Tuesday 22 February 2011

A Surfing Dude Card

All the cards I need to make for the next couple of weeks are for boys/men, and I always struggle to get any inspiration for making them. I had a huge tidy up of my papers last week, and was flicking through a huge DCWV stack I have, and saw some really fabbie papers, that would make a great card for my Nephew. Dominic is going to be 16 in a couple of weeks, he lives in Greece with my sister and his dad, and is heavily into all types of water sports. Having found the papers, and a design for the card, I asked the girls on the MSE card thread, if anyone knew where I could get a surfer image from. Very kindly, Ali offered to send me a decoupage kit of a surfer, and it was waiting for me when I got in from work this afternoon.

Having been the dutiful wife and started making dinner early, it was time to get crafting, and as a result of a bit of faffing with papers, this is what I came up with, and I am very pleased with the finished card.

The layout of the card is the current sketch on Craft your Days Away, and the recipe of the card is from Cards for Men which was - 1 image; 2 design papers ; and 3 embellishments. The card candy and sentiment are from my stash, as was the red card for the mats.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Card For Men Challenge - recipe
Craft Your Days Away - sketch
Party Time Tuesday - anything goes
Karens Doodles Challenge - masculine
ECP Challenge - something for the boys

17 comments:

  1. Fab - I could not have done it justice those papers are brilliant xx

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  2. A fabulous male card, great image.

    Thanks for joining us for our sketch challenge over at CYDA.

    Hugs

    Joanne xx

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  3. Cute card! The papers are great and worked really well with the image. Thanks for joining PTT this week and we hope to see you again soon!

    Patchi
    PTT-DT

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  4. That sketch really suits your card such lovely cards great lovely to see some male cards too :)

    thank you for joining CYDA this fortnight

    liz xx

    thank you for joining CYDA this fortnight

    liz xx

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  5. That's fab - love the bright colours in the card - really sets it off.

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  6. Brilliant card Caroline, I'm sure your nephew will really like this. Fab papers you've used.

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  7. Awesome card - great choice of image and papers. x

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  9. Oh wow Caroline, what a super surfer card! I love the papers you've used with that fab image. Thank you for joining us at Craft Your Days Away for our sketch challenge and Cards for Men for our recipe challenge, good luck xxx

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  10. smashing card Carolone, thanks for joioning us on Karens' Doodles
    Anne x

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  11. Great masculine card Caroline... Thanks for joining us at Karen's Doodles this week :)

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  12. Lovely card, love the colour and the surf dude is great!

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  13. Love your little surfer dude and the fun surf board paper. Very cute! Thanks for joining us at PTT. Hope to see you again soon.
    ~Renee
    Party Time Tuesdays DT

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  14. He is too fun, dude!! Love it!! Thanks for partying with us this week at Party Time Tuesdays!!

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  15. This is an awesome teenager card! I love the paper, it fits the image so perfectly! THANKS for joining us at Karen's Doodles this week!!
    Chris

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  16. Great card, those papers are perfect

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