Happy Birthday Geezer

Evening Folks.
Just a quick post tonight as getting ready to go out to a friends house for a catch up and a few drinks.
Today's card is for my brother-in-law's birthday in February.  I have done this card for my daughters to give him.

The image is a digi image from Stitchy Bear.  Thought it suited as BIL can be a bit of a grump at times.  Coloured in promarkers and matted and layered using one of my die cuts.  Can't tell you where the papers are from as they were in a freebie pack in a craft magazine.  The brown square in the corner is actually the inner tube of a kitchen roll.  I flattened it out, put some distress ink round the edges and then punched it with my new Martha Stewart punch.  The ribbon is also recycled and it came off a christmas present.  By the way, Geezer is a sort of nickname for him.  Hence the sentiment.
A top tip is to keep the inners of kitchen roll holders.  They come in handy for little embellishments such as this particularly if you don't have any kraft card handy. I have also punched flowers out of them before and used them on my cards.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Cards for Men - recycling (ribbon and inner from kitchen roll)
Dude Time Doodles - anything goes
Simply Create Too - #4 use layers
Pollycraft Monday - #121 use a punch (martha stewart and sentiment)
Top Tip Tuesday - #67 anything goes (top tip listed above)

Thanks for looking.
Check back tomorrow for an exciting news post from me (well, exciting to me anyway lol).
Mags
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