Hope House Home for Boys

The cards that I sell here in Chapala and Ajijic, Mexico benefit the dental program for the boys at Hope House in the nearby village of Ixlahuacan. There are close to 30 boys at the home and many of them come to the home having received no dental treatment. If you live here at Lakeside and would like to order a quality, hand crafted card for a special occasion and help me contribute to this worthy cause, please e-mail me at bettyinchapala@yahoo.com Card price is 50 pesos; the entire sales price is donated to Hope House.

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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Another Guy Birthday Card


My card started out as a challenge over at Flourishes for their new release week. However, I couldn't make it work with only two layers so I gave up and made it the way I wanted to make it! You know, you just can't please everybody all of the time!!

My tree is from Stampin' Up. I colored the stamp with markers and the impression came out perfectly. Love that you can see the tree trunk all the way up through the pine needles! Used a Cuttlebug folder (Checker Board) to emboss the background panel and the sentiment is from Layers of Love which was cut out with a Spellbinders die and sponged. Got a terrific embossed impression with this die too!

This will be another card for the church's birthday file!

Betty

7 comments:

Payne Holler Cards said...

love this clean crisp image!
sometimes we do stray from our intended challenge (-:

Myrna said...

Betty
This is perfect. Love the CB folder!!!
Myrna

Mary Anne / MA54K said...

I stray all the time, LOL! It is a great manly card either way, my friend!

The Other Patti Sue said...

Man card perfection! Lovely as a tree is one of my all time favs!

Patti P. said...

Great masculine card...love the sponging on your ribbon die, thanks for the inspiration.

Colleen said...

Betty,
This is a great man card. That tree is really a nice one.

Kym Weber said...

This is an awesome man birthday card! Fabulous job! Love the tree image!