Birthdays...

Another male birthday card! I seem to have had quite a few of them to make recently and like everyone else I get that sinking feeling whenever I'm asked for one or I have one to make to send.

I think it's the thought of no flowers - no ribbon and perhaps no bling - sigh - men no taste! LOL.

Anyway I was asked to make a birthday card for a gentlemen who was about to celebrate his 7oth. It was tricky because I had no clues as to whether he was fisherman, golfer or anything. I decided to use this image from Joanna Sheen's 'Fashion Boutique' CD. There are some fantastic images on there and quite of them are suitable for men's cards.

I like black and silver together and alongside some matting and layering I used a cuttlebug border die to do the trellis type border along the base of the image. I actually put some black bling on there too, which you might just be able to make out in the picture.

I'm entering this card into as many challenges as possible, because I seem to have got way behind lately and feel like I have deserted the challenges I love so...

Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog - 'S' - Smoking!! (Hey I'm grasping at straws here - bear with me!)

The Allsorts Challenge - Vintage

Pile it on - no patterned paper and at least one other challenge involved

Happy Birthday Tony...

Yeah as well as being Pink Elephant day it's my friend Irene's husband's birthday today too!

Good job the challenge at the Pink Elephant this week is ...

turquoise - brown and neutral

LOL - some colour combinations might not have been quite so suitable!!

Think this ought to be called a 'gadget' card as I've used so many machines on it - Cuttlebug folders - Swiss Dots and the Happy Birthday one and my Cricut to do the star shapes and the lettering.

I used a sketch from my collection and I think this one was a Mojo Monday one from way back. I really love their sketches and use them over and over again. I've added a patch of vellum over the words paper on the left hand side.

I love vellum over writing - it softens it beautifully and makes a great contrast (well not so much in the photo but in real life it does) between the vellum covered and the not covered paper.

Huge Computer Problems...

Dreadful - horrible - totally dire week.

My computer has been playing at Silly Billys and has done the strangest things, but I've had it confirmed by a lovely man from Comet that there are no viruses and nothing wrong!

Ha! So why wouldn't it let me type anything?

So why couldn't I access anything in Blogland?

Then as suddenly as it stopped working everything was okay again.

So strange -sheeeeeeeeesh!

Anyway I'm back - although even though working it threw another wobbly last night and after commenting on only 3 friend's blog Google accused me of me a spammer and locked me out! Oh my!

Hopefully this time everything will be okay for a while anyway.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone.