Tickled Pink - Masculine Pirate Card

Hi guys! Sorry for the delay in posting, it's been another busy day! I have a birthday card to share today, that I made for a male friend... 

I've had this tickled pink image stamped, and coloured in my stash, since I got my Spectrum Noir markers last year... Annoyingly, not long after this, I decided I didn't think I'd use him very much, so passed him on to someone else... Now, that I want to use him again, I don't have it... Anyway, he's been in my box of coloured images for well over a year! I decided to dig him out and make a card. The black and white spotted paper is from Kaisercraft, After 5 Collection (from way back), the moustache paper is from My Minds Eye, and the other two patterned papers you would have seen quite recently, on this card from last week. I used the two scrap pieces, mounted everything on black card stock, and added doodling around the edges. The pirate is popped up on dimensionals, and I added a spiral paper clip next to the sentiment... 

Here is the close up

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Tickled Pink Stamps for Shabby Chic Card

Hi! I had a quick play in the craft area before work this morning, and really went outside my comfort zone.... (okay, so it's not purple.... so not completely outside my comfort zone) come see -

I started out colouring my image, which is from Tickled Pink designs. I found her 'trench coat' really hard to colour, so decided to paper piece it instead. I have used my Stampin' Write Markers and some retired Stampin' Up! DSP for the coat. I cut her out and then built my card. The base is So Saffron, layered with Crumbcake which I ran through the Big Shot with a circles embossing folder. I sponged the edges, and then sewed around it (messily.) The centre panel is a piece of Pretty in Pink layered up with some patterned paper from Echo Park (I think) and some lace which I have stitched in place. I pierced two holes in the top of the centre panel and threaded some twine through and tied a bow. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up and is called Friendly Messages and has been stamped on to a Spellbinders Label. I added 4 little pearls to finish off this card. 

I am entering this into two challenges, the first is the Tuesday Morning Sketches sketch and next up is The Corrosive Challenge 'shabby chic' challenge