Birthday flight for men

Hello crafting friends!

How are you? Are you keeping busy while staying in? I have been feeling more grateful than ever for the card challenges that distract my mind so successfully. I tend to look at them first thing and then find myself mulling them over in my head while I do the chores. Here's a birthday card I made today:

There was a square card base out on my desk, so I went with that. I cut clouds on a separate piece of card stock using one of the Puffy Cloud Border dies from Lawn Fawn and attached it to my card base.

The bird is an X cut Dinky Die imaginatively titled 'Bird'. It makes a nice little accent on its own (see how I used it here) but today, I decided to give it a bit more detail and used a fineliner and alcohol markers to colour it in.

I finished the card with a greeting from Concorde and 9th's Enjoy it all and popped the bird up with dimensionals.

EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD
So pleased that this card won a top 3 place with AAA Cards!

CHALLENGES
The sketch challenge at AAA Cards is just the kind I like to get my teeth into - really clean, really simple. The optional twist is It Flies, and my little bird certainly does! I'm also playing along again at Happy Little Stampers' Anything Goes With Dies challenge.

AND IN OTHER NEWS
I do feel sad for young people whose universities have closed for lockdown. My youngest son is perfectly okay working at home but told me that his biggest challenge is feeling as if he's lost his independence. Getting that off his chest seemed to cheer him up though and he decided to take Eva out while doing his exercise. "See you later," I said as he left the house. He turned back. "Later my homie," he said with a wink.

Stay safe won't you.

Hugs,