Gus Is Over The Hill!

Happy Thursday, everyone!

Are you ready for Oldie But Goodie Thursday, at Catch The Bug?! The DT has some fabulous creations to show you today, so be sure to head over and check them out!

For my card, today, I brought Gus out to play! This image is Gus Birthday - Over The Hill, by Bugaboo Stamps. I really had fun with this one, and Gus is one of my favorite fellas! He's colored with Promarkers. My card layout follows the Sketch at Sketches By Carly. This was my first time making a card with a pocket on it, and I really like how it turned out. I bought these new little kraft bags/pockets with white cardstock inserts, at Hobby Lobby, and used one on the card. All papers are from my stash. The brown card base is embossed with the Cuttlebug swiss dots folder. I also embossed the green panel with circles, with another Cuttlebug folder. I found these cute birthday buttons in my button stash and thought they'd make fun embellishments. I cut the shanks off to make them lay flat. The papers and ribbon are all from my stash. The green "Birthday" button is attached to the pocket/bag insert with foam mounting tape, so that the button can be used to slide the insert out, for a handwritten message.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:


Anything Goes at Stamp and Create
Anything Goes at Bizzy Becs
Challenge #72 Something Forgotten (Shaped Buttons-Birthday and present) at Truly Scrumptious
Anything Goes at The Crafty Purple Frog
Sketch #48 at Sketches By Carly
Challenge #71 Ribbon and Buttons at Penny's Paper-Crafty
Challenge #57 What's New Pussycat (Ribbon) at Crafty Ann's
Challenge #33 At The Movie (Grumpy Old Men) at Fairy Tale Challenge
Challenge #78 Circles (Green embosed panel, swiss dots embossing on card base) at Sew Many Cards Challenges
Challenge #88 "Ring" In The New Year (embossed circles on green panel) at Raise The Bar
Challenge #77 New Things (Ribbon) at My Sheri Crafts
Challenge #75 Embossing (Card base with swiss dots, green panel with circles) at 2 Sisters
Challenge #97 Round and Round (Embossed Circles on green panel) at One Stitch At A Time
Challenge #154 Something for The Boys at The Crafty Pad
Challenge #101 Green, Beige and Cream at Sketchy Colors
Challenge #58 Celebratory (Birthday) at Bee Crafty
Birthdays at The Stamping Boutique
For The Men at Totally Stampalicious
Challenge #94 Color Bingo (Green, Blue and Brown) at Craft Your Passion
Challenge #2 Anything Goes at Stamping With The Dragon
Challenge #124 Warm Colors at Pollycraft
Inspired By A Song Title (Happy Birthday) at Crafty Boots
Non Traditional Colors at Paper And Such Online
Challenge #47 Masculine Birthday at Celebrate The Occasion
Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp
Challenge #16 Polka Dots (Polka Dots on Embossed green panel) at Little Darlings
Challenge #24 Anything Goes at Digi Doodle Shop's Best