This week over at Through the Purple Haze Challenges, the challenge is a sketch.
Sketches can be a love/hate relationship with me sometimes!! But once I saw this one, I knew I would love it. As you might have noticed I LOVE LOVE LOVE my 'scalloped circle lace die', and thought it would fit right in with the circle. I also have a tendency to do banner style designs with washi tape, and let me tell you, this week was no different!! ;-)This week it is Team A vs Team B, our monthly inter team challenge. So please, do pop over and vote for your favourite. The sponsors this week are Penny Black
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and Stitchy Bear.
As it happened, this weekend was a crazy one for us! My youngest brother James, had his 21st birthday party, so I decided to make a card, following the sketch for him:
I used a brown board for the back, and used my *favourite* die, (any guesses??!!) "Scalloped lace circle die', using some green paper I recently bought (his favourite colour is green) As per usual, I have no embellishments that suit a card for a male, so I had to dig deep!!
I used a kraft tag, and cut out a slightly smaller size cream piece of card and embossed it, using my Happy Birthday folder. I then lightly smudged some blue and green ink over the raised letters to highlight them. I cut out the two digits out of glitter foam.
With the twine, I threaded some alphabet beads spelling out 'JAMES'. I attached some honeycomb greyboard that I inked in brown (really need to get some more of this honeycomb!!) and attached it with two pegs. I used some washi tape, and cut it to give the bunting look, to tie in with the sketch.
I cut some cream card, and used a ribbon punch to punch out the slots, and then threaded some music printed paper through (James is a drummer and loves music). I used a combo of buttons and flat backed pearls around the scalloped die. I took the printed sentiment from a lovely scrapbook kit that I recently bought second hand.
Thanks for stopping by, and hope you are having a wonderful Monday! Why not give the challenge a go?
I will be entering the card in some challenges.
Anything Goes - http://totallygorjuss.blogspot.ie/
Emboss like a Boss - http://anyoneforanya.blogspot.ie/
Music - http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.ie/ (the strip of music paper)
Cards for men - Tag - http://cardsformen.blogspot.ie/
Lots of layers - c is for challenge - http://cisforchallenge.blogspot.ie/
Simon Says Stamp - embossing - http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/challenge-embossed/
Eithne
7 comments:
Love this very special 21st Birthday card its lovely..well done you x Anita
Hi Eithne!
Great birthday card---I'm sure your brother loved it!! Great idea for the big 21!
Hugs
Darcy
lovely birthday card, a special card for a special person...its lovely
fiona
x
brillant card, hope ur brother loves it, i'm sure he will
Great collage style card and lovely colours :-)
Thanks for joining in at Totally Gorjuss and good luck!
Hugs, Kat x
There are so many details on your card, this is such a cool interpretation of this sketch. I would like to thank you for entering my ‘C… is for challenge’ blog and I wish you good luck in the draw.
Hugs,
Anna xxx
Beautiful work! Thanks so much for joining us at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog! - Ashli :)
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