Happy Birthday Sara!

Its my SU 'Mum' Sara's birthday today and, breaking with tradition, I managed to remember a couple of weeks ago AND got her card to her in plenty of time.  I am so proud of my self - its normally a mad rush the day before for any birthday cards I need to make!!!

Heres a picture of her card - thankfully, she likes the distressed effect!

I used one of her favourate colours, Baja Breeze for the card blank and ink on the flower.  And as they love to travel, I used the map DSP from the Newsprint set for the flower.

A mat of Newsprint DSP (lined paper) was stamped with the Sanded background stamp and the edges darkened using Soft Suede ink and a sponge dauber.  Then I inked the large image from Notably Ornate in Stazon ink and stamped onto the mat.

Then I used the Texture Wheel with Versamark ink and clear embossing powder to heat emboss some texture onto the mat.  Once this cooled I inked the edges more with Early Espresso do give a bit more contrast.

The flower was cut from the Sizzix Fun Flowers die and the edges curled before mounting with dimentinals and a button added to the centre.  The little tags attached to the button are from the Tiny Tags set and punched out with the Medium Jewelery tag punch.

To finish off I stamped the bird from Notably Ornate on the top corner of the mat, punched a thin strip of Very Vanilla card with the Eyelet Border punch, attaching it to the opposite side and then secured the flower.

Well, thats all from me today.  Sorry, but I have to prepare for a large workshop tomorrow in Sheffield in the morning.  But I will bob back to update you with things again soon.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend
Jan
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