Viva La Verve - July

Hi folks,

well, I found my way back into the craft room to finish up a set of four masculine birthday cards for the July Viva La Verve Challenges. Rather than publish them all separately, I've decided to put them all into one post. So here you go!

For the week 1 sketch:

For the week 2 sketch:

For the week 3 sketch:

And finally, week 4:

card details:

• papers: Graphic 45 "A Proper Gentleman"
• stamps: Verve "Big Wish", "Birthday Bash", "Wordy Birds"

challenges for these cards:

• Verve July Diva Dare: Sentimental About Paper: these papers from Graphic 45 are among my faves. If you are a frequent visitor you know I have used them on lots of my masculine cards this year. And paired up with the sentiments from Verve, they may great, quick cards with a classic feel.
• Sentimental Sundays #65: Focus on the Sentiment
• Magical Monday: Let's Layer (for card #3 there's a whopping 9 layers of paper - not counting the card base!)
• Tuesday Throwdown #59: To create a matching set (I think these four masculine birthday cards count as a matching set don't you?)
• Papercraft Star: Anything Goes
• Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge: No Markers. In fact, there was no colouring at all on these cards. Just stamped sentiments!

Thanks for stopping by folks! Hope you are all having a lovely day!