Birthday Card for a Guy
My brother-in-law is about to have a birthday. He loves the outdoors, so thought I'd use this beautiful stamp by ODBD for his card this year. Found the perfect gift for him when we were at the coast--a really neat fish windsock! The current ODBD challenge is sponging or stencils. As you can see, I went back to one of my favorite techniques--emboss resist. The image was black embossed & then I sponged on Distress Ink salty ocean, mowed lawn & pumice stone, using the new mini tool that I bought with a coupon weeks ago. I hand cut the image a bit smaller than the blue mat which was cut with Spellbinders Curved Rectangle. The edges of the sponged image & sentiment (also ODBD) panels are black embossed. Now I'm wishing the water splotches were smaller--next time--LOL! Finally opened my bottle of Goosebumps texture spray & used it on the scene--really a nice effect in person. The card front has stitching from Lil' Inkers & is embossed with a Tim Holtz folder. SSS Wed is Anything Goes, so I'll enter there. Since only the card itself was cut from a whole piece of cardstock, I'll take this over to Pixies Snippets Playground. SSS Work it Wed theme is to use blue, so I'll add my card there. Hard to believe it's already August, although our weather has felt like August for weeks--LOL! Thanks for your visit which I always appreciate.
Wonderful card! Love that inky beauty.
ReplyDeleteGreat card Greta. A great scene.
ReplyDeleteHello Greta,
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful masculine card, the image depicts the outdoors perfectly and I am sure your BIL will love what you have made.
Smiles:)
Sue
Wow the inking around the stamped image is so stunning, love it !
ReplyDeleteLOVE this Greta - and your brother is bound to love it too! Great colours you used with that stunning stamp.
ReplyDeleteHow interesting that you die cut the mat and then hand cut round the image. I think you might have something there in terms of the inner part of a die being a better reflection of the die cut than the outside is. Tee, hee - on the other hand - maybe you did it that way because of the image size :)
Hugs, Di xx
What a gorgeous scene Greta!
ReplyDeleteI love your card!!
A perfect card for someone who loves the outdoors!! I like those waterspouts too...you are braver than I, can't bring myself to try that LOL!!
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my fave stamps Greta and your use of the colors for the embossing resist is gorgeous!! I just love the die cut frame and your design with the black background!! I always enjoy seeing the creations you create for the ODBD challenge!! Thanks for joining us again this week!!
ReplyDeleteFantastic manly card Greta. Hubs would love all those blues, greens and browns!
ReplyDeleteA fabulous design and perfect for the guy!!!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous outdoor scene and you achieved a lovely effect with embossing and inking! Your brother will love this card!
ReplyDeleteHello Greta
ReplyDeleteWow, such a beautiful card, I love the colours of the sponged background especially the water splotches. Lots of snippets ued in a beautiful way.
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I love emboss resist and this is a beautiful example!
ReplyDeletefabulous masculine card, greta... the emboss/resist background is stunning!
ReplyDeleteOh, Greta, this is beautiful! Your BIL is going to love it, and I LOVE your sponging and the spritzing you did! And using the Goosebumps spray must be beautiful IRL! And I can see the stitching too, which adds more loveliness! Fabulous card for this week's ODBD Shining the Light challenge! So glad to have you join us again this week, sweet friend! I love it!! Hugs!
ReplyDeleteGreta, what a lovely card! Love the scene & colors.
ReplyDeleteEmboss resist is also one of my favorite techniques, you've used it so beautifully.
Fantastic masculine card Greta! Love the gorgeous scene that you created!
ReplyDeleteI think you can do just about anything with a card! This is simply gorgeous and I love the way you inked it. I am sure your brother in law will love it.
ReplyDeleteI can see the goosebumps spray and it does look wonderful.\
ReplyDeleteYour background is so pretty...and really suits this stamped image.
I am just still learning to get inky and have some inky underwater cards coming up but mine are very amateur...it sure is hard to get the colours right without letting them gey sort of muddy! You can tell mine are leaning towards muddy!
Great card, Greta.
Gorgeous card Greta, so elegant and I love your background.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
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Mandy xx
You're going to have one smiling brother-in-law when he receives this card! A most 'handsome' image; a most 'striking' card (there's my attempt at 'guy words'). Truly, I think it's beautiful!!
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Now that's one handsome card Greta! Fabulous colors for this ODBD image and your water splatters are not too big!! Thanks for joining us this week Greta!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a beauty! I love the colours you chose - they really pop against the black - and it's a great masculine design. Love the texture the Goosebumps adds (add? lol) too!
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