One For The Boys

Good morning folks and hoping that you all had a lovely weekend. Monday is here again (where is the year going!) so it's time for a new challenge over at Make My Monday. This week the challenge is to make One For The Boys so it's a great time to get ahead with those cards for the men in your life, something I'm doing as we have quite a few birthdays coming up over the next couple of months.
My creation is a rather quirky as I couldn't resist inking up my steampunk owl, having got into steampunk mode last week. Here's what I made and hope you like it.

I stamped the owl image (Stampendous)
with black ink, stamping just the head and hat and the bow tie section again so that I could decoupage him. I coloured him with a variety of Promarkers and cut the elements out, assembling the pieces with foam tape.
I then made a rather experimental background with a Tim Holtz texture fade embossing folder. I used a piece of card slightly larger than the folder and inked just the embossed section all over with Wild Honey Distress ink. Then instead of swiping ink over the raised areas as I would normally do, I pressed the ink pad directly on them. This does produce lines but you really do have to go with the flow as you'll see from the pic below that they end up being part of the design and giving a very grungy look. I used Stormy Sky, Barn Door and Vintage Photo. I think those stripes give a very cool effect!

The Design Team have made some really lovely cards for your inspiration so do hop over for a look and I do hope you'll enter.

Have a great day.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Some challenges for my card:
Glitter n Sparkle Challenge - Male Cards
Scrappy Frogs - Try Something New (see my background above)
Dutch Dare Card Challenges - Winged Things