Wednesday 18 July 2012

Goal


This is a card I've made for the young lad next door.  Euan is in to all kinds of sports and I wanted to use one of them for his card theme. On Paul's blog I saw a round easel card and this gave me the inspiration to go with a football theme and the round shape of the card would represent a ball.  

The main image and two matching backing papers are printed from the Forever Friends Collector's Edition CD and the black and navy backing card and paper were from W Enterprises.  The messages were created on the computer and nestabilites and grand nestabilities were used to cut the base card, image, messages and backing layers.  Having enjoyed colouring digital and stamped images recently my CD collection has been neglected.  I'd forgotten how many lovely images were on this one.

The footballs and football boots embellishments were made using Quickutz dies with thread tied in bows for the laces.  The bows were made using Stampin' up Night of Navy grosgrain ribbon and the faux ric rac ribbon was made using the Stampin' up scallop edge punch and navy paper.  A football brad was used to loop the boots on to.


I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges
Digital Tuesday Challenge 169 - All Tied Up
Top Tip Tuesday Challenge 81 - All About Circles  Top Tip - use a scalloped edge punch to create faux ric rac ribbon by punching along one side of a strip of paper and then aligning the punch to create the ric rac wave before punching along the other side of the strip.
Dream Valley Challenges 36 - Anything But Square
Speedy fox and Friends Challenge116 - Masculine
Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Let's Hear It for the Boys 
Nutcrafters Challenge - One for the Boys
Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Thanks for reading
Liz xx

29 comments:

  1. Gorgeous card, such a great image and I love the design

    Sue

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  2. Hi Liz, I love FF (see my latest post) so I love this card!! Great design, I really must try the circle shaped cards.
    Laura xx

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  3. A great card - I'm sure Euan will love it.
    Kath x

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  4. Great easel card. Love the use of a circle for the design. Thanks for joining us at Speedy Fox & Friends.

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  5. Brilliant easel design, fab image and colours too.
    Lorraine x

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  6. Fabulous card and love the colour and shape! and love your Top Tip too! I saw this somewhere else recently but can not find it now! doh! thehehehe

    Thanks for playing along at Top Tip Tuesday this time for our all about circles challenge, hugs Samantha :0)

    PS don't forget you can enter 3 projects and or 3 Tips too! xx

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  7. Hi Liz just perfect for a football mad lad! Great idea to do a circular card to represent the football and I love the footballs inside!! xx

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  8. I love this card. The backing papers are so subtle that they are perfect as they don't distract from the image at all.
    TFS
    Paul

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  9. stunning card liz.i love the ff bear and great circular shape ;D

    xx coops xx

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  10. WOW! This is fabulous! Great job! Thanks so much for joining us at The Sisterhood ‘LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS’ challenge and please come back again soon!
    Darlene
    one of the 'Sistahs'
    DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS

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  11. Super easel card, great design. Thanks for joining us at Nutcrafters and good luck. Debs xx

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  12. So sweet. Thanks for joining us at Dream Valley. xx

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  13. What a fab card - great use of the circle to represent the football. And that Top Tip - WOW, awesome ric-rac, what an amazing idea - thanks so much for sharing with us over at Top Tip Tuesday :)

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  14. Great card - love those backing papers as they are so subtle. Great tip about the ric rac punching too.

    Annette - Netty's Cards
    Proud to design for Top Tip Tuesday.
    xx

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  15. Gorgeous card...
    Thanks for joining us at Nutcrafters & good luck!!
    hugs and xxx
    Gemma

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  16. Oh I do love this card - thanks for joining us at Nutcrafters

    Sylvia xx

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  17. Your card is Beautiful Liz.. I saw this on MIM..Loz

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  18. Cute little card with the soccer bear. Saw it on MIM and had to stop by to check out the shape of your card. NancyD

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  19. I love love love circle cards! This is outstanding...so pretty and sweet! Thank you so much for joining us at MIM this week! Don't forget to leave a comment for another entry and mention you saw them on MIM for a chance at our second prize! Good luck!
    Rene :D

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  20. Gorgeous card Liz. I saw this on MIM..Faye

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  21. What a fabulous card, I'm sure it will be treasured. Spotted your card at MIM.

    Jo x

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  22. Hope to make something like this one day! This is so pretty. I saw it on Make It Monday.

    My number is #52

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  23. Fabulous card...sweet image and love the design. Popped in from MIM. pat k.x

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  24. Oh wow - what a great idea - I love the round easel - and your faux rick rack is impeccable. Thanks for playing along with The Sisterhood of Crafters for our Let's Hear It For The Boys Challenge!

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  25. I love this. Such a sweet image and fabulous layout. Thanks for sharing this at MIM.

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  26. Visiting from MIM, and I love the different card! I can't understand exactly how you did it, but it is adorable

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  27. Gorgeous and such a fantastic idea, I saw this on MIM and had to take a closer look. Its fantastic. Hugs Jo

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  28. Your card is awesome...I saw it on MIM & came by for a better look! I am #245

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  29. Gorgeous card, such attention to detail, and a fabulous tip to make the ribbon, I'm going to give that a try.

    Jo x

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