Dude Time Doodles Piles It On!

This week's challenge at Pile It On is sponsored by Dude Time Doodles, so we have the theme "Manly Cards," whatever that means to you! It can be for a man or boy, or something that a man or boy would give. Hope you'll join us.

I used the Ernie Carpenter set from Dude Time Doodles/Bonibleaux Designs.

I heat-embossed the Builder3 sentiment onto blue metallic paper. I had lots of fun with Ernie: I colored him Copics, and then used Flowersoft on his hammer & cuffs, and flocking on his hat and hair (love the Sparkly Black flocking from Our Craft Lounge!)

I cut strips of Echo Park DP for the background, and covered the edges with dark blue-and-white baker's twine. I strung up the "loose wires" (actually silver elastic) with my favorite brads.

For the inside backing paper, I used a piece of silver-embossed white, handmade paper I found in my stash. I colored this Carpenter Box digi from Tiddly Inks, added silver FlowerSoft on the pliers, and stamped the "Happy Birthday" Hero Arts sentiment & heat-embossed it in silver.

Challenges:

Pile It On - Manly Cards

Skipping Stones Designs - Sketch Challenge

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - Brads (or eyelets)

Crafty Creations - Heat Embossing

Little Red Wagon - Felt or flocking

Fussy and Fancy - Happy Birthday (or use animal print)

Kathy’s Lily Pad Palette - Color Combo (with Our Craft Lounge)

Our Craft Lounge - Color Combo + photo inspiration (with Lily Pad)