Thursday, 15 September 2016

monkey around ...it's your birthday

One of my nephews has a birthday coming up, I don't see him very often as they live quite away away, so don't really know him that well. I know hes not into sport and is more studious than his brother but I am sure he can be a bit of a monkey at times.


I used this fun jungle stamp from High Hopes and coloured with promarkers. I created the sky using a scrap piece of card cut into a rough cloud shape, a cotton wool ball and some chalk.


I used these cute monkey dies from poppy stamps and cut them out in white card and again coloured with promarkers before letting them swing through the jungle trees. 

I used this happy birthday die from poppystamps and cut it out in black glossy card and overlaid it onto my jungle scene. I added a couple more monkeys.


I finished the card by edging the mat with a blue promarker before laying on a white base card. 

I hope he sees it as a fun card and not too babyish , as he is at the cusp of being a teenager and its an awkward age for boys cards as they are neither child or teen.


I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-

Stamping sensations - one for the boys

cards in envy - for the kids

Penny's - anything goes


Lemon shortbread - anything goes

Everybody art - anything goes

cards und more - no designer paper

OLLCB - anything goes

The cutie pie challenge - Happy birthday


12 comments:

brenda said...

A super creation for our One for the Boys theme Julye, many thanks for sharing your creativity with us at Stamping Sensations challenge.

B x

pinky said...

What a fun card, bet it was fun to make too. Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations.
Pinky

Inkyfingers said...

What a happy and fun card and I love your cheeky monkeys playing round the trees.
Thanks for sharing with us at Addicted to Stamps and More and I hope you will join us again soon.
Hugs
Carol x

Marilyn's Cricut Crafts said...

What a darling birthday card for any child! Love the little monkey - adorable! Thank you for joining us at Cards in Envy! ~ Marilyn

Cara said...

This is such a fun card, I bet he loved it. Thanks for joining us this week at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge. Cara DT x

Sandy Trefger said...

Fun card! Any kid would love it! Super cute monkeys! Thanks for sharing with us at Cards in Envy.

Jane Willis said...

That is such fun! I bet your nephew is thrilled with it. Thank you for sharing at OLLCB
Jane

Nandini said...

Wow! What a wonderful card for a boy! Love the cute little scene you have created. Thank you for joining us at ATSM Challenges. All the very best. Nandini DT

Wendy said...

Fabulous card..Thank you for coming to the cuties 5th birthday party
Wendy X

Julie said...

Lovely fun card. Thanks for joining us at the Cutie Pie 5th Birthday.

Sally H said...

A fabulous card! Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations for our 'One for the Boys' challenge and Good Luck!

Shona Hamill said...

Fantastic card. Thank you for sharing with the Cutie Pies for our Birthday challenge. Shona xx