Chillin'

This little guy from Lili of The Valley is bushed from all the work he's done. Lol! My DH has been grounded with a bad knee and had to have surgery on it. In the mean time our yard was beginning to look like no one lived here but the pine cones. So a group of our friends got together, came over and picked up pine cones, mowed the weeds and did a little clean-up of dead branches. So I made these thank you cards for them. I know they're a little cutesie for men, but I didn't want to get too serious. I didn't have enough of any one background color, so I did some in each color. Here is the one with the darker background.


This is the one on the lighter background paper.

On both cards I used some Basic Grey paper (the orange) and a neat denim paper by Paper Pizazz. The sentiments are by My Sentiments Exactly, which look better cut out. One card has the "raindrops" (or whatever you call them" and the other, buttons. Now to the "flowers"; the blue things are an attempt to make something that wasn't so girlie, but I'm not entirely thrilled with the way they turned out. But the other ones, I think turned out pretty cool (I'm giving my age away with my adjectives). They started out as poptop can rings. I took some tin snips from my husband and cut them in half and then put drywall tape under them. The large one was to large for a button, so I cut 1" circles out of a soda can, pierced it all over, and then colored it with alcohol inks. The petals on the smaller one were colored with an orange sharpie and topped with a button.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Ellephantastic Challenges - distressing

Basic Grey Challenges - stitching and something BG - orange paper

Creative Inspirations Challenge - anything goes

Dutch Dare Card Challenges - anything goes

Craftalicious Challenges - make your flowers

Scrap Creations - anything goes

Paper Sundaes - stitching

Marks Finest Papers - thank you

The Crafty Pad - ribbon & flowers

Freshly Brewed Designs - thank you

Polka Doodles - coloring contest

Thanks for looking and commenting.

dj1952