Not a Square!

As is usual with my son, he informed me yesterday that it's the 13th birthday of one of his friends today.  I suppose I should be grateful he at least told me the day before - he sometimes tells me about birthdays on the day itself!  As the two of them seem to lapse into game-speak the minute they meet, the theme for this card was an easy choice and an ideal opportunity to play with a recent Ebay purchase of some Papertrey Ink games stamps. I framed the greeting with a stamp by American Crafts.

I decided to play along with a couple of challenges again this week, I find this really helps my card designs come together a lot more quickly. The latest challenge at Less is More is a one layer card which mustn't be a square or rectangle.  As I don't have a cutting machine or any dies to make a card blank I had to keep it simple so I stuck with a hexagon as that was easy to achieve with an ordinary guillotine!  I also combined it with the sketch at Sketch Saturday & have discovered another challenge at Keep It Simple that I can enter it into as well.

I don't normally decorate the card inserts but I decided to use one of the individual stamps to add a little bit of detail for once.

Cardstock: Xerox Colotech Plus 300gsm

Stamps: Papertrey Ink Boy Basics Game On #2357, American Crafts Thanks #10066223

Inks: Memento - Nautical Blue, Morocco

Challenges: Less is More #128, Sketch Saturday, Keep It Simple!