Cherish the moment

Good morning! Just thought I'd post a quick card on before I head off today to one of my favourite places - the craft shop! I'm lucky enough to have a great craft shop in our town - CardCraftUK - and although I get many of my supplies online (such an easy way of shopping these days!), I do try and support the smaller craft shops as well. And it's so nice for a paper addict like me to be able to pick papers up and have a good look - it's not quite the same on a computer screen lol! But with Father's Day coming up here in the UK, I really need a suitable sentiment stamp, so I'll let you know what I find!
Today's card features a LOTV stamp with one of their cute little boys on

Just love that expression! The stamp is called 'By the river' and I've coloured him with promarkers and prisma pencils

Not sure how well the colours show up - I'm afraid the substitute photographer took the picture (i.e. me!) as the better photographers (i.e. husband and 13 year old son!) were unavailable! For some reason my photos never seem to look quite as good as theirs :(

The stripy backing paper is from Nitwit and the different shades of brown heavyweight papers are from American Crafts. 

When trying to think of suitable embellishments, but in an effort to keep it simple, I decided to die cut the Meadow Leaf (from Poppystamps) in different shades of brown, layer them up and then add the Whimsy stamp sentiment. 

I was quite pleased with the effect - I've used that die so many times, but it seems to fit well with either boys cards or more girly cards with flowers & bows.

Hope you like the card! Right, I'll finish my jobs & head off for a browse through the crafting goodies! 

Back soon, Kim x 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges :-

CraftySentiments - anything goes

CelebratetheOccasion - anything goes

Make It Monday

PartyTimeTuesday - anything goes

OneStopCraft - one for the boys