It’s Funny and/or a Pun at Sparkles Monthly Challenge!

Hello friends!  Happy weekend!  Wow, it’s been very warm outside and I’ve been spending my time indoors.  I hope to be sharing some more posts with lots of things very soon, so stay tuned in!  Today starts another challenge over at the Sparkles Monthly Challenge blog!

This time was my turn to choose a theme and I thought with Father’s Day, masculine cards are a good way to use those “FUNNNY and/or a PUN” on our cards!  To make someone laugh or at least smile, is the main reason why I love to make cards!  If you feel like having a chuckle with your cards, make one and enter this month!  I can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Here’s my card for the challenge:

Nothing better than a hot French fry, but a French fry with a smile and bow tie is too fun!😆  (This is an American term for this food, but I know they’re called “chips” in Britain…either way, delicious and fun!)

For this challenge, I knew I wanted to pull out a large card kit I had gotten back in 2018 from Simon Says Stamp partnered with Doodlebug to create the I Chews You kit.  (Most of the items are not available any more other than the stamp set that I’ve linked.)  I fell in love with all of the cute images and puns from the Doodlebug So Pun Friends collection!  In this card kit, there was a die that cut out the box and fries.  The sentiments came from some “Chit-Chat Clippings“.

I first took a piece of white cardstock for the front panel and cut it with a wonky stitched rectangle die and placed it over a side folded A2 red card base.  I then took a wonky stitched circle die and cut a circle from the Doodlebug So Much Pun paper pad.  I placed it in the lower right and cut off part of the edge of the circle sticking out past the white panel.

I took the die cut fry box and cut it out in red and white.  I used the white strip to make the band at the top of the box.  I cut out the fries and sponged around the edges and arranged them behind the box and attached it to the circle panel.

The sentiment bubble was inked around the edges and placed in the top left above the fries.  I added a black layer behind the box sentiment strip and cut off the edge sticking out.  Lastly, I thought it would be fun to add a smile face to the fry and then I stamped, colored and die cut a bow tie from my stash to add on the one fry.  I finished it with some Doodlebug Heart Sprinkles.

I really had a great time putting this one together and I hope you’ve enjoyed it too!  Hoping to pull out this card kit again and make several cards with it as there is still so many things in this kit that I never got a chance to play with!  (I have so many things I need to do this with!)😉

Please be sure to check out the challenge blog to see the inspiration from the team and I hope you will take some time to have fun and play along with us!

Enjoy your weekend and thanks for stopping by!  I’ll catch you soon!

Challenges:

1. Crafts Galore Encore – #124 Anything Goes
2. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2423 Anything Goes
3. As You Like It – With or Without Words and Why? (I feel like this is the main reason to send a card to someone that includes a sentiment.  I especially like the fun and/or pun for sending smiles.)
4. Tic Tac Toe – TTTC249 (I used first row down:  layers, die cut, pattern paper)
5. Penny’s Paper-Crafty – #573 Anything Goes Using Paper
6. Aloha Friday – #11 Masculine
7. Creative Moments – #259 optional twist: Men and Boys