Sunday, July 25, 2010

Birthday on Wheels


Hello there!

If you have been reading my previous posts, you'd probably know that August will be a super busy month for me. Not only will I be moving to a new house (yaaayy!!), but I also have to make five birthday cards to send out throughout the month (pheeww).

So I may as well get a head start, I thought, by making one of the birthday cards this weekend.The first person who's having his birthday in August is my brother in law, who's a huge fan of cars. Yep, you guessed correctly, that's why finding a theme for this birthday card was a piece of cake, LOL. Today's card will be the card that I'd send to him next week, so I'm basically keeping my fingers crossed that he won't be reading this blog post before the card's off in post, LOL :).

As I was blog hopping, I also happened to come across the Paper Cutz Blog's Challenge #51, which is to make a creation that features something with wheels, which is a perfect match with this project's idea. I combined the theme with Sweet Stampin' Challenge Blog's Challenge 36, create something vintage, and came up with the design for this card.


I used Martine's Sketch from Simon Says Challenge Blog, although I think I might have made quite an alteration on the sketch as I thought following it as is might disrupt the topper's balance on my design--sorry, Martine :).


I also used Donna's recipe from the Cards for Men blog, which is Challenge #15. They'd asked readers to combine one image, two papers and three embellishments, which is exactly what I've done (well, although I used more than three embellishments. Couldn't resist the temptation! But I did use three buttons, though).

The Fussy and Fancy Girls over at the Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge have also posted an exciting challenge a week ago, which is creating a design with scallop, stitches and sparkles. I used faux stitches for this card, adhered scalloped edges to one of the papers, and used four sparkly (well, metallic, to be exact) eyelets to embellish the card. And last but not least, I'm also posting this card to Digi Doodle Shop's Best Anything Goes Challenge.


Again, I used two of my "For His Eyes Only" digital papers for this card. I have not grown out of it for now :), plus I haven't gotten around to designing another kit for men :) :).

Well, that's all for tonight. It's gonna be the start of a busy week tomorrow, so I'd better kick it off with a good night sleep!! Thanks for visiting and have a great week ahead!

Love,
F

9 comments:

Jóna said...

Love the vintage look, great card !!
Thanks for joining our "Anything Goes" challenge at Digi Doodle Shop's Best!
Hugs, Jóna

Feby N. McCann said...

Thank you for the comment Jóna, and thanks for visiting my blog!
Cheers,
Feby

Jo said...

spot on! perfect vintage card :)
Thanks for joining us this week at sweet stampin
Jo xx

Feby N. McCann said...

Thanks for visiting and thanks for leaving behind your comment, Jo! :)
Cheers,
Feby

Juanita said...

Very nice masculine card. Great take on the Fussy and Fancy challenge. Thanks for joining us.

Feby N. McCann said...

Thanks for visiting Juanita! All the best for the Fussy and Fancy girls :)

Tracie said...

I love your card. I adore the vintage look.

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Thank you for visiting Tracie! :)