Tuesday 7 September 2010

All Shook Up




Challenges:
Polka Doodle – shaped card

Creative Inspirations (Sat. Challenge) – shaped card

Secret Crafter – clean and simple

Crafty Cardmaker – clean and simple

Justinklined – use one of their digis

Charisma – song (All Shook Up – Elvis (had to be! LOL)

Crafts and Me – gems and sparkle

Shabby Tearoom – tag (on inside of card)

For today’s card, made especially for my brother-in-law’s birthday (same day as my son’s), I have made a shaped card - a speech bubble in gorgeous pearlescent cardstock.

The image is called ‘Throwback Fred’ from Justinklined, and I thought this Elvis imitator would be perfect for a male’s birthday card - and to that end at least, I must be onto a winner, as even my husband likes it….and he doesn’t usually say much about my cards!!! Coloured with Promarkers the image is simply matted onto embossed gold mirri and stripey paper rectangles whose corners I rounded to match those of the speech bubble. His outfit needed the necessary bling with added tiny gems and a mirri medallion completed his ensemble. I then made myself suitably shaped insert for inside, adding a similar but smaller embossed mirri rectangle with a tag emblazoned across the top, leaving room for the ‘To’ and ‘From’ (as if they would never have guessed anyway!?!?!) on the other side.

Kept it short and sweet today, but hope you like it! Sorry the photos are not up to much today, but the clouds are rolling in. :(

Tine :)

22 comments:

  1. Fabulous card Tine, thank you for entering our challenge for a Guest Designer.

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  2. This just makes me chuckle! What a fun card. Love the speech bubble shape and of course that silly image. The touches of sparkle are just perfect for this. thanks for sharing with us at TSTR.

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  3. Great card! So clever to make it into a "bubble". Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR! :)

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  4. I think it great, Tine! It's cheeky and fun and wonderfully colored. I'm sure he'll LOVE it!

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  5. You did a fabulous job with this!! Love it!

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  6. Hello, Tine
    Lovely card, fantastic layout and choice of colours great image, thanks for joining us at the Secret Crafters: Clean and Simple challenge, this week, Good luck, Bridget x.

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  7. Thanks for joining Polkadoodles challenge with this great entry, good luck.
    Happy crafting
    Tracy x

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  8. What a neat card! I love the gold embossed paper! Thanks for joining us at Polkadoodles and TSTR!

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  9. brilliant card thanks for joining in the challenge this month

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  10. Great fun! Thanks for joining in with the Creative Inspirations challenge this week.
    Jenni x

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  11. Oh wow how fab is this I love a brilliant shape and so love that fun image thank you for joining us at Creative Impressions

    Hugs
    Lorraine x

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  12. Fab card - love that image ! LOL!
    Thank you for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers this week!
    Hugs
    Eiglas
    x

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  13. A great fun card, just love it, thank you for joining us this week at Creative Inspirations. Hugs Christine x

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  14. Fab card - love the shape!
    Thanks for joining us at the SCSC!
    Helen x

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  15. Hehehehe! Fantastic! Thanks for entering the Polkadoodle Challenge - hope you can join us again next week!

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  16. Fab shaped card, so fun - thanks for playing along at Polkadoodles! Cheers Claire x

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  17. OMG this is just fab!
    Gotta check out these images!
    Perfect for our clean and Simples Challenge!
    Thanks for playing along at Crafty Cardmakers
    Hugs Melly xxx

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  18. LOVE this! How fab! Great shaped card too. Thanks for sharing your project with us over at Polka Doodles.

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  19. Just fabulous shaped card.
    Thanks for joining in with this week's Polka Doodles challenge.
    x

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  20. great, fun card - I love the image. Thanks for joining in the polkadoodle challenge

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  21. Hi! what funny cartoon . i like the inside of the card .
    Plastic Card
    Plastic business cards

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