Monday, September 26, 2016

Happy Birdday


A Blog Named Hero's current challenge theme is "Texture." I decided to create one more card for this. I will send this to Darlene at Live Love Cards, to go to a Meals on Wheels recipient. She has a few opportunities if you like to donate cards. You can read more about them at her site.


I used Sketch #10 from Operation Write Home--an oldie but goodie! I first cut 3 tags from cream cardstock, and stamped the owl from Hero Arts "Missing You" set on each, like he's peeking in from the sides. I colored the owls with Prismacolor colored pencils. Since this is a birthday card, and the owl looks kind of funky anyway, I colored him in bright, funky colors! I colored the whites of the eyes with a white gel pen, and used a black Sakura glaze pen on the pupils.

For the background, I used Penny Black's "Dotlets" stencil & Ranger Texture Paste. I taped my cardstock down and taped the stencil in place over it. I then spread the paste over the stencil, trying to get kind of an uneven texture, but not too wild. I removed my stencil and cleaned it & my knife, and set my panel aside to dry. After it had dried, I replaced the stencil, and inked the dots with Squeezed Lemonade Distress ink. For the strip behind the tags, I ran a piece of green cardstock through my Fiskars crimper tool, just to give another bit of texture & interest.

I stamped the greeting, also from "Missing You," on a strip of cream cardstock in Versafine Onyx Black ink. I cut it into a banner shape, and inked the edges with Squeezed Lemonade.

After I inked the edges of my tags with Squeezed Lemonade, I glued my crimped piece to the background, and then glued the tags to it. I punched a hole in the top of each tag, through all 3 layers, with my Crop-a-Dile II Big Bite. Then I set a gold eyelet in each hole. To continue the metal motif, I used my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher and staples I'd painted with liquid gold leafing to staple the greeting banner. I squirted a bit of glue under the banner, just to hold it down. Finally, I mounted my card front to a white A2 card base.

I'm also entering this card in a2z Scrapbooking's September Challenge: "Make It a Tag!"

14 comments:

  1. Your card made me smile!! So cute!! Thanks for playing with us at a2z.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Such a cute card; LOVE the dimensional polka dots; of course, I LOVE POLKA DOTS PERIOD. :D

    Cute, cute!

    Thank you for joining us at a2z Scrapbooking & A Blog Named Hero!!
    ~Michele, DT

    ReplyDelete
  3. Love your card and all the adorable tags! Super cute! Thanks for joining us at a2z!

    ReplyDelete
  4. too cute Andrea Thanks for joining us at A2Z this month.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Such a cute card with those owl tags! Thanks for playing along with a2z Scrapbooking September Challenge!

    ReplyDelete
  6. So funny and cute. So glad you joined us at A2Z Scrapbooking.

    ReplyDelete

I love to hear your thoughts on my work, so feel free to speak your mind!