Showing posts with label Here Come The Boys Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Here Come The Boys Challenge. Show all posts

Monday, May 16, 2011

M&M Man Card

A sneak peek at my 2nd post for today

A close up of cute little teddy bear slippers

Over at HCTB (Here Come the Boys) they are having their second manly-man card challenge using a sketch.
Here is the sketch and link so you can hop on over there and check it out yourself!


I thought I wanted to paper piece a card, but after attempting that, I reverted to just hand drawing the elements of the card I am submitting into their challenge.

How I incorporated the image with the sketch

The sketch shows that the image needs to have a backdrop so I made the M&M in the recliner have a framed portrait of dogs playing poker behind it.

The sketch shows that the card base is to have lines of separation, so I decided that the wall would be paneling that I scored allowing slats with varying width sizes.

The sketch shows a sentiment on the front, but rather than words, I chose images to speak for themselves.  A drink, book and remote control in the other hand.
Also, there is ribbon in the sketch, but it didn't match this M&M's house, so I made a blue carpet with fraying around the edge and a white sewn stitch to symbolize the ribbon aspect.

Side View

Here is a picture of my inspiration that I tweaked.


Thanks for stopping by!






Give It a Go...

It's actually more difficult than I thought.  I'm referring to making masculine cards.  However, I gave it a go and here are a few of the cards that I am submitting over at HCTB, Here Come The Boys, blog where all the cards have a masculine theme.  The challenge was Anything Goes.

So, here goes...

1.  Use of natural "masculin-ish" stuff




2.  Theme is, many are alike, but one stands out
 (Father's Day idea?)



3.  My favorite and it speaks for itself





If you'd like to check out HCTB click the title below
Thank you so much for stopping in and I hope you're inspired to make some masculine cards! 

Have a great day :)