Mick's Birthday

Here's a boy card for our friend Mick. He loves fish so I stamped a fish stamp 3 times in cranberry ink - then masked the fish and stamped the net stamp over the top in black. Penny Black Happy Birthday stamp in black ink as well.

Tim's Birthday

Here's a card for my brother-in-law's birthday. I love this huge Hero Arts stamp - it's perfect for boy cards! In the background I have stamped some circle Hero Arts stamps in different sizes (some of them are very hard to see in the scanned image). All mounted on black and aqua cardstock.

Paul's Birthday Card

Here's the birthday card I made for my brother. Background yellow cardstock - I've stamped with Versamagic ink the present stamp and then chalked over with orange chalk. Bird and saying stamps stamped on white cardstock with black archival ink. Coloured with watercolour pencils and blended in with the Dove blender pen. All Stamps from Hero Arts - Clear Design Bird sets.

Father's Day Card

Well it's Father's Day next weekend, so I thought I'd better get started with making some cards. I have heaps to make this week - 3 father's day cards, a birthday card for Caitlin, a birthday card for Mum - all due this coming weekend! Stress!!!
I have been sick the last few weeks and have had no motivation to do cards. Last night I made this card for my Dad and I'm really happy with how it came out. Had fun with resist embossing - I do love this technique. Have used a Hero Arts clear fern stamp (letter F in the alphabet range of stamps) - embossed in white on white gloss card. Have swiped over the top with VersaMagic Dew Drop chalk pads Spanish Olive and Aegean Blue. Polished with a tissue - then swiped gold over the cardstock and embossed with gold embossing powder. For the Father word - have used the large F from the Hero Arts clear F stamp set and letters from a Hero Arts Classic Alphabet set. All mounted on blue and olive cardstock.

Birthday Card For James

Here's a card for my new brother-in-law. I haven't had much time to stamp lately - so this was a very quick card!! Stripes are from a Hero Arts stamp - have used blue and green marvy markers for the colour. Happy Birthday stamp is from Penny Black - inked in Denim Adirondack ink. I think this card looks better standing on the shelf! The scanner sort of harshens up the image a bit.

Dad's Birthday Card

It was my Dad's birthday a couple of weeks ago. Here's a card designed especially for him! Car is from Stamp-It (Australia) and the Harlequin pattern is from Hero Arts. Birthday Wishes stamp is a clear stamp from Inkadinkado. Deep brown and red cardstock along with striped paper have been used. Technique - stamped the car in pinecone versacolor ink and then masked it. Then stamped harlequin pattern over the top with burgundy versacolor ink. Sponged some vanilla versacolor ink over the harlequin pattern with a tissue to get an aged look. Stamped car again and clear embossed on another piece of cardstock and then cut out and put over the top of the base image with magic mount (it's a bit hard to see the extra dimension in the scanned photo).

I'm pretty happy with how this card turned out. Boys cards can be hard to do!!

Sorry about how this displays on the blog with all the blank space below the image. Will have to work out how to crop this out.