The Crafty Den: 01/09/2025

Hello again friends and happy 1st of September. I hope you all had a wonderful summer and the kids are ready to go back to school soon. Let's hope the first of the 'ber' months isn't too bad and we have some crisp, dry days and not lots of rain!

I'm here today to share my card for this month's AAA Birthday challenge and this month our theme is 'snarky' which is such a fun challenge. The urban dictionary's definition is:

"Snarky" is used to describe speech with a specific emotional tone, typically a form of sarcasm informed by cheekiness and a mild, playful irreverence or impudence".

We all love playful, fun sentiments and there are loads of stamp companies that make these types of greetings. Dig through your stash, I'm sure you have some; even if it's just 'you're how old?' Our guest designer this month is the lovely Carol so please pop over to her blog and leave her some love.

As you know I love MFT Stamps (so sad they are now closed) and I had the perfect set for this challenge. I don't think I will ever not grab for my MFT products as they are so fun. Anyway enough waffling, I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel using a stitched rectangle die. I cut the strip of striped patterned paper using a torn edge die and also the stitched rectangle die so that it would match up with the white panel (in hinsight I could have skipped the torn edge as I ended up covering most of it lol!). I adhered this to the left edge of the panel with liquid glue. I cut a small strip of spotty paper and added that to the bottom of the panel with liquid glue. I also die cut a stitched rounded rectangle from some grid paper and adhered that to the centre with double sided tape, overlapping the other patterned papers. I stamped the image onto alcohol marker friendly card and coloured it with Promarkers. I don't have the dies for this set so I fussy cut him out. I stamped the snarky sentiment onto orange card with Versamark ink and white heat embossed it, using my trimmer to cut it out. I added foam squares to the sentiment and image and adhered the sentiment just overlapping the spotty paper and the image on top so that he looked like he was standing on it. I finished off with some enamel dots (still trying to use them up). For the inside I cut a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and added a strip of orange card at the bottom with double sided tape and then a piece of the striped paper with liquid glue, which I again cut with the torn edge die. I fussy cut another image, but this time only the top half, coloured him with Promarkers and added him with liquid glue. I stamped the sentiment in the centre with navy ink. The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape. A really fun card and I think this will be perfect for any of my older relatives.

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

* to be updated *

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,