70th BIRTHDAY CARD FOR CATHERINE'S DAD

Good morning fellow blogsters and followers and an especially warm welcome to my new follower - Jackie, I do hope you enjoy my wafflings and warped sense of humour!!!  

Thanks to all of you who left comments on my last card, the one with the teddy dragging his diddy Christmas tree behind him.  This was my choice of theme for the CCC, a little club some of us are in, where we make our Christmas cards every two weeks and (very hopefully) we don't have so much panic at the end of the year.   My theme wasn't everyone's cup of tea but I ended up really liking my card and it's another one ready for Christmas.  Yaaaaay!!

Well 'nuff waffling about that, Catherine, my next door neighbour, asked me if I could make a card for her dad's 70th birthday.   She mentioned that he really likes line-dancing but I didn't have any l-d digis so asked my teamies on the OSAAT DT if they knew of any - there were a couple of sites who did this sort of image and I bought these two line-dancers from Karen's Doodles.   After I had coloured them I had a mojo meltdown and orf she went on her bloomin' hols .......... AGAIN!   I eventually got really fed up with myself and found some papers from Tim Holtz in my cupboard - perfect for what I wanted.  I also found a digi on t'internet from Colouring Pages for Kids (!) showing a pair of fancy boots and a cowboy hat - yeeehaaa!   After all that, this is what I came up with and I am pleased to say that Catherine and her family loved it, as did her dad!  Result!

 This is only just a slightly sideways view but it does show the little 'boot' charm that I put on there.    It's not just the ladeees who can have charms, gentlechaps can have them too!

Just a quick shot of the box I made to go with the card.  

Ingredients

Line Dancer Guy and Gal - Karen's Doodles
Boots with hat digi - Colouring Pages for Kids
8" x 8" Kraft Card blank - Papermania at Docrafts
Ideology Retro Grunge Paper Pad 12 x 12 - Tim Holtz
Red and Beige card - Core'dinations
A2 Fancy Postage Edge die - Spellbinders Dies
Virtuoso Music die - Memory Box Dies
Alphabet die - Tattered Lace Dies
Stitched Circle Stax - Lil'Inkers Dies
Stitched Star Stax - Lil'Inkers Dies
No 3 Star - Nellie Snellen Dies
Flexmarkers and Promarkers
Twine, recycled piece of ribbed cardboard, boot charm - Stash

I do hope you like this one and are able to leave a comment, only if you have time of course, thank you for visiting me anyway!  I shall be off now 'cos we have had a deluge of rain and a lumping great thunderstorm and my head is really banging away like a good 'un!   Thunderstorms often do this to me so I will take to me bed very shortly and hope I will feel better in the morning - I have scheduled this post so me fingers are crossed!

Big hugs to you all and please take care of yourselves.

Sue xxx

I would like to enter my card into the following 10 challenges -

Card Mania Challenge No 51 - http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/cmc51-how-charming-add-charm.html

Crafters Cafe Challenge No 72 - http://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/challenge-72-birthday.html

Crafty Girls Challenge No 22 - http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/challenge-22.html

Digistamps 4 Joy Challenge No 96 - http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/challenge-96-for-boys.html

Emerald Faeries Challenge No 57 - http://emeraldfaeries.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/challenge-57-hip-hip-hooray-birthday.html

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/strings-and-things-ribbon-thread-string.html

Milk Coffee Challenge - http://milkcoffeechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/birthdays-challenge.html

Quick Quotes Challenge No 41 - http://www.blogquickquotes.com/2014/07/friday-challenge-41.html

Savvy Handmade Cards Challenge - http://savvyhandmadecards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/reach-for-stars-challenge.html

Seize the Birthday Challenge - http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.ca/2014/07/stringing-along-more-birthday-wishes.html