The Crafty Den: 01/08/2025

Hello again friends and happy 1st of August. I hope you all had a wonderful July, although it went by in the blink of an eye once again. I had a great month as it was my birthday on the 12th and I was spoilt as usual by my lovely friends and family. I even got to relax and watch the Wimbledon finals that weekend too.

I'm here today to share my card for this month's AAA Birthday challenge and this month our theme is 'sport' which is such a fun challenge. Don't forget sports are unisex so you can make a pink football card if you like! I hope you will take on our challenge this month and get creating. Our guest designer this month is the lovely Cathy R. so please pop over to her blog and leave her some love.

I recently bought some dies from a new-ish craft company and they were perfect for this month's theme. Most of the men in my life enjoy football so this card will definitely find a new home very soon. I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the images:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting the football silhouette images from black glossy card, plus I also cut an extra two layers from white card and stacked them up with liquid glue. I die cut 4 of the postage style rectangles and leaving the die in place lightly ink blended some green and blue ink for a soft background. I white heat embossed my birthday sentiment onto black card and use a sentiment strips die to cut it out. I cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and arranged the 4 rectangles in a grid layout, adhering them with liquid glue. I also added each of the football silhouette images with liquid glue over each rectangle. I added the sentiment in the centre with foam squares. I added some scrap white card behind my white panel for some thin dimension and then adhered it to my card base with double sided tape. No embellishments this time as I thought there was enough going on. For the inside I cut another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and ink blended the green and blue inks to about half way up. I adhered another silhouette footballer to the bottom left corner with liquid glue and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink. The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape. I'm really happy with how this card turned out.

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - birthdays

Creative Moments challenge - embossing (my sentiment is heat embossed)

Girlz and the Art of Letters challenge - Letter F - football

Girlz Makes Guyz cards challenge - ATG masculine

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - birthday

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie challenge - happy birthday

Inkspirational challenge - word prompt 'birthday'

Little Red Wagon challenge - masculine

Make My Monday challenge - masculine

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs. I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed. I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

Have a great day.

Love and hugs,