Soccer boy

A teenage boy at our church had a birthday this past week.  Teen age boys are HARD to make cards for!!  But . . . I had ordered this image from The Paper Shelter with this specific boy in mind a little while ago, so it was the obvious choice.  He is the goal keeper on the JV soccer team at a local High School.  I wasn't able to find out from his mom what color he wears, but I did use the school colors for the papers and I guess, goalies can wear any color as long as it isn't the same as the rest of the team, so I chose yellow as it went with the green.  I made my own soccer ball embellishments by drawing on the pentagon shapes on two circle die cuts.  I did a little bit of selected printing on the boy's shirt.  I had a pattern that I knew wouldn't match the uniform, so I first printed the image on regular copy paper, cut out just the center portion of the shirt to use as a mask and adhered it onto my card stock in the right place before printing again.  My mask wasn't exactly in the right place, so I had to draw the rest of the badge or pocket on the chest as it had partly printed.  But the mask did work to take out the rest of the pattern and I was pretty happy how it worked.  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Stamps: The Paper Shelter "The Goalkeeper" digi; Raisin Boat "It's a Guy Thing" sentiment
Dies: Sweet n' Sassy Stamps grass border die; Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"

Challenges:
Crafty Creations #401--anything goes
Pink Gem Challenge--anything goes
The Paper Shelter--make it square
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes
Creative Fingers #174--anything goes
Cards Galore #69--anything goes
Pattie's Creations #164--anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper
Brown Sugar #295--anything goes
Creatalicious #174--anything goes with the optional twist: for a man