Monday, 15 March 2010

Cards For Men 6th challenge - happy birthday



A nice simple theme for you for this fortnight's Cards For Men challenge, it's simply 'happy birthday' - so you can enter any male birthday card. We're sponsored this time by Roberta from Prairie Fairy - I'm lucky enough to be on her design team and her digi stamps are really lovely, and you could win 3 of them :o)

I've used one of the images from the Cuppycakes set - this wasn't how I originally planned the image to look! I tried to glaze and glitter the image but the lines went all blurry and it just looked terrible, so I printed it off again onto orange cardstock, cut out the top of the cake and layered it up instead. I've added a bit of glamour dust to the stars on the cake.... I'm not happy with it though, doesn't look quite right to me! The papers are MME, cardstock is a mix of DCWV and some green pearlised card from my stash. I embossed a piece of the green card with the cuttlebug spots and dots folder, added some stars (cut with nesties), MME buttons and a Craftwork Cards sentiment.

I'm also entering my card for the following challenges:


23 comments:

Nannieflash said...

Fabulous card Lisa, it looks really yummy, the papers are gorgeous. With love and hugs Shirleyxxxx

Anonymous said...

Oh so yummy girl!! Love the fun bright colors on this and all of those fun embellies!! So perfect for being slick!! ;) Thanks for joining along with us at Saturday Spotlight girl!! HUGS

Margreet said...

stunning card Lisa!
xxx Margreet

Lori said...

Oooooh Lisa, I love the bright colours, and the matchy matchy stars, such a great male card!!!!

Mira said...

This is really great, love the bright colours :)
Thanks for joining us at SS&S.
Mira =)

craftymum said...

A yummy card Lisa
Love sarah XXX

Arianne said...

Great card! Don't think you tweeked the sketch to much, I can still see it in there!
Thanks for playing along with my sketch at SS&S.

Hugs, Arianne
SS&S team

Sarpreet said...

brilliant card love it

Unknown said...

Well it looks good enough to eat to me Lisa! It's SCRUMMY! Hugs Viv xxx

coops said...

stunning card, i love the cake and really great zingy colours.luv coops.xx

Catherine said...

Thank you for joining us at Cupcake Craft ! Your card is stunning : love the embossed card and your choice of colours is fab ! Smiles from Catherine

Jackie said...

Love the vibrant colours, fab card :)
Jackie xx

carol said...

Hi lovely card, love the embossing too, thanks for playing along with CraftyCatz, x carol

CRAZYCRAFTSHED said...

Hi Lisa
A fabulous card,thankyou for joining us at CraftyCatz for this week's challenge,
Hugs Dianne xx

Victoria said...

fab card Lisa, love the stars and spots what a fab combination
Thanks so much for joining in at Cupcake Crafts this week
Hugs
Victoria
x

Kat said...

This looks pretty good to me. I love how you can do male cards. Always takes a lot of thought from me.

Kat xx

Darlene said...

Such a fun card! Love the bright colors! Thanks for joining us at Saturday Spotlight!!

Lori said...

What a great 'man' card, Lisa! It seems to come naturally for you : ) I always struggle with those... Happy crafting!
Love and hugs ~ Lori

Boni Boutelle-Jones said...

This is so cool! Love all the manly bits and bright colors!!

Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...

WOW!Lovely card!!Look at all those stars!!Awesome take on the slick challenge. Thanks for joining us at the Sat. Spotlight.

Anonymous said...

Today is my first visit to your page and I love this card, love the colors, the stars, the embossed strip of paper, the buttons, the paper....lovely!. I started making cards about 9 months ago and I'm always looking for inspiration and new techniques.
I am addicted to cardmaking I have to admit it ..I have ran out of people to send cards to but I keep making them.
I will keep coming back
Thanks for sharing ..... Maria L. (Canada)

Maria Matter said...

this is lovely!!! your slick embellies are wonderful!
Blessings, Maria

Christy said...

This is AWESOME!!! Definitely one of my favorite birthday cards I've seen :)