Krafty Chicks challenge #757 - 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; as always the theme is 'masculine' and Lori is our hostess. Not everyone's favourite theme but we always need these types of cards so come over and join in the fun with us.

I didn't make this card with anyone in mind but realised I didn't have any baby cards in my stash so thought I would make a baby boy card for a change.  I really wanted to use one of my new Lili of the Valley dragon stamps as they are adorable.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A close up of the super cute image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping my dragon image onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured it with Promarkers and added some white gelly roll pen highlights.  I found an older congratulations die in my stash (not sure if I have ever used it) and cut it 4 times from white card.  I decided to colour the letters with the same purple and lime green marker that I used on my image (although the green looks more yellow in my photos).  I adhered the 4 die cuts together with liquid glue, placing the marker coloured one on top.  I cut the dragon with a circle die which was slightly larger than the congratulations die cut and added that directly onto a kraft panel (which was to 4" x 5 1/4") with liquid glue.  I then adhered the congratulations die on top, again with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in purple ink and cut it out with a sentiment strip die.  I added this to the lower right corner of the panel with liquid glue.  As a final finishing touch I die cut 3 stars, 2 from green card and 1 from purple card and added them with foam squares.  At the last moment I decided to cut down my panel ever so slightly to 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and added this to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut a kraft panel 3 3/4" x 5" and stamped the dragon in the bottom right corner with purple ink.  The sentiment was stamped in the same purple ink in the upper centre of the panel and I die cut 3 more stars to match the front and added them with liquid glue.  I finished off by adding some white highlights to the dragon with a gelly roll pen.  The panel was added to my card base with double sided tape.  A really cute card and something different from the usual 'blue for a boy' cards that I would normally make.  

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

Creative Knockouts challenge - finish the inside

Creative Moments challenge - cute

Everybody Art challenge - kids/baby

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - fantasy/myth

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG or add some sparkle

My Time To Craft challenge - 1-2-3 recipe (1 image, 2 colours, 3 stars)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Sweet Stampin' challenge - masculine makes

The Dream Factory challenge - Mia & Me (inspired by fantasy)

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:

Lili of the Valley - dragons and unicorns A5 stamp set

Promarkers

MFT - congratulations circle frame die - retired

MFT - itty bitty baby clear stamp (for sentiments)

MFT - blueprints 18 (for star die) - retired 

Gina K Designs - wild lilac ink pad

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed

Crafter's Companion - kraft card stock 280gsm

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - currently not available

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen