A Baseball Birthday

Two happy things happen this week.

Baseball season starts and it is my hubby's birthday.

He loves baseball and nearly had a chance to play

professional but I guess it was not meant to be.

So I made him a baseball birthday card.

When I saw this sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches

I knew it would be perfect for his birthday card.

I had found this Arizona Diamondbacks a year or so ago so

I just used it as the background.  The baseball was cut using

my Cricut Explore and the CTMH Artbooking cartridge.

The happy birthday was cut and written with the Explore also. 

The panel across the card I embossed using a Teresa Collins

embossing folder.  That is it, it was a pretty simple card.

Thanks for stopping by have a great weekend and a

very Happy Easter.

Who's on First......

Hi ya, hope everyone is having a great weekend so far.

Since we are in the middle of baseball season and hubby

and I love watching baseball I picked this

Rick St Dennis image Baseball Boy to color.

I colored him using my Inktense pencils and a little

Copics here and there.  I pop dotted him onto the baseball

Cuttlebug folder that I embossed on kraft paper

and then colored in some of the images.  Luckily had the baseball

paper in my stash.  

For the saying, I went with the old Abbott & Costello comedy 

routine from the 1930s.   

I used Design  Space and my Cricut Explore to write the

saying and then cut the label.

This little guy reminded me of the old time baseball players

so that's the first thing that came to mind.

Don't forget to check out the CraftingCircle blog as they are 

spotlighting artists all month long, plus there is a Crafty Awesomeness challenge.  Rick St Dennis was spotlighted on June 1st so yu can read about him. 

Rick St Dennis also has an Etsy store that has 

some darker type images on it.  

Will be entered in the following challenges.

Creative Corners - Just for men

Stamping with Dragon - One for the guys

PDE Linky Party - Anything goes

Kitty Bee Designs - Masculine cards

Crafting with Friends - Anything goes

Play Ball!.........

Hello everyone!  Are you ready for Spring to start, or in our house we look forward to the baseball season starting.

Here is Arizona it has been unusually hot this Winter it has been in the upper 70s or 80s.

My husband really likes baseball (I do too)and his birthday in April 2nd which sometimes falls on opening day.  So here is a card I made a while back to give him, but had never posted it.

I cut the background pattern, baseball and the chevrons using the CTMH Artbooking cartridge.  The happy birthday is stamped using a Sweet & Sassy stamp.

Then I found another baseball card idea on Pinterest that I liked so I started to make that for him but it is not done yet so I will share that in another post.

This week at Sentimental Sundays the challenge is to make a male/boy card so i will be linking this card to that challenge.