Bending the Rules

Hi & Happy Friday ,

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,