Saturday 21 January 2012

Birthday Card

Hello!  Here's a card I made today for my brother's birthday.  He's an avid video gamer, so I thought this would be a good card for him.  It's a Sunshine Designs image, one of a set of four.  I stamped it on watercolour paper and embossed it, then watercoloured it with Tombow markers, and accented with Stickles.  I added in some sound lines and Batman-style "pops" "bzzts" and "zaps" for the sound effects.  The background paper is from the Marrakesh pack of BasicGrey accent papers and the background stamp is another Sunshine Designs cube.  The card base is Mellow Mossand I added a final accent of dimensional pearls (Ranger) in Denim.  A quick card that was good for using some paper scraps.  The longest time is figuring out the layout.  It's also quicker to decide on the paper and then choose the marker colours.  Edited to add:  This is more vibrant in real life but Sauron the Scanner hates me and refused to cooperate.  I tinkered with my photo editing software to the full extent of my patience to no avail.  You'll just have to picture it brighter :-)

Thanks for stopping by!

PS  A huge thank you to the ladies who came out to my calendar class at Heather's Stamping Haven last week.  I had a wonderful time!

4 comments:

  1. Love the colour scheme (and of course the stamp :D). Awesome job on the soft retro feel of this card, Karen!

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  2. This is SERIOUSLY cute! Love how you used the patterned paper and the way you personalized it with all the "effects". Such fun, Helen - he is bound to love this!

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  3. What a great "guy" card. I bet he'll love it. I like the way you personalized it with some pen work. I am always too chicken to do that!

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  4. Wow...simply stunning card Steph..gorgeous colours too. I like the way you personalized it with some pen work. I am always too chicken to do that!

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