my favourite gnomie

Hello my crafty friends, today i'm bringing you a card i've made for my dads birthday. i've played along with the inspired by challenge the inspiration challenge this week is Gnomes and /or follow the sketch, I've used my favourite things stamp set called happy birthday to my gnomie, as you can see I've used gnomes and followed the sketch 

I'm also entering my card in to the male room challenge which is clean and simple 

here is my card .. I hope you like it 

fast foodies

Another day another challenge, I found a wonderful blog that lists loads of challenge blogs, I feel this could be my new best friend and certainly deserves a shout out so thanks to all the people at paper playful that work so hard bringing card challenges all in one place 

Now back to my card I have made this card using again the sketch from Atlantic hearts sketch challenge

I would  like to enter my card into the the male room challenge which is make a clean and simple card for a male,and critter crazy challenge which is anything goes with a critter, as it's my sons birthday next month I thought I would play along so here is my take on those challenges 

Now I'm not sure if it completely follows the clean and simple rules due to the patterned paper but thought I would give it a go 

stamp set is called fast foodie from clearly besotted 

I coloured the images with my copics

and patterned paper is from My favorite Things