If Age is Just a Number ... Male BD Card

Hello everyone! The Male Room challenge blog wants us to use numbers on our cards this time, and I guess I went a little overboard .... Once I started adding numbers using stencils on the main panel, I just couldn't stop - such fun!

A relative of mine just turned 40-something and knowing he's a bit self-conscious about his age (haha, just wait, young man!), this card will be perfect for him. The Norwegian text stamp from Rubber Dance reads, "If age is just a number ...". The stamp is available in English as well, but this guy is Norwegian, so ...

The white panel was decorated using two different stencils and Distress inks, and a few small numbers in circles stamps (Rubber Dance). I stamped the sentiments on pieces of scrap cardstock and adhered them to the base with foam dots:

  

Inside the card, I stamped these sentiments and a row of numbers:

So, there you have it - a card with numbers, made for a young 40-something:

 

Stamps used: Norwegian Funny Birthday; Pick a Number; Happy Birthday (all from Rubber Dance)

Stencils: Numbers from Panduro; Arrows from Tim Holtz; Lines from Tapestry in Time

 

I'm entering my card to this challenge:

The Male Room - #53 Theme: Numbers  (deadline Feb.14th, midnight GMT)

Thanks for looking!

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The plea below is aimed at no challenge in particular.

      If you run a challenge, may I ask you a couple of favours?       

• Please state clearly in your challenge post which day/date the challenge ends so we who join don't have to do the math by looking at your linky tool closing time thingie, where one must also consider the time zone differences (my May 17th could be your 16th or 18th)
  
• Please state clearly what day/date you will announce the winner(s). That way we won't have to check back several times a month to see if we won some fame and glory, or perhaps a prize. I guess it can be annoying if winners don't acknowledge the honour of an award or claim their prize, but this might very well be the reason why.  It's not that we don't care! :)

     Arright? Goodie! Thank you!  ♥     

Quick & Easy Dinosaur Card

Hello everyone! Our youngest grandson turns 1 year today so I made this card for him:

 

This is not my idea. I found it on Pinterest here and she got the idea from someone else, so I don't know who first came up with it. No matter - I thought it was super cute! I made my own version of the card, tweaked it a little bit here and there.

I used an embossing folder that I thought might resemble the skin of a dinosaur. I never saw one (I'm not THAT old), so who knows ... The nostrils are made of white buttons that I dyed with red alcohol ink, adhered to circles of black cardstock. The original card had black nostrils, but I wanted something red to suggest that flames might come out...

This is what happens when you open the card (which was totally my idea):

I aligned the teeth circles on the inside of the card with those of the outside flap.

There's room to write a greeting below the tongue.

To make the tongue pop up like that, I scored the edge 

and adhered it to the front flap with strong red tape :

The eyes were made with circle punches and goggle eyes.

I lifted the eyebrows up with foam dots:

This card is very appropriate, considering the gift we are giving our grandson ... Grampa Tom made it! The rocking dino has goggly eyes, too, like my card :-)

We debated back and forth whether the dino should be painted, 

but the wood is so pretty with furniture oil only, isn't it? 

The dino was made of ash tree, the rest from pine.

Under construction in Tom's woodshop. 

See how much lighter the wood is without oil.

 

 I know this rocking dinosaur will be a big success  - not just for the little toddler, 

but I bet his parents will love it, too!

So now you see why I had to make this card:

 

I'm entering my dino card to this challenge:

That's Crafty!, Round and Round challenge (use circles)

Deadline: Friday February 10th.

I have another idea for this challenge, so stay tuned ....  

Thanks for looking!

CAS Birthday Card in Gold and Silver

Hello, everyone! I made this card with three challenges in mind; the cue word 'cut' from CASology; the colours gold and silver from That's Crafty's challenge; Darnell's NBUS #8 challenge (NBUS = Never-Before-Used Schtuff). What I had never used before are both the large circle and birthday die cuts:

I cut the big circle only partially and tucked a pair of charm scissors underneath, to illustrate the CASology challenge's cue word, cut, in addition to using two die cuts.

The circle flap is lifted up by some foam dots, revealing the gold cardstock underneath. Attached to the silver scissors are metal threads in silver and gold -  the colours for That's Crafty's challenge:
 

Darnell from the NBUS challenge invites us to use a technique we haven't tried before, and cutting a die cut only partially is new to me ... and it took me three attempts to get it right ... I'm no rocket scientist, apparently!!

But wait a minute. Hadn't I forgotten something vital on this card? - No stamping??? Good grief! And I call myself a stamper? Heck, the very name of my blog is Stamped by Bibi! Oy, vey.

After realising what I had done (or not done), it slowly dawned on my thick head (after a minor panic attack) that there was room for more schtuff inside the card! (Ha! Turns out I'm super smart after all! *phew*)

On the left hand side I have used stamps from the set Happy Birthday from Rubber Dance. On the right hand side I have used one of my favourite stamps from That's Crafty!, namely this adorable cat named Bentley (a Donna Gray design). I gold embossed the greeting from African Animals (also Rubber Dance). I coloured Bentley in using Distress inks and a waterbrush. I repeated the same colours on the left hand side (rusty hinge, mustard seed, picked raspberry), leaving some white space in the middle to write a personal message.

The die cut square frame is gold cardstock. I added some silver embossing around the edge of the sentiment's circle, which is also a NBUS die cut (the set has 8 circles, I had only used a slightly bigger one before). I cut the large circle out of Strathmore Mixed Media paper, which has a smooth surface that I love using for stamped images I want to watercolour such as this:

 

So there you have it, a CAS card on the outside ...

- with a not-so-very CAS inside ....

.... where I've used four different STAMPS,

which means I won't have to change the name of my blog any time soon.

I'm entering my card to these three challenges:

CASology, Week # 232: Cut (due date Jan. 23.)

That's Crafty! : Silver and Gold (due date Jan 27.)

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #8 (due date Jan 22.)

Thanks for looking!

Soft Ball - Birthday Card for a Boy

Many things are soft so I have a few ideas for this week's challenge at CASology. I hope I have time to make more than this one, but I'm going away this weekend and have a few things to do before leaving. Anyway - here's my first of hopefully more entries:

This funny fella is a stamp from Stamp-It (Australia). The stamp comes with that sentiment, but I didn't like the font they had used so I cut it off and stamped the same text with a tiny alphabet stamp (unknown).   Image and text stamped on Strathmore mixed media paper with 2nd impression of black Archival Ink, as I do not have any water resistant grey and I wanted it to be soft. Coloured in with ZIG clean colour markers and a waterbrush. 

I added the yarn before mounting on a grey panel, then added the scissor charm from the Norwegian company Korthobby. I think those scissors were fun to add to a sheep card :-)

The Korthobby challenge right now is 'Masculine & Metall from Korthobby.no' and I hope they think my ram is manly enough to pass! I used grey and blue to make my card suitable for a boy's birthday. (For any Norwegian who might not know: 'Have a ball' basically means 'Ha det kjempegøy', and it's also a play with words since the ram is a ball of yarn).

I'm entering my card to these two challenges:

Korthobby: Maskulint & Metall
CASology: Soft

Thanks for looking!