A Wild Sprout Dylan Happy Birthday

Sorry, I don't have very original titles for my posts. I'm just amazed that I have something to post. Today is the start of "no homework" week for my son, which translates into less work for me as well...at least for today. So I decided to make a boy card for the Farm Fresh Friday challenge.

And I needed help from a sketch. I just now discovered that Beate Johns has a list of challenge blogs on her sidebar so I happened to click on Sunday Sketch and Stamp and the latest Challenge #51 was up. I think I should have scaled my card a little better since there seems to be a lot of blank space up top, oh well. I added the eyelets on the left side, and now I remember why I don't really care for eyelets, I don't know how to attach them nicely! I used a Basic Grey paper pack called Recess with PTI cardstock.

I used one of the Tag-Its sentiments, and just punched out a 1 inch circle and added a twine bow. Dylan is colored with prismacolor pencils. Something was weird with the blending stump I used for his clothes, it didn't blend too nicely...I think the tip was too pointy.

Bye! (Possibly for a few weeks)

Comments

Sunghee said…

cool boy card! How long do you usually spend on a card? I dont know how you keep up with making so many cool stuff so often!

April 11, 2011 at 4:34 PM

eva said…

i like dylan too, he's so cute! this looks like a fun boy card! i have something in mind too for the boy challenge, just have to get it done.

April 11, 2011 at 6:38 PM

Claire said…

Great card and image and a good take on the sketch. Thanks for playing along with SS&S this week. Hugs, Claire x

April 11, 2011 at 10:44 PM

Mira said…

Really great, love those colours.
Thanks for joining us at SS&S.
Mira =)

April 17, 2011 at 9:26 PM

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