One Card – 2 Challenges!

Hello stamping friends!  I hope you’re having a good week so far; we’re almost at the 1/2 way point 🙂

Today I have a card to share with you that’s doing double duty; it’s for the Watercooler Challenge WCC18 – Sketch Challenge, and the Stampin’ Up! Only SUO117 – Cards for Teenagers challenge.

I know the challenge of making cards for teenagers – and boys, too!  My youngest just turned 17, and my eldest just turned 20 – now he’s out of his teens!  (I doubt that will make it less difficult to create a card for him, though!)

So, I decided to take the Watercooler Sketch, and use it for both challenges.  Pretty smart of me, right? LOL

Here’s the sketch from the Watercooler page:

Now, keeping in mind that the SUO challenge is a card for teens….this is what I came up with:

I think this card would be suitable for either a boy, or a girl!  With the bright, cheery colours, I think even the boys would overlook the use of Melon Mambo ink!

I started with a card base of Tempting Turquoise card stock, and added a center panel of Sweet Taffy Designer Series Paper.  Just adding the DSP opened up a whole world of colour for this card!  Isn’t it gorgeous?!

Using the 2 1/2″ Circle Punch, I created a circle of Melon Mambo card stock, and then added a 2″ circle of Whisper White using the 2″ Circle Punch.  The stamp set I used is called Big Day Stamp Set – and you can only get if for FREE from the Sale-a-bration brochure!  I stamped the cake image onto the white using Memento Black ink, and coloured it with Blender  Pens and Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight inks.  I added a bit of shading to the ‘icing’ using my Crushed Curry marker.  The candle was stamped by inking the stamp using the Tempting Turquoise & Daffodil Delight markers.

I cut the 2 banner shapes from Melon Mambo and Daffodil Delight card stock, and stamped the sentiments in Versamark & Memento Black ink, and heat embossed them using Clear embossing powder & the heat tool.  The sentiments are from the Something to Say stamp set.

A scattering of sequins later (it’s a birthday party, right?!), and my card was done!

I hope you’ll check out the terrific projects put together by the design teams at the Watercooler Challenge, and the Stampin’ Up! Only Challenge pages – they really are inspiring!  I sure appreciate all the work they do to pull these designs together for us.

Thanks for visiting my blog, and if you have time to leave a comment, I’d sure appreciate it!  It always makes my day to have comments to read 🙂

Until next time – happy stamping!