Hooray It's Your Birthday!

Hello everyone, I have been working on my family birthday cards this week and made this dog card for one of my grandsons.  This year I am determined to use some of the many stamps I have, some of which have not seen the light of day yet, and try not to give into temptation and buy more.

I got out the crazy cats and dogs stamp set so I could use a funny dog on the card and gathered together some sentiments, mixed media style stamps and some stencils.  

A card blank was made with papermilldirect white linen card and the sewn circle was stamped onto a piece of white linen cut 2cm smaller than the card blank.  The little dog, which looks a bit like  my grandsons dog, was stamped in the circle and coloured with distress markers. I picked out some large sentiment stamps to help fill out the white space and stamped them in black ink.

The stamped panel was mounted onto a piece of papermilldirect post box red card to add some colour.  The card still looked very CAS for a young man's card so I stencilled the dots onto the card blank using red distress ink before adding the image panel.  The dog's nose, eyes and collar were highlighted with Glossy Accents and a few dots of blue perfect pearls added to add a little more colour.

As I had the stamps out I made another card using one of the cats, this time using a different colour and colouring the circle with a little blue and violet to make it look like a bubble.

More information on how I made the cards and the materials used can be found on the papermilldirect blog .

Sylv xx