Hi & Happy Friday 
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I try hard not to embellish male cards with flowers, but for this male birthday card I made an exception. Since it’s not such a girly girly flower I thought it’d be ok to bend my own rules a little bit. 
The flower has been made of regular newspaper, which I distressed, with Whiff of Joy’s Nested Flowers III’ dies according to Katharina Frei’s tutorial.
I followed this week’s sketch from Sketchy Colors and used the color scheme from The Shabby Tea Room (see pics).
Challenges
Sketchy Colors – #84 Sketch
The Shabby Tea Room – #79 “Boys will be Boys”
Creative Inspirations – #129 Anything Goes
Crop Stop – #37 Button
Fairy Fun -#61 Male
Card Ingredients
Stamp: “Elmit in Tomato Can”, In2Stamps
Copics used: B24, B23, B21 / R29, R24, R22, R20 /Y28, Y26, Y21 / C6, C3, C2, C1, C00 /G24, G40
Papers: “Sailing” /Life by the Sea (Maja Design), “Grunge” /Angel’s Collection (Reprint), “Hello Luscious” (Basic Grey).
Embellishments: Brad Button & Pearls (Stash).
Misc.: “Walnut Stain” & “Vintage Photo” Distress Inks (Ranger’s), Gel Pen (Sakura), Chalk.
Thanks for looking – have a good weekend,
Fabulous card, Sandy. Love the distressing and the flower is awesome! Thanks for playing along with our CropStop Challenge Blog!
Gorgeous creation, love all that distressing and such a super image, thanks so much for joining our challenge at Prairie Fairy Fridays
Debs
xxx
Aww this is so sweet Sandra! Love the image and gorgeous Autumn colours and I love your flower!!! and yes, I think you can get away with it on male card!
) looks fab!
Big Hugs
Sue xx
This card is great!! I love the shabby look, the flower, and the way you have used our sketch!
Thank you for joining Sketchy Colors, and lots of luck!
Hugs, Marianne:)
Wonderful work with distressing! Thanks for joining us at CropStop!
Kathleen
Blog: “Let’s Get Scrappy!”
Absolutely adorable and the colors are fantastic. Thanks for sharing this with us in the CropStop challenge.
Wow a gorgeous card hun! Thanks for playing along with our Anything Goes Challenge at Creative Inspirations Wednesday’s Challenge Blog this week! xxx
OMGosh wow!! Fantastic job!! Love the color combo and the way you did the words! Love all of it and your coloring is outstanding!
Thanks for playing along with us at “Prairie Fairy Fridays” and good luck!
Hugz,
xx Tracey xx
Wow! Just love all that’s going on in this card. Bright and cheerful. Thanks for posting for Crop Stop.