Father's day card for F-I-L

Hello friends, welcome to a brand new week!  I'm here to share the card I made for my father-in-law for Father's Day.  I loved the MFT sketch this week so that was my inspiration.  

Here is my card:

here is a close up of the cute critters:

I began by die cutting the city scene twice and adding yellow card behind one and grey card behind the other.  I wanted a sunray background but didn't have a stencil large enough for my 5 x 7 card so I used masking magic to create my own (it's a little bit lopsided but I think it looks ok).  The images were stamped and coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut out.  I stamped both the sentiments in Versafine onyx black ink and die cut them out.  I added the first city scene with liquid glue and added the second one over top with foam tape.  The image were added with foam tape and the strip sentiment and clouds were adhered with liquid glue.  The 2nd sentiment was also added with foam tape.  Quite a lot of dimension on this card but it looked really cool in real life.  

There are still lots of men/boy challenges around so my card fits into quite a lot this time:

MFT sketch challenge #650

Daisy Chain challenge - no design paper

Cardz for Guyz challenge - Father's day

Alphabet challenge - F is for flying 

SSS Monday challenge - masculine

SSS Wednesday challenge - lots of layers

Cutie Pie challenge - dads or lads

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - use a sentiment

MAWTT challenge - man/boy

Pearly Sparkles challenge - make it masculine

Creative Moments challenge - boys and men

Shopping our Stash challenge - let's hear it for the boys

Scrapping 4 Fun challenge - men/boys

Phew!  That's a lot of challenges!  I don't think I've entered so many in one hit for a very long time.  

Thanks for stopping by and leaving me such lovely comments.  I really do appreciate it. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

MFT - to the rescue stamp set

MFT - blueprints 13 (for circle dies)

MFT - city block dienamics

MFT - cutest clouds ever dienamics

Clearly Besotted Stamps - mini messages

Gina K Designs - masking magic strips

Gina K Designs - lemon drop and wild dandelion ink pads

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiment dies

Mama Elephant - confetti creative cuts (for small stars)

My card for Tracy's blog candy

Tracy at Dies to Die For has fantastic blog candy up for grabs (see earlier post) and all you have to do is make a male themed card for any occasion. Well, as Father's Day is fast approaching I made a card for that. I stamped surfafella and watercoloured him with my marvy markers. I used a sentiment I bought from ebay. Rub-on stitches are by DCWV and are really easy to apply and cut out small circles to highlight the plain blue bazzill card. I've had this swirly blue paper for ages and only had a scrap left, so not sure who it's from, sorry. Thanks for looking.