Krafty Chicks challenge #752 - Masculine

Good morning lovely friends. I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 4.  This year we have changed the themes up a little and week 4 is now 'masculine'.  I know it's not a theme that everyone enjoys but we all have some males in our lives that we have to create for so let's bite the bullet and get creating.  Our hostess this week is Lori and we hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

My brother-in-law's birthday is coming up soon so it was the perfect opportunity for me to make him a card.  He is into motorbikes so when I found this image I knew it would be ideal for him.  It's not my favourite card ever but I think it's ok and I'm sure my brother-in-law will love it, which is the most important thing.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the motorbike:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the bike onto alcohol marker friendly card using black ink and coloured it with my Promarkers (I didn't do a lot of shading but it looks ok).  I was going to make a 5" x 7" card but I had a little mishap with my image panel (I cut it too small lol) so my card ended up being 5 1/2" square.  I stamped the distressed lines stamp onto some red card using black ink and adhered it to the image panel using double sided tape.  I matted it onto a black panel again with double sided tape.  To make the join look more finished I added a thin strip of black card with liquid glue.  I stamped the happy birthday sentiment onto white card and cut it out with a sentiment strip die.  I die cut the letters from black card 3 x times and adhered them together with liquid glue.  Unfortunately I had something sticky on my paper trimmer which left little marks on my image panel that I couldn't remove; to salvage the panel I decided to add dots around the bike with black, grey and red markers.  I added the birthday strip in the top right corner with foam squares and the letters to the bottom left corner with liquid glue.  I had an area under the bike that looked a little bare so I punched 3 different circles from white, red and black card and adhered them with liquid glue.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4 1/2" square and matted it onto a black panel with double sided tape.  I stamped part of the bike image into the left lower corner using a mid grey ink and added some more dots to coordinate with the front of the card.   I stamped the sentiment in black ink in the centre of the panel.  The panel was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Christmas (or not) Bingo challenge - Line I - square, layers, stamped images

Crafter's Cafe challenge - ATG optional twist birthdays

Crafty Calendar challenge - add a die cut (3rd entry)

Creative Knockouts challenge - something to say (10 challenges max)

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - always birthday

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG or springtime

Scrapping4Fun challenge - ATG

Stamping Sensations challenge - hand coloured image (3rd entry)

Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge - sketch #294

Unicorn challenge - birthday

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'masculine' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky. Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori.

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments.

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

Clear Impressions - for the boys stamp set (free in a magazine)

Promarkers

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiments dies

Gina K Designs - on the inside - birthday stamp set

MFT - little letters die-namics - retired

Limetree Crafts -  250gsm silky smooth white card (currently not available but this 250gsm smooth white card is an alternative in stock here)

Hobbycraft - A4 black card 

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

red card from stash