Encre, papier, ciseaux: To the King of BBQ

Inspiration: Mojo Monday #518 + Little Red Wagon #503 + Inspired By #78

I crushed really hard on the Sparkle City collection when I saw it in a video from the Creativation show and bought most of the items from the collection when they came out. I hadn't made anything with it just yet because I was a little intimidated to dive into the big paper pad. This is something that I've learned to fight over the years, to save my favorite items for something extra special. This is just supposed to be a fun hobby and there's no point hoarding the pretty stuff, so might as well dive in! I would usually have made a page first and then a card afterwards but I was feeling like making cards today and decided there was no reason to not dive straight into my pretty paper pad, so I picked the fun fast food pattern first, since it fit the BBQ theme from Inspired By, and I pulled out the Let's BBQ stamp set to go with it.

I was working off the Mojo Monday sketch and the little grilling fork and spatula were perfect to mimick the hanging element of the sketch, but the card was not balanced if I placed them underneath the barbecue, so I moved them to the right side and added mini silver brads as hanging hooks.

The Little Red Wagon challenge was calling for non-occasion cards and this fit the theme perfectly. I looked at various stamp and die options, but in the end, I reached for my trusty Dymo to make my own: "to the king of the grill". Can't be more generic than that.

Because the paper pad is huge - 48 pages - I felt I had enough paper to make my own matching envelope, and I used a tag from a paper from the same pad to have a blank space for the address.

Supplies
Stamps: Let's BBQ (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Smoky Slate, Whisper White (Stampin' Up!)
Patterned Papers: Sparkle City (Shimelle for American Crafts)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: Let's BBQ Dies, Outside In Stitched Rectangle Stackables (Lawn Fawn);
Distressing Tool, Envelope Punch Board, Mini Silver Brads (Stampin' Up!);
Markers (Copic); Black Tape and Label Maker (Dymo); Pînking Edge Square Die-namics (My Favorite Things)