My lovely Dad celebrated his birthday today … he is actually having a few days away with my Mum so not celebrating with us at the moment. I did send the card with my Mum to give him today so hopefully he has seen it by now.
As usual it is always my challenge to make it completely different from the Father’s Day card given they are usually on display at the same time. So given the Father’s Day card was mixed media and a bit grungy I went clean and simple and fresh looking for his birthday card.
I started with a square piece of white card add stamped the leaf images from Natures Prints using brushos that I had sprinkled onto the glass mat and added water to and then stamped into to pick up the ink and then stamped down. This gave a really lovely imperfect stamping water colour effect.
I then mounted it onto black for a frame and added that to the card blank. Then I die cut the Happy Birthday die and stacked it up so it was a strong and more dimensional focal point. Added that and some gems and decided it was done!
Inside I took a smaller piece of the white card and added more stamping with the brushos. again mounted onto black just to add a little something to the inside of the card.
Just love how this turned out … simple but I think very effective!
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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