Happy 90th Birthday for a Guy

I was at a craft show yesterday - not a good one.  You get those every once in a while.  But what I did get was a special order to make 2 birthday cards for a gentleman who turns 90 years today.  I had to make them in a hurry because they called me last night and need them for noon today.
Here is one of them:

This gentleman is interested in old things and in gold and silver, so I envisioned a vintage card featuring an old map.
I used a basic black cardstock layered with Typeset Specialty DSP which I stamped on with the Gorgeous Grunge stamp and Soft Suede ink.  The edges were then distressed and inked with Early Espresso ink.

The World Map stamp was stamped on a piece of Whisper White paper and using a sponge dauber I sponged on Marina Mist where I saw bodies of water, and soft suede and old olive (I stamped off first) for the land.  Then the piece was cut into 3 equal pieces, the edges distressed, inked with Early Espresso, and mounted onto basic black card stock-which was torn to match the patterned pieces.  They were mounted onto the card slightly overlapping each other.

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Hope they like the card.
I'll show you the second card in a separate post.

Traveler Happy Birthday - Unscripted Sketches 258

This card is for the sketch challenge with Unscripted Sketches here

Stamps:  Traveler, Something to Say

Inks: Soft Suede, Early Espresso

Papers: Soft Suede, Whisper White, Retired SAB designer paper, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Lines Folder, Square Lattice Folder, Apothecary Accents framelits, Word Window punch.

The image was stamped with Early Espresso ink, cut out, and adhered over the Apothecary Accents die cut making it look like it was coming out of a tunnel.

All edges were sponged with Soft Suede ink.

Serene Silhouettes - The Friday Mashup 161

The challenge this week with The Friday Mashup here is to create a project with trees, or create a project with heat or dry embossing, or mash it up and create a project with Embossing and Trees. I decided to make a card that not only had a tree on it, but also had both heat and dry embossing.

The treee was embossed with a mixture of Gold and Wild Wasabi embossing powders.  You can see the sheen of the gold on the image on the bottom.  The Very Vanilla layer is embossed with the Stylish Stripesf embossing folder.

Stamps: Serene Silhouettes, Something to Say
Inks: Versa Mark
Papers: Gumball Green, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Fresh Prints DS Paper Stack
Accessories: Stylish Stripes folder, 3/8" Summer Starfruit stitched satin ribbon, Deco Labels framelits, 1 3/4 by 7/8" oval punch, Gold embossing powder, Wild Wasabi embossing powder, dimensionals, rhinestones.

I chose to use the Summer Starfruit ribbon, but considered using either the Gumball Green, or Midnight Muse.  The Gumball Green made the card look too "green"; the midnight muse stood out too much, so in the end I used the Summer Starfruit.  What do you think?  Was that the right choice?

Blended Bloom - Technostamper #315

Thought I would use one of the stamps from the new catalogue , coloured with the new blendability pens.  I just love these colouring pens!!  I must admit it was a little hard on my healing hand which still can not function as normal.

This card is for the challenge with Technostamper here

 

Stamps:  Blended Bloom, Something to Say

Inks: Black Memento, Blendabilities (Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzelberry, Skin tones)

Papers: Rich Razzelberry, Whisper White, Basic Black, Moonlight Designer Series Paper Pack

Accessories: Banner Framelits