING as my E. I used an embossing folder from Altenew and stamps from Little Birdie. I also added 2 black strips and a little bit of splatter.

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This card is for:

AAA Cards - #311 CAS + E is for...
Alphabet Challenge - X IS FOR X-RAY (BLACK AND WHITE ONLY)

INK #363 - Visual prompt - greens

At Inkspirational the new challenge is a visual prompt and we want to see you take inspiration from one or more of the photos below.

I was inspired by the circles and the greeneries. So out came my new Little Birdie background die, bought during my recent 3 week stay in India. The circles being not entirely round shaped I though they would also make great giraffe spots.  The giraffe image and sentiment are from Craft Stash, included as a freebie with a UK magazine some years ago.I love African themed animals and prints, so I have saved the set  until now. The background paper is Craft o´Clock. I used arch dies as my panel for the image and decorated with leaves made with dies from Simple and Basic and small flowers from Little Birdie.

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This card is also for:

I Spy with My Little Eye - #34 Something You Love
Critter Crazy Challenges - Always Anything Goes

 

INK #362 - Word Prompt - Stencil (Plaid)

I am late showing you my card for Inkspirational, where the theme is a word prompt and we want to see you to use stencils. As optonal twist we have the theme of plaid.

I decided to use a plaid stencil from Pinkfresh. I used a stamp on top, added black splatter and a man with a die cut greeting on top. Quick and easy and lots of fun to make.

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INK #361 - Visual prompt - LOVE

 

At Inkspirational the new challenge is a visual prompt and we want to see you take inspiration from the photo below, thhre are so many items to take inspiration from. 

My mother's birthday is this month, so I made a card for her with lots of hearts in pink and red and with an image reminding me of Aimi, my sister's adorable chihuahua. We all adore her. The background was made with stamps from different Tim Holtz sets and Distress Oxide inks

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INK #360 - Word Prompt - XOXO

 

At Inkspirational the new challenge is a word prompt: XOXO. 
I needed a birthday card for my sister who has a chihuahua called Aimi. She's the most cuddly and sweet little creature who enjoys spending time in front of a fan heater, especially this time of year. 
So I thought this image would be perfect for the card. Papers are from Craft o'Clock.

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INK #359 - Visual Prompt - SHADES OF BLUE

 

At Inkspirational the new challenge is a visual prompt and we want to see SHADES OF BLUE. 

I started off stenciling a brick wall background with blue inks. Then I took several man themed items from Craft o'Clock and added a die cut birthday greeting and numbers in dark blue.

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INK #358 - Word Prompt - SHINE/SHINY

 

At Inkspirational the new challenge is a word prompt: SHINE or SHINY. 
I need to stock up on birthday cards and so I made one for a cat lover. I used a new embossing folder and a bronze ink, both from Lisa Horton, to make my background. I cut the sentiment and the leaves from Simple and Basic from golden mirri card. The cat image is from Craft o'Clock, flowers are from Little Birdie and I also added some sisal for extra texture.

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This card is also for:
Little Red Wagon - #838 Use some force
Craft Rocket Challenges - #132 Something New
Krafty Chicks - #801 Birthday

December 2025 Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Happy New Year everyone!
Here's my card for The Card Chain Challenge December reveal.

Usually we have different challenge prompts to choose from (colors, sketch, theme,...), but this month there was a twist. We were to use a NBUS (new but unused stuff), your favourite 3 colours and an animal OR a flower OR a fruit.

My NBUS was en embossing folder from Lisa Horton and my favorte colors weere red, green and white. I chose a cat fot the last prompt. 

My card went to Julia in Massachusetts. 
In return I got a card from Imke in Germany, check out her blog to see how gorgeous it is. Thank you, Imke!

If you want join the fun for January, you can sign up here until til 6th.