Seize the Birthday wants to see a "no stamping" card and the AAA Birthday Card Challenge wants something masculine. I combined the two for my nephew's upcoming birthday.
I started by spraying some mixed media cs with gold and a little bit of silver metallic sprays. When dry, I die cut the gears border and the sentiment.
I glued them to a background on which I'd lightly stencilled some gold ink, and then popped the panel up on fun foam for some dimension.
Triple B wants to see birds, blooms, or butterflies in green, and the Double D challenge wants to see mostly green on the card.
I created a debossed inky resist with my butterflies embossing folder by rubbing the raised pattern with Versamark, putting mixed media cs into the folder, and running it through my Cuttlebug, and then adding clear embossing powder and heating it. See this video for instructions.
I then smooshed the panel with a bunch of green Distress inks and a little touch of blue. I added the panel to the card base and die cut a solid butterfly out of white shimmer cs and the top layer of the butterfly out of blue shimmer cs (I tried doing it with green shimmer cs but there wasn't enough contrast and also I wanted to bring out the touch of blue in the background a bit).
Supplies for card 1:
Ink - Martha Stewart gold ink
Paper - white and mixed media cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - various gold and silver sprays, TCW screen print stencil, gears die
Supplies for card 2:
Ink - Versamark, various green and blue Distress inks
Paper - mixed media cs, white cs, white and blue shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Darice embossing folder, memory Box butterfly dies
two great cards Susan, the cogs make a perfect masculine card and your emboss resist using your embossing folder is so pretty. The colour combo is stunning with the flecks of blue in the greens ♥
ReplyDeleteThe first is a brilliant masculine make Susan with the sprayed gold and silver card used to die cut the cogs, and then the second with the very pretty colourful look of the white embossed areas on the embossing folder with the added smooshed inks in those lovely greens and a touch of blue which you picked up on perfectly with your blue and white shimmery layered butterfly. Just to let you know, the links to the challenges aren't live. x
ReplyDeleteThis is a great masculine card, Susan! I love how you did the gears with metallic ink. The background with the butterflies is gorgeous! Love these colors!
ReplyDeleteYou nailed both challenges with two fun cards. I love the smooshed background with the green and blue.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your gear designed card for your nephew! The gold tones are fabulous and it's so perfectly masculine. Thanks so much for taking on my Topping over at Seize the Birthday!
ReplyDeleteLove the gear card you did for your nephew - so terrific! The colours are so great and the layout is super fun. thanks for playing along with Seize the Birthday.
ReplyDeleteFabulous cards gorgeous colour combination too x
ReplyDeleteLovely card , in green color and blue butterfly
ReplyDeleteGears work perfectly for a masculine card. Thanks for joining in at AAA Birthday & STB
ReplyDeleteWow, your cards are amazing. You have such an eye for color and design. Beautiful creations here!! Lots of wonderful work, and great take on the challenge. Thanks so much for playing along with us over at Double D, I hope we see you back again soon!
ReplyDeleteJudy~ DD DT Designer
Two fabulous cards. I'm especially smitten with the gears; the metallic sprays create a delightful masculine vibe. Thank you for joining us at AAA Birthday.
ReplyDelete~carol