My Heart Belongs to Daddy Blog Hop

Welcome to the My Heart Belongs to Daddy Blog Hop!  Hope everyone is having a great weekend so far!  We are looking forward to some warmer weather here in Chicago mixed with a little rain but I don't think anyone cares about the rain as long as it's WARM!  Anyway, onto the hop.  Hopefully you came here from Pam's blog over at Scrapbook Flair.  If not and you want to start at the beginning, stop at Jen's blog, Creative Army Wife.  For this hop we were tasked with creating something "manly", LOL!  At first I thought I would do a card but I had a really cute photo from my husband's birthday last weekend that I wanted to scrap so I choose to do a layout instead.  Sometimes we get scared doing manly or boyish layouts as we aren't sure what colors to use but I find it best to use primary colors are they are so bright and really work well with either gender.  
If you have been reading my blog for a while then you know I LOVE to use sketches with my layouts and cards and I chose to use the sketch from this weeks Scrapbook Challenges, sketch 248.  Here is what I came up with.

I absolutely LOVE how this one came out.  I used only my stamps on this one, no cricut at all!  The letters were cut out after I stamped them with my Stampin UP! set, Schoolbook Serif Alphabet.  The cupcakes are from a retired Stampin UP! set called Big Bold Birthday, along with the "make a wish" saying, and the oh so cute Banner Stamps are from Pink Persimmon, a stamp company I just happened to find last weekend while I was searching online for some banner stamps.  The background paper is Stampin UP! Sahara Sand, the other solid colors are also Stampin UP!, Pear Pizzazz, Pacific Point, Real Red, Bashful Blue and Whisper White, the patterned paper is from the DCWV Celebrations stack.  I thought it looked very manly:-).  Of course, I also added twine from the Twinery in Honeydew. All the ink colors are also Stampin UP! in the same colors as the paper.


Here is the sketch that the layout is based on:

If you are a scrapper, I recommend checking out their weekly sketch challenges.


Now onto some blog candy, Pink Persimmon has graciously donated these oh so cute banner stamps for my giveaway today!

I just love these stamps and banners are all the rage now in scrapbooking.  Just leave me a comment below and I would love if you became a follower if you aren't already.  I will accept entries until Monday night and draw a winner Tuesday morning.  

Onto your next stop, Jill over at the Scrapoholic.  I can't wait to see what she has made for the hop!

Here's a list of the participants in case you get lost along the way.

Jen ~ http://creativearmywife.blogspot.com/

Paula ~ http://www.owlbescrappin.com/

Haidee ~ http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/

Tanya ~ www.ScrappyScavenger.blogspot.com

Erin ~ http://www.spantastikreations.blogspot.com/

Pam ~ http://pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com/

Jessica ~ http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/---You are here:-)

Karel ~ http://www.kareljcreations.com/

Liz ~ www.tryin2craft.blogspot.com

Shannon ~ www.purplellionpaper.com/blog

Leslie ~ http://leslierahye.blogspot.com/

alina ~ http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/

faith ~ http://faithfulecreations.wordpress.com/

jessica ~ http://thatzuneek.blogspot.com/

jill ~ http://thescrapoholic.blogspot.com/

martha ~ http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/

debbie ~ http://scrapbydebbie.blogspot.com/

becky ~ https://beckscricards.blogspot.com/

Quick Birthday Card

Happy Friday everyone!  Well tomorrow is my husbands birthday so I decided to make a quick card for him this afternoon.  I find guys cards so challenging and I wanted to make this simple and not girly at all.  I hope I achieved that!  Since I do well with sketches, I decided to take a look at this weeks sketch over at Peachy Keen Stamps.   The sketch worked perfectly for what I needed.
Here is my card:

 I used a retired Stampin UP! set for this image called Big Bold Birthday and the dots are from the Stampin Daisies set, Just the Basics.  The paper is also Stampin UP! Marina Mist, Whisper White, and the DSP Celebrations.   The ink is Stampin UP! Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip, and Cherry Cobbler.

I used my twine again from the Twinery called Honeydew.

Based off this sketch: