Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #188 Add a Sentiment

Crafty Cardmakers Challenge  #188. Pam is hosting our challenge, and the theme is Add A Sentiment.   As usual anything you care to enter is fine, a card, scrap layout, mixed media piece, some home decor, as long as it as a sentiment, the more prominent the better. 

Brother's Birthday Card - It's a Man Thing

My younger brother's birthday card. He is retired and lives beside the lake where we grew up  and  while he is certainly not lazy,  he has his moments of laying back and enjoying life :O).

Card Details:

Stamp: Just Inklined 'The  Good Life' digital stamp; background stamp  - Stampin Up's 'Hardwood'for background

Sentiment: Doodle Pantry (no longer available)

Colour: Prismacolor Markers

Ink: Stampin' Up's 'gumball green', 'creamy carmel'

Die Cuts: Stampin' Up's Banners , Spellbinders rectangles 'A2 Matting Basics A  

Other: hemp cord,  embossing powder

Technique: Heat embossing for the wooden background

Won a Top 3 pick at Inspiration Destination

Challenges

1. A Gem of a Challenge:# 193 Embossing Wet or Dry

2. Crafting With Friends: #42 Anything Goes

3. Inspiration Destination: #127 Anything Goes with optional twist Masculine

4. Colour Crazy Challenge WK17  Anything Goes

5. Crafting by Designs: May Anything Goes

6. The Crafty Addicts: #36 Anything Goes/Die Cuts