Recently, two men in my life celebrated birthdays. They're both in their eighties so the usual themes of football, fast cars, beer and hill-climbing no longer apply. Here's what I came up with.
Card #1
Card #2
The backgrounds were found in the bits and bobs box - leftovers from a couple of previous makes. The bright blue one was quite obviously made from spray inks but, if I remember correctly, the more subtle colours of the second were made by using the technique of squishing garden flowers onto card using a die-cutting machine. Not that I can remember the flowers used - I tried out the technique a good few years ago.
Supplies used:
- white A6 card bases
- the found background pieces
- scraps of hessian and turquoise glitter paper from the American Crafts' mixed media pad from the 'Dear Lizzy New Day' collection for card #1
- Kraft cardstock for card #2
- scraps of white card for the toppers and greeting circles - both cards
- stamps; wading birds from 'Wetlands' by Stampin' Up! - card #1; ears of corn from 'Autumn Harvest' by Hunkydory - card #2; greeting from 'Special Occasion Stamps' - a gift from a 2013 issue of Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine - both cards
- inks - Ranger's Archival 'Jet Black' - both cards
- pens - Memento Dual Markers in 'Cantaloupe', 'Dandelion', 'Rich Cocoa' & 'Potter's Clay' for card #2
- tools - die-cutting machine and a set of Docrafts' Spiro Circles dies for matting toppers on both cards
As you can see, the design is super simple, using very little in the way of supplies - and most of them from the snippet box too.
I'm submitting a card to Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #361. It makes a change for Di for it not to be a Christmas card, which is what I seem to be making most of the time these days.
I trust you have had a lovely weekend. We certainly have had a sunny one here. Well, it was until today - it's been dreich and damp from overnight rain, but the garden needed it so I'm not complaining.
Take care and enjoy what's left of today.
3 comments:
What wonderful cards Elizabeth and perfect for male cards. I love the background and the little images in the foreground, super colours too,Kate x
Two lovely cards Elizabeth...great for those men...xxx
Wonderful cards Elizabeth! I love that they're sort of generic in style. Not tried pressing flowers using a die cutting machine but I certainly used to have two flower presses I made, the smaller one used to go on caravan travels :) A long time ago now!
Hugs
Di xx
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