Monday, February 24, 2014

Best Wishes

My oldest nephew will be turning TWENTY in March! Gosh...he was just a wee little bugger (three) when Tony and I started dating. Where does the time go?!?! Anyhoo...I needed to make a birthday card for him and found some wonderful inspiration from the most recent Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge and Color Throwdown #280.






Here's my creation:




I altered the sketch a little but hopefully you can still see the main components. Isn't that color combo fantastic?!?! I love it! And if you look closely you'll see I embossed the navy blue card base with a honeycomb embossing folder. Just adds a little something.

What do you think? Hopefully my nephew will like it!

Thanks for stopping by today

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Supplies:
Stamps: Geobasics and Simply Said (Paper Smooches)
Ink: Nautical Blue and Olive Grove Memento (Tsukineko), Soft Pool (Hero Arts), Deep Lagoon Versafine (Tsukineko)
Cardstock: White and Aqua Mist (Papertrey Ink), Navy (DeNami Design)
Vellum: White (DeNami Design)
Embossing Powder: Clear (American Crafts)
Embossing Folder: Honeycomb (by Darice and available at DeNami Design)
Brad: (from my stash)

 

8 comments:

Vickie Z said...

Love how you used the colors and sketch!! Perfect guy card.... Your nephew will love it!! Thxs for joining us at CTD!!

Laura Davis said...

This is awesome Lisa, they grow up solo fast. Claudia is going to be 19 on wednesday!! Ack
Laura

Joyce said...

Awesome card. Love graphics for masculine cards, and this one is fantastic.

Lisa Elton said...

Perfect for your nephew Lisa, modern and FUN!!

~amy~ said...

PERFECT for your nephew...awesome masculine card!

Larissa Heskett said...

WoW!! This is REALLY FUN Lisa!! =)I LOVE the Design and the FUN color combo and the way you used them!! GREAT take on the Challenges!!=) P.S Not sure if you follow the Moxie Fab World Blog?? But this would also fit into their Hexagon Challenge going on now until March7th just incase you wanted to link it up to the Challenge too for another chance to win!!?? Have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)

Larissa Heskett said...

WoW!! This is REALLY FUN Lisa!! =)I LOVE the Design and the FUN color combo and the way you used them!! GREAT take on the Challenges!!=) P.S Not sure if you follow the Moxie Fab World Blog?? But this would also fit into their Hexagon Challenge going on now until March7th just incase you wanted to link it up to the Challenge too for another chance to win!!?? Have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)

Jen W. said...

Super cool and graphic! Such a great guy card! Into my CASE file it goes!