PBSC June - Birthdays & Blog Hop!

It's the first Saturday of the month, so that means it's time for a new Penny Black Saturday Challenge...not only that, but this month we're celebrating our 8th birthday, so as well as our usual challenge, we're having a fun blog hop too!

The theme of this month's challenge is...of course:

'Birthdays!'

As usual, we are sponsored by the awesome 1-2-3 Stitch:

Prize - a $20 voucher!

In addition, there are some fabby little prizes on offer on some of the stops on the 'hop'...I have a cute kitty cling stamp as a blog prize for one lucky commenter on my blog:

To be in with a chance of winning, please leave a link to your entry for this month's PBSC 'Birthdays' challenge with the linky at the bottom of this post, and a comment on this post to let me know that you 'hopped by'!

My card is for my Dad's birthday later this month. I used one of the cute pups from the 'Man's Best Friend' set, which I coloured using watercolour pencils. I combined him with papers from the 'Recollections - Awesome Boy' pad by Michaels. I doodled some simple borders using a black gel pen, the added a couple of sentiments (from the 'Big Messages' set by Paula Pascual, and the 'You & I' set by Clearly Besotted).

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

• 4 Crafty Chicks - Masculine
• Cards Galore Encore - Anything Goes
• Crafting with Friends - Anything Goes
• Seize the Birthday - Anything Birthday

The next stop on our birthday blog hop is the lovely Lorraine...but before you hop off, don't forget to leave me a comment & a link to your PBSC 'Birthdays' challenge entry for a chance to win my blog hop prize.

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