Birthday Party Invites

My youngest will be 10 next month and has been nagging me for ages to make the birthday party invitations.  So here's the prototype - for which I used the colours of this week's Dynamic Duos challenge and had a second go at the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  This also meets the criteria for this week's Stampin' Royalty challenge, which is to go masculine.

For the card, I embossed the guitarist in white EP on Whisper White cardstock.  I then cut him out with an oval nestie and while the die cut was still in the nestie, I sponged some Island Indigo ink.  BTW, this took me four attempts because the nestie kept moving.  I think because my cutting pad on my Big Shot is so warped, it's actually warped the nestie, so it wouldn't sit nicely on the cardstock.  Time for new cutting plates, methinks!

Anyway, once I finally got that sorted, I layered onto another Whisper White oval.  The rest of the card is pretty self-explanatory.

Here are the challenges I used:

Products used (all Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated):

Stamps:  Extreme Guitar; Introducing

Cardstock:  Real Red; Island Indigo; Whisper White

Ink:  Versamark; Read Red; Island Indigo

Accessories:  Stripes EF; Nestabilities; sponge; Tasteful Trim die

Thanks for looking.

Cheers

Karren