Happy 7th birthday Male Room Craft Challenge!

Morning all

So August is also a birthday month for The Male Room Craft Challenge. I’m helping them celebrate their 7th birthday with this male themed card. 

Here I have used the stamp set that came with issue 82 of Creative Stamping and coloured the images with Tonic Nuvo alcohol markers.

I fussy cut the images by hand although I do have a Scan n Cut sometimes I like to do a little fussy cutting, especially if the images are easy to cut. 

Now the tricky bit for this card was to die cut the circles and ovals onto the patterned paper but then get the smaller dies to line up and cut the plain card below. That was a bit of a faff and is clearly why I prefer CAS!! 😂

Finally I added the sentiment using a white oval with inked edges. I have lifted all the images with foam pads but I have doubled up the height for the main images of boots and camera. 

This card really sums up our day yesterday. In my wisdom (!) I decided to take the children on a nice long walk. One we hadn’t done before through the woods and fields around our village. And we got lost!!! It’s actually surprisingly easy to wander off the path in the middle of a field. 🤦🏻‍♀️

But we didn’t panic, we sat down and had a picnic instead. 😂 

And after some sustenance I decided the best route was to climb though some tangled fencing, brambles and nettles and find our way back to the original path...and call it an ‘adventure’. This seemed to go down alright with the children!

Hmm I wonder what mischief we can get up to today...

Thanks for stopping by.

Steph x