And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon

Only two weeks in to the new year and birthday season has well and truly started and I have my first kidlet birthday card to share, featuring the cute Jude and Lazy from the Teen Scene Dragon Pets collection at Simply B Stamps.

This card is for a nephew who turns three this week so I’ve kept the embellies to a minimum lest they end up being swallowed!  It follows the current Sketch Saturday sketch, a nice CAS one that works well for a boy.  I printed off the sentiment on my card base before adding on my layers, I jazzed it up with some embossing.

I like to use challenge themes to help me make up my cards, they are often a good prompt, like the current one at Allsorts to use a ribbon.  I really do need to use up my huge stash of ribbon so rather than use a paper banner I added a line of ribbon for that element of the sketch.

With my cheery yellow background card I am also entering this in the current challenge at Wordplay Saturday.

Ingredients:

Jude

Skin E50, E51, E53, (E02 cheeks)

Hair E31, E35, E29, E49

Outfit E31, E33, E35, E40, E42, E44, E47, E49, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Lazy BG02, BG05, BG07, BG09, BG10, BG11, BG23, BG34, T6, T8, T10, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28, 0, 100

Smoke C00, T2, 0

Dies & SVGs etc

Spellbinders Nestabilties – A2 Curved Matting Basics

Embellishments

Freckled Fawn Wood Chip Pins – November Oh Deer Me Kit

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Scattered Straw

Papers

BoBunny Anthem – Country

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock – Scattered Straw

Ribbons & Trims

Hessian Ribbon from stash

Stamps

Simply B Stamps – Jude and Lazy

Challenges

Allsorts Challenge #241 – Use Ribbon but no bows

Sketch Saturday #292

WordPlay Saturday Challenge January – Yellow

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Birthday Suited

This very blue card is heading off to a colleague for his birthday, hence all the manly blues and no embellies.  It features 1920’s Kody from Some Odd Girl.

I’ve cropped Kody to fit the sketch, which is the July sketch challenge one from the Some Odd Girl blog.  I keep going to Kody when I need a stylish male card, he is just perfectly dapper.  The sketch was a good fit too with lots of clean lines to it and I finally got to use some of my Washi tape too!

This card features four layers (I love adding layers of paper, makes cards nice and heavy and substantial!) and a 1920’s gentleman so I’m entering it in the Crafts-Too Challenge You era with layers twist challenge.  And as it is most definitely a birthday card (I’m not much for sentiments on the front of my cards!) I’m also entering it at Word Play Saturday where the theme is birthdays.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53

Eyes E23, E25, E27, 0

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Belt BV25, B29

Belt Buckle & Buttons Spica Silver

Shirt BV20, 0

Tie BV20, BV23, BV25

Vest & Pants B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

Dies

Spellbinders Nestabilities 5x7 Matting Basics

Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Squares

Paper

Bazzill Cardstock – Blue

Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman – Dressed to the Nines

Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman – The Sophisticate

Tape

Gorjuss Patterned Craft Tape

Stamp

Some Odd Girl 1920’s Kody

Challenges

Crafts-Too Challenge You – Choose a Decade or Era & Twist 2 Add 3 or More Layers

Some Odd Girl – July Sketch Challenge

Word Play Saturday – July Challenge Birthdays

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