Sharing a quick and easy birthday card today, one based on the June card sketch from Stick It Down.
I pulled out my 'go-to' paper collection for male cards - Mr Mister by Papermania - picked two coordinating papers for the half-and-half background and ran a gold peel-off sticker along the join. I then die-cut a stitched circle from cardstock, backed it with a gadget patterned paper, and layered my sentiment over it.
I use this month's card sketch from Stick It Down to make a card for my dad, choosing it as the three squares on the sketch just shouted to me to add the letters D-A-D.
I used a 5x7 card blank, covered it with a leaf print paper and matched the leaf colour with a scrap of cardstock for the strip across the card. I chose a complementary blue paper for the squares and topped them with corrugated kraft letter stickers. Finally I copied the star from the sketch with one which I die-cut from the same cardstock as the horizontal strip.
We have two February family birthdays, my mum and my nephew, and I decided to use the sketch with Papermania's Mr Mister papers for my nephew's card.
I kept the background subtle and added brighter banners to the centre of my card, shortening the middle stripe to turn that into a banner piece. I substituted the heart of the sketch for a punched circle and popped that and the sentiment up on foam squares.
I started from a cream base card and pencilled a 3" circle on the front. I daubed green ink around that circle and then made my wreath with sprigs die-cut from an old Basic Grey paper which I chose for its subtle variation in greens. I then added my butterfly and some pink punched flowers to the wreath, finishing with tiny gems as my flower centres and extras scattered around the wreath.
The December sketch is one for eight square photos, but I adapted it for three landscape 4x6 prints with seven 3x3 squares, a set that were already printed and waiting in my 'to scrap' pile. These were from April last year, when we spent a week in Cumbria and did a circular walk around Buttermere on Easter Sunday. 
I have another 2019 page for you today, one that was loosely inspired by the June sketch at Stick It Down.
My page design is loosely based on an old sketch from Stick It Down which I have used before. I've few new sheets or large scraps of paper left in my album kit now so this was a good design for stretching lots of strips across the two pages. I just wish I'd swapped them round so the the black and white paper was behind the photos with the coral ones at the top and bottom as the page is rather plain as they are. I'm pondering adding washi to the top and bottom to add some more colour.
