…he will make a fool of himself too

Made up a fun birthday card for a colleague using one of Tim’s cute dogs from the Crazy Dogs set.

To help me decorate my card I’ve played along with the current bingo board at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge.  I’ve gone for the diagonal row from the top left using a blue palette, twine for some embellishment and stamping my dog on a die cut rectangle.

My card follows the sketch over at Paper Craft Crew.  As I needed a rectangle to make my bingo row I swapped out the circle for a rectangle.  I used twine for the same reason and it also goes well for a masculine card, which this is.  I brought the washi tape element to the front to add in my sentiment, which I printed over some digi washi tape and popped up on some foam tape.  This is going out to a colleague who said we weren’t allowed to do anything for his birthday as he didn’t want a fuss, hence the sentiment I added. 

Instead of any embellies for the three small circle elements I’ve used one of the speech bubbles from the Crazy Thoughts set that matched my sentiment.  Think the cute doggie also looks a bit perplexed so he was a good match too. 

I created the grungy background stamping (instead of the text background) with one of the stamps from the Butterfly Melange set.  I stamped the complete stamp three times next to each other using a block and then took the stamp off the block and just stamped as is to get the unfinished portion on the top.  Distress embossing powder completed the worn and grungy look.

At Crafting by Designs they are looking for projects with animals so I am also linking up my doggie card there.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder Super Fine Detail ~ Clear

Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder ~ Weathered Wood

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Simon Says Stamps Dies ~ SSSD111455 Stitched Rectangles

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colours ~ No 20 Black, No 35 Carmine Red, No 44 Light Brown, No 46 Brown, No 47 Dark Brown & No 91 Blush Gold

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Markers ~ Black Soot & Weathered Wood

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Blue Note

Pion Design Palette ~ Blue V

Stamps

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection ~ THJ002 Butterfly Melange, CMS238 Crazy Thoughts & CMS271 Crazy Dogs

Ribbons & Trims etc

Miss Lavanda Digital Washi Tape ~ Geometric 8 Little

Grey & White Baker’s Twine from stash

Challenges

Crafting by Designs ~ Animals

Paper Craft Crew #249 ~ Sketch

Tic Tac Toe #003 ~ Left diagonal

Thanks for stopping by!