Hubby's Birthday Card

My Hubby’s birthday is next week and I have been working on his card. Thank goodness for the 2 hr. delay today. The first picture is of me after I went out an snow blowed the driveway at 4:45 a.m.


I am very happy with the way this card turned out. I used Mojo Monday’s sketch. My hubby lives to fish. When I see fish paper I buy it. The base card is ivory Pure Luxury card stock from Gina K Designs. The fish paper is by LaRayne Miller and Keeping Memories Alive called Fishy Situation. I stamped the trout on this cool wood. It is real wood and a lot of fun to work with. I got it at one of my favorite scrapbook stores call Memory Bank in Baraboo, WI. The owner is going to CHA to demo this product for Making Memories. I used a CTMH stamp set called Catch of the Day. The feathers for the gig are from my hubby’s stash. I hope he doesn’t miss it. The screw brads are from Gina K Designs. and the ribbon with the foot steeps on it is something I had. The paper I used behind the fish paper and the for all of the scallops is really cool but I am sure you can’t see it. It has this shine, almost a glitter, to it. I don’t know what it is called. I got it when I go the wood to stamp on. The paper that looks like bubbles is ivory card stock that I ran through the CB after I inked the folder with SU Bordering Blue. The inside “Happy Birthday to you!” is stamped with a SU stamp and the line is from the CTMH set Catch of the day.
I think this is really a manly card. What do you think?

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Marbles?

I know I always say that each card I make was so much fun but this techniques was REALLY fun. Ginna K’s challenge at Stamp TV is to use the technique she taught called, “Marble Background.” I didn’t have any re-inkers so I picked some up this weekend. I got a set with 5 or 6 by Posh Rainbow. I used red and green. You put drops of re-inker and marbles in a box and shake to get ink on the marbles. Then you put your card stock in the box and shake. It makes a really cool pattern that kinda looks like paint splatters. It looked like Christmas to me so I made a Christmas card. I mounted it on Pure Luxury red card stock that I got in my Eclectic Summer Kit from Ginna K. Then I stamped the poinsettia flower from the Ginna K set by Melanie Muenchinger called A Year of Flowers on Pure Luxury white card stock and cut it out with my Cricut. I colored it with Copic markers and distressed it with Desert Sand by Memento and added tiny pearls by Kaiser to the center. The “Happy Holidays” is an A Muse stamp. The corner frill is a quickutz die-cut that I cut on my Cuttlebug and glittered with SU Dazzling Diamonds. The little red bead flowers are by Jenni Bowlin. The layout is this weeks Mojo Monday sketch. The challenge at Stamptacular Sunday is ‘Inside Out.’ I used some of the marble paper I made on the inside along with stamping part of the poinsettia.
I thought this would be a very messy technique but it wasn’t and it cleaned up easily with a little stamp cleaner spray. You can learn all about this technique over at Stamp TV.
This card also work for the Cuttlebug Spot challenge #41 which is Christmas in July and to use your Cuttlebug which I did for the corner.
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