My "TEE"- RIFFIC Guy

My apologies to dh and dd and others who have been waiting so long for me to post this card. I fall behind in posting my cards on a timely basis because I restrict myself to posting only once a week. I would love to spend more time posting and surfing blogs, but then I find myself spending way too much time on the computer and I am left with very little time to do any actual crafting.

Okay, anyway, this is the card I created for dh's birthday, which was actually a month ago in October. Again, I had a hard time with this because it had to be "MAN"-ly. I knew I wanted it to have a golf theme, since it's dh's favorite passtime and because I wanted it to go with the golf club birthday present he told me I was getting for him.

Since none of the cricut cartridges I own have any golf images on them, I went searching again at the Design Studio forum on the Cricut Message board. Found a few cuts for golf clubs, which I used as a springboard to create my own. Creating cuts on Design Studio doesn't come very easily for me, as I always have difficulty with arcs and angles not looking right...so I ended up spending quite a bit of time sitting and staring at dh's woods, trying to figure out where it should be round and where it should be square. Even with that, my resulting final cut did not look right. I ended up having to snip off the shaft and repositioning it to get the angles right. Times like this makes me wonder why I even bother to spend the time trying to create it on Design Studio... might have been faster to just draw freehand and cut with a pair of scissors!

The tee was a cut file created and generously shared by Jen C., the Design Studio whiz. (Thank you, Jen!) The golf ball was cut with a circle punch from glossy photo paper and embossed with the Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles folder to add some bumpy texture to it. Kinda neat how it made the ball look realistic!

Then, for a fun dimensional look, I glued the golf ball, tee, and the sentiment to a piece of clear transparency plastic which I adhered to the card front. The golf club (cut from glossy black and metallic silver cardstock) was positioned behind the ball and adhered to the base card. Second photo shows the resulting layers to the front of the card.

Sentiments inside were completely computer generated, the little golf ball and tee images are clipart from Broderbund's Printshop software, colored in with Prismacolor pens.