Boo-Yah Birthday!

HiHo, fellow blog folk, hoping you are all well and happy. Spirits are joyous here at Casa Winans because our Houston Astros won Game 2 last night against the NY Yankees. WooHoo! It was an extra-innings SLUG fest and we are so proud of our 'Stros!

I have a teen guy card to share today. Our youngest nephew turns 15 next month. We always send a check in a handmade card, and as teen guy cards are my absolute worst fear, I always tell myself to just make a boring card since the interest is the money anyway.

But this time I'm trying something different: a humorous Beccy's Place digital stamp and sentiment from her Slugs and Snails set. I've paired it up with some really old vintage Junkitz Earth Tones Collection patterned paper and lots of ink and edge distressing for a grunge look.

SUPPLIES:
Paper: KI Memories Earth Broadway/Favorite Things and Junkitz Earth Toned patterned paper card stock, SU card stock, Neenah index stock, grey copy paper
Stamps: Beccy's Place Slugs and Snails digital stamps, Stamp Magick siggie stamp
Inks: ProMarkers, Palette Hybrid inks
Dies: Spellbinders A2 Distressed Edges
Stencils: Tim's Layering Stencils: Ringer and Treads
Other/Stash: square antique silver brads, circle punch, ribbon, enamel dots

  

I used the current Outlawz Wednesday Sketch sized to 6x6 in PSE and printed out. I placed the brads I needed to use for Beccy's challenge the same place as the round elements shown on sketch, also placed the sentiment the same. Followed this sketch pretty much to the letter.

I cut my card base from some old KIMemories double-sided 12x12 card stock, which was made to be a scrapbooking layout base and is a bit flimsy on its own for a card. So to strengthen my card walls, I cut a sheet of the 12x12 Junkitz stripes into quarters and adhered all 4 card base surfaces with it. The front has a grey bottom mat for added strength and appearance. I used the grey SU card stock to mat everything on front, after ink and edge distressing all front paper elements with Charcoal Grey Palette ink and a sponge dauber. I love this edge-distressing ink color with these papers. And except for the index stock I printed the image and sentiment on, every cut piece sitting on the striped mat is a Snippet Scrap leftover from previous projects.

The computer-generated sentiment was decorated with ProMarker dots in coordinated colors. For the focal image, I colored this crazy-cute snail named Jose with my ProMarkers and then stenciled some ground dirt (using Treads stencil) and a background (using Ringer stencil) with my Palette inks and sponge daubers. I love the stencil background and my ink color choice was a good one!

I finished it off with my brads (shown here), grey enamel dots and the sheer striped ribbon.

  

Here you can see the inside fully covered with the stripes paper. I combined 3 of Beccy's sentiments in the stamp set with my own "And lots of love..." text in PSE and printed out. Then I die cut it using my Spellbinders die. I couldn't help the SNAIL mail pun, HA!

Like I said, I've had this Junkitz paper collection for a long while so there are lots of snippet scraps from leftover uses. I took a triangular plaid piece and a mod squares rectangle piece and made a little mat for my punched siggie stamp after distressing the edges first.

 A few more close-ups....

 Love Jose Snail and all his SLUGGISH friends in Beccy's stamp set...

Somewhat dimensional and textured, yet still flat enough to SNAIL mail...

I sure hope my nephew doesn't think this is too juvenile for him. To me, this is cartoon-y and snarky and NOT little kid cutesy, but who knows what teens are thinking? This is exactly why I fear teen boy cards! Oh, well, I tried!

CHALLENGES:
1.  Outlawz Wednesday Sketch Oct. 2-15 -- Sketch is shown above
2.  Beccy's Place October Challenge: Beccy's Image + Opt. Brads -- I've used Beccy's Place Slugs and Snails image and I've played the option with 2 brads
3.  2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #31: AG w/a Critter -- I used the sponsor Beccy's Place Snail image and sentiments
4.  Paper Babe Stamps Challenge #104: Movie Night -- A Bug's Life
5.  Outlawz Festive Fridays Oct. 4-17: Birthday theme
6.  613 Avenue Create Challenge #226: AG -- I did NOT play the option
7.  Paper Girls Challenge #185: Birthdays
8.  Mix It Up Challenge #30: AG + Opt. Open Tech -- I've played the option and my technique is stenciling
9.  Pixie's Snippet Playground Challenge #363: AG with a Snippet -- see description above - lots of Snippets. And YES, please, Miss Di, include me in the draw!
10. Colour Crazy Challenge Week 40: AG w/Colouring -- I used ProMarkers to color my image and sentiment.
11. Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge #151: AG + Opt. Warm Colours -- I've played the option with warm colours   

12. The House That Stamps Built Challenge O919: Tic-Tac-Toe -- I did first column on left (Wildlife / Texture / Stencil) and I could also said bottom row (Stencil / Humor / Dimension).

13. Stamplorations October Stencil Challenge: AG w/Stenciling

14.  Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Oct. Challenge: AG w/PP
15.  More Mixed Media Oct. Challenge: AG + Opt. Orange -- I believe my card has enough orange to play the option, but if not, then I've also used mixed media materials so I quality for AG.
16.  Crafty Creations Challenge #400: AG

Thanks so much for visiting and I hope to see you again real soon! xox