IT'S JUST A NUMBER

Hello, Sunday! Today is my husband's birthday - perfect timing for this week's Paper Players Challenge #PP658 - "Sports", selected by our very talented Claire.

The Paper Players: PP658 - A Clean-and-Simple Challenge from Claire

YIKES! I didn't focus on the fact until just now that this was supposed to be a Clean-and-Simple challenge! Well, perhaps because of all of the times I've designed CAS cards when not required, I can be forgiven this one time for breaking the rules. No way am I going to start over!

My husband is a HUGE baseball fan - more specifically the San Francisco Giants. My own interest in any form of sports varies from zero to nil, but he lives and breathes baseball statistics, so I knew I needed to reflect his own statistics in his birthday card this year. I started with an orange 7-1/4 x 5-1/4 envelope that I lined with some old baseball paper given me by my daughter-in-law's sister when she was cleaning out a craft room to move residences. Not being one to ever turn down any paper, I put it into my stash for use some time later - which is now. The envelope was an odd place to start, but I followed it by finding an online image of one of the SF Giants players (Hal will know who it is, but I don't). I printed him and fussy cut him out and mounted him on a piece of the baseball paper that was matted with orange and attached all layers to a black card base. I die cut the numbers twice, layered them, and stamped a PTI sentiment in black ink above. It's disappointing that my phone translated this card as red, rather than red-orange. 

I suppose the interior of the card could be considered CAS. I computer generated the sentiment and printed it on orange paper, matted it with the baseball paper, and fussy cut one of the baseballs from the leftover scraps.

Don't follow my lead - make sure to keep your cards clean-and-simple! Check in with my fellow designers at each of their blogs and have fun with Claire's theme.