Grumpy's Birthday - C.R.A.F.T. Challenge 25

It's my F-I-L's birthday tomorrow and I feel obliged to make him a card, even though their family don't really seem to like hand-made goodies. The C.R.A.F.T. Challenge for this week is a recipe and all submitted cards need to include 1xtag, 1xsentiment, 1xribbon. My tag is more of a ticket, but hey-ho and all of that!

Stamped Image: Like it or Not!!! by Penny Black, coloured with ProMarkers.

Sentiment: Happy Birthday Ticket from Inkadinkado.

Papers: Hopscotch Boy by K&Co.

Ribbon: Rainbow by DCWV.

Now, I'm off to deal with broken glass! My darling (?) kitten has just spotted a shadow on the ceiling and sprung up onto the shelving unit, knocking my glass storage jars flying. C'est la vie, if it's not the kids it's the cat! :)

My First Blog Challenge......

Well, I thought, I've been here nearly two weeks and haven't entered a blog-based challenge yet. Been quite scared and intimidated to be perfectly honest, as there are some incredible crafters out there. *sighs heavily*

However, I'm never going to learn if I don't try. So here goes....

I've chosen The Sugar Bowl Challenge 19 to start off with, as I saw Marlene's sketch on someone's blog this morning and thought it looked interesting.

The image is Manga Girl #1 by Sugar Nellie coloured with Promarkers, papers are Earth Love by Cosmo Cricket, flowers are from the new E-line at Prima (cheap as chips!) and the sentiment is by Hero Arts.

The brief was to follow the sketch and include pink and brown. Even though it doesn't really look it, thanks to my marvellously pitiful photography skills, the almost orangey colour is actually Coral Pink....honest!

Hope it's okay, looks a little busy to me (almost in a 70's kind of way) but what the hey! Thanks for looking. :)

P.S. - Ooh, just realised the C.R.A.F.T. Challenge this week is Pink and Brown too - yaay, two challenges in one go!!! :D