Time for July's Love To Craft Challenge #48!

Happy July 1st, Blogging Friends! Hopefully, all of our Blogger blogs are still functioning (for all of you on other platforms, it's a bit of a cyber-2000 deja vu where Blogger is changing the default layout on all the blogs to white). I get it, less graphics space to have to host for free, but it's causing a huge amount of anxiety on top of everything else we have to be anxious about! I'm praying mine survives! It's time to share what I've made for the 48th Anything Goes monthly challenge over at Love to Craft!

My design team sample for this month is a hexagon-shaped card with a digital image colored with ProMarkers and a background scene created by inking a sky and ground, then layer-stenciling the hanging vines and rocky earth. Just a lovely summer day in the African wild, right? ;-)

Image: Whimsy Stamps freebie digital image Daddy Lion, computer-generated sentiment
Papers: Kaisercraft Into the Wild, Fancy Pants It's the Little Thins, SU & Springhill CS
Dies: Lifestlye/Quickutz Nested Hexagons, Spellbinders Labels 21
Stencils: A Colorful Life Suds Stream, CC Sara Signature Enchanted Forest Hanging Foliage
Inks: ProMarkers and Palette Hybrids

I knew I wanted to make a shaped card before I even began, but I also needed the inspiration of a sketch, so I went looking for one that would lend itself to an overall hexagon shape. When I saw this old Split Coast Stampers sketch, I saw that shape as well as the top sky, the bottom earth, the vine canopy, the lions, the sentiment, everything.

The Kaisercraft paper pad included some tags and borders so I used the Roar text border and cut some fringe with my Martha Stewart fringe scissors, then gave it a little curl.

I'll include a handwritten note but I lined the inside of the card with Fancy Pants paper and added a die mat and a little tag - the Fancy Pants papers also included tags and borders. :-)

For the back, I stamped my custon siggie on a larger label die, inked it a bit for color and then drew lines all around with my Sakura gold metallic glitter pen. Fancy Pants striped and flowered papers die cut with the Hexagons.

Up top I combined I combined more of the Kaiserkraft Roar border, cutting off the curl this time, with a Fancy Pants 100% Cute border.

A close-up of the gel-pen and heat-embossed shimmer and shine...

This card was made for a guy friend from way back in high school to congratulate him on his 3rd grandchild and 1st granddaughter. He's divorced so there's no wife and to tell you the truth, I almost did not make him a card. I'd never made a Welcome Baby card for a single guy! All my images were way too feminine, but then I spied this adorable Whimsy stamp and immediately thought it was purrrr-fect (heehee) for my purposes! My friend is even a Leo, to boot. I tried to keep it pretty masculine. What do you think, did I succeed?

Please check out the lovely designs my teamies have made for you over at LTCCB and join us if you can! Thanks as always for coming by to check me out and I hope we all have an upbeat, positive, healthy and safe week! XOXO

MY CHALLENGES PLAYLIST:
1.  Split Coast Stampers Sketch #462 -- Sketch is shown above
2.  The Male Room #139: Use Die Cuts -- mine are listed above in post  

3.  A Place to Start June Challenge: Create a Shaped Card
4.  The Sisterhood of Crafters Stenciling Challenge -- I've described my stenciling and the stencils used in my post.
5.  Try It On Tuesday: Create a Scene
6.  I Love ProMarkers #413: AG + Opt. Embellishment -- I coloured my scene with ProMarkers and I played the option with a fringed border and a bow.
7.  Scrapping 4 Fun #169: AG

8.  Catch the Bug June Color Challenge -- I used the grey, light blue and the browns.

9.  Outlaws Festive Fridays 6/26-7/9: Anything Goes theme
10. Use Your Stuff #401: Free Week
11. Crafty Cardmakers #260: Create Your Own Background -- I created an outdoor background scene.
12. Aud Sentiments #254: Summer + Sentiment
13. Cut It Up Challenge #203: Die Cut + Celebrate Summer Colors -- my card uses light turquoise sky, bright green vines, hot pink bow, and yellow beige cubs fur with reddish yellow top manes and honey yellow ground stenciling.
14. Creative Sketchy Girls #49: Man's Card - my card is a Welcome Baby card for a Grandpa friend.
15.  Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 24: AG with Colouring -- I coloured my focal image, base ground and sky with ProMarkers and used Palette Hybrid inks with my stencils.
16.  Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #134: AAG