Birthday Card For A Special Young Man

Hi everyone, my card today is a stamped collage card for a twelve year old.  My grandchildren have grown up so quickly and are into music, their mobile phones and computer games so what kind of card do I make for them?  I thought this would go down well incorporating the 12 for the age and personalising the insert.

The collage background was created using Tim Holtz tissue wrap, AALL guitar stamp, 49 and Market splatter stamp and an old wood mounted rubber stamp with three circles, distress inks and papermilldirect white linen, white hopsack, black plain, Christmas red plain card and white linen paper.

I started with a piece of white linen card and attached torn tissue with collage medium, when this was dry I added distress inks in yellows and oranges leaving some of the card un-inked.   The guitar collage stamp was stamped and heat embossed then coloured with red distress marker.  A selection of various stamps were stamped over the background and the numbers (12) and sentiments stamped.

Hopsack textured card was made into a card blank onto which a Christmas red mat was added, black card was layered onto the red and the stamped panel added to it.  An insert was printed with a personalised birthday greeting.

I have a blog post on the papermilldirect blog with a little more information.

Sylv xx