Country Livin' Meets Thoughtful Branches

Today I thought I would make a masculine birthday card.  I wanted to use the Country Living stamp set, but as I went along, I envisioned the Thoughtful Branches stamp set, which is still available from Stampin' Up while supplies last.

Here is how my card turned out:

After stamping all the images separately and colouring them with blender pens and ink pads, they were cut out and the background scenes created.

On a 3 1/4 by 3 3/4" whisper white piece, three trees were stamped from the stamp set "Thoughtful Branches".  Marina Mist ink and a scallop circle created the sky.  Two little cardinals landed in the trees near the truck, probably waiting for the apple load it was carrying.

The cut out truck was placed in front of the trees, and some applies were placed in the cargo - a few fell on the ground and sentiment.  Some Wink of Stella was applied to parts of the car and the apples.

On a separate Whisper White panel 3 3/4 by 1 5/8" a background was stamped with Crumb Cake and the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.  The boots were adhered near the top, and the guitar angles at the bottom and adhered with dimensionals.

Both panels were layered with striped Real Red DSP and separated from each other with a 1/8" strip of Real Red card stock.

The sentiment is from "Happy Happenings.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Country Livin', Thoughtful Branches, Happy Happenings, Gorgeous Grunge
Inks: Black Memento,Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Basic Black marker, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Old Olive, Sahara Sand, Marina Mist
Papers: Real Red, Real Red DSP, Whisper White,
Accessories: Beautiful Branches Thinlet Dies, Wink of Stella clear glimmer brush, dimensionals

Boys will be boys - Technostamper #351

My grandson's birthday is one day after Valentine's day, although this is not the card I am sending him.   Mark is a very talented hockey player and plays for 2 teams.  He lives, eats, and breathes hockey, so if I didn't make a hockey card he won't even look at it.  Of course I made him a card with that sport on it!!
However, I was inspired to make some other children's cards.
Today I used the sketch with Technostamper here to make my first of many children's card (I hope)
I use the stamp set :"Boys will be Boys"

 

 

I wanted to use mainly primary colours for this card, so after stamping the image with Memto ink, it was coloured with yellows, blues, greens and reds (blendabilities)

The corners of the image panel were rounded using the corner rounder punch, and added to a Night of Navy striped DSP from the Painted Petals pack.

The sentiment was black embossed on vellum.  I chose vellum so that the image behind would not be hidden.  It is attached using glue dots, and I use brights candy dots to hide these dots.

At the bottom,  a piece of black chevron ribbon is wrapped.

 

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