'Masculine' Birthday card

Now why put masculine in single quotes?  Well, as you can see from the card below, it is not typically a masculine birthday card.  For this I blame the lovely ladies at Sunday Stamps (just kidding)!  Their challenge this week (http://sundaystamps.blogspot.ca/)  was to use basic gray, primrose petals and summer starfruit.  I used this challenge as inspiration for my brother in law's birthday card.  You might think that I'm being lazy in not making him a more masculine card, but I promise, I'm not!  Lee, my brother in law, is amazing.  He is a man's man, but at the same time, he has a very caring and kind side to him.  He has no problem wearing pink (and he looks awesome in it!).  So I'm not settling!!!  I only wish that instead of summer starfruit, I could have used tangerine tango as orange is his favourite colour!
Just as a little local (Ottawa) tip, we celebrated Lee's birthday at Fatboy's Southern Smokehouse (http://fatboys.ca/ottawa-ontario-122311/).  I've been there before, but I have to say, even as a vegetarian, the food is fantastic!
The recipe for the card is below.

*primrose petals card stock (126841)
*basic gray card stock (121044)
*summer starfruit card stock (126839)
*primrose petals 3/8" stitched satin ribbon
*1/8" mini brads (122941)
*argyle embossing folder (127750) - would you believe I was lucky enough to win this recently in a raffle!!!
*pennant parade stamp set (W122740 / C122742)
*petite pennants builder punch (122361)
*itty bitty shapes bunch pack (118309)
*bitty banners framelits (129267)
*itty bitty banners stamp set (W126255 / C126257)
*I used my VersaMark (102283) to stamp the pennant parade stamp


Take care
K8

Father's Day

Unfortunately I procrastinated to almost the last minute in making father's day cards.  This isn't by any means a reflection on my Dad!  I couldn't ask for a better one.  But I came up with the following.  I made two as a 'surrogate' Dad celebrated with us on Sunday and I wanted to make sure he knew how important he was to us as well!


My inspiration came from some of the recent challenges on mojomonday.blogspot.com.

The products I used are as follows:

*Baja breeze card stock

*Twitterpated DSP (125406)

*Basic grey card stock

*Basic gray satin ribbon (retired sadly)

*Silver jumbo brad (retired)

For this card, the products used were:

*Bashful blue card stock

*Chocolate chip card stock

*Wasabit green card stock

*Crumb cake card stock

*Retired DSP

*Bashful blue ribbon (retired)

*Subtles glimmer brad (retired)