Krafty Chicks challenge #778 - 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. I know masculine makes can be difficult but we always need them so take the challenge and get ahead. We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I recently purchased a new Penny Black wooden stamp, of course featuring my favourite hedgie character, and I was itching to use it so I grabbed it for today's card.  I love these images as they are so cute and really easy to colour.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A close up of the cute image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the image onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured him with Promarkers and added some white gelly roll pen highlights.  I cut the panel down to 3 1/2" x 4 3/4".  I also cut a lovely green striped patterned paper to 4" x 5 1/4" to use as my mat layer and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I cut two banners, one from green card and one from red card; I added the green banner with double sided tape and the red banner with a foam square to the top left corner.  I originally stamped the sentiment directly on the panel but I pressed a little hard and it didn't come out very well so I stamped it again onto a scrap of white card and cut it out with a sentiment strips die (I also cut another 3 plain white strips and adhered them together with liquid glue).   The sentiment was added below the image using liquid glue covering up my boo-boo!  I added some scrap white card behind my panel for some dimension and stability and then adhered this to the card base with liquid glue.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and stamped the image in the bottom right corner (I used second generation stamping for a softer look).  I used the left over ends of the banners from the front of the card and added them in the bottom left corner with liquid glue.  I had a small strip of the patterned paper left so added that to the top of the panel with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  A fun card and I'm really happy with how it turned out.  

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

Colourful Options challenge - summer mood board (I used red, green and a smidge of yellow)

Crafty Animals challenge - ATG must include an animal

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG optional child's birthday

Creative Inspirations challenge - stars and/or stripes

Critter Crazy challenge - animal birthday

Die Cut Divas challenge - happy birthday

Double D challenge - a card for the kiddos

Girlz Make Guyz cards - ATG male

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - birthday

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG or super heroes

Inkspirational challenge - word prompt 'birthday'

Love Those Pretty Papers challenge - use patterned paper optional theme birthday

Moving Along With The Times challenge - masculine

Penny Black Saturday challenge - ATG optional 'in or on the water'

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - stripes and/or dots

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 supplies:

Penny Black - game on 4129J wooden stamp

Promarkers

Penny Black - balloon ride clear stamp (for outside sentiment)

Echo Park - little girl dots & stripes 6 x 6 paper pad

MFT - blueprints 18 (for banners)

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips die set

Clearly Besotted - simply said birthday (for inside sentiment)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - not currently available - but they do have 280gsm silky smooth white card available here

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed