This year seems to be one of big birthdays- My mum is 65 in a couple of months and myself, my other half and my best friend are all hitting 40! I'm the youngest of the three of us - my friend and partner are both 'celebrating' this week (spooky my other half and best friend of 25yrs were born in the same week!). Needless to say my weekend has been focused on creating cards for them and this is the one I've made my friend. She's a bit of a rock chick and so I've used a recently purchased (from E-Bay, is anyone else addicted?) set of stamps from Inkadinkadoo and my fav distress inks in milled Lavender, Dusty Concorde and Pumice Stone. I coloured with Milled Lavender first, then clear embossed the stars to create a resist before adding the other colours and stamping with Hero Arts dots. My trusty Tattered Florals die provided the feminine touch and a computer generated message finished off.
The guitar is embossed with black glitter EP - (you can see it if you click to enlarge the pic), and for the other images I've used Opaque Pewter by Stamp 'N' Stuff which is a gogeous EP for distressed looks but one I tend to forget about. I made this card purely based on what my friend would like but it does happen to fit a couple of challenges by coincidence so I thought why not...over it goes to -
Now I must dive over to Facebook to remove the Network Blogs post before my friend sees this!! And I better think about what I'm going to make for the Other Half - not so easy...Men are so difficult (and tricky to make cards for too!!)
Thanks for visiting - Enjoy what's left of the weekend....Esther xx
Terrific card Esther and congratulations on winning The Stampman with a fabby card. Have a great week. Annette x
ReplyDeleteFab card Esther, I love the stamps you've used and the colours are gorgeous! Thanks for joining us at LIIU and good luck
ReplyDeleteClaire xx
Hi Esther, Brilliant card, sounds like you've got a lot of cards and a lot of celebrating to do, also sounds like loads of fun too:0) xxx
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome !
ReplyDeleteMarie
Your friend is going to love this card - its fabulous! Very decadent! Thank you for playing along at LIIU. Suzanne B
ReplyDeleteoh well done on your win hun,that stamp is brilliant,love the embossing on this,your friend will just adore this hugs cherylx
ReplyDeleteI'm sure she'll love it! Really like your use of stars. Thanks for joining the challenge at Simon Says Stamp & Show.
ReplyDeleteTerrific card, I adore it. Your rock chick friend will love it. So your my adversary bumping up the e-bay prices (yes, my source for different stamps too). Thanks for playing at LIIU. Hope to see you again. Caz
ReplyDeletewhat a FUN easel card! love the colour combo, and you rocked the embossing! thanks so much for sharing your sweet creation with us at Charisma this week! :D
ReplyDeletegorgeous card hun... all those birthdays... how fab.. loads of cake!! Thanks for joining in with the Sunday sTamper x
ReplyDeleteFabulous card Esther. Love the colour and style. Your friend is sure to love it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining in with LIIU die cuts/punches challenge and good luck!
Fliss x
Fabulous card Esther, love the colour combo.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp for our Happy Birthday challenge
hugs Mandy xx
Gorgeous card, what a lot of birthdays, good luck with making all the cards
ReplyDeleteGreat card! Thanks for joining us at Let's Ink it Up...I love your die cuts!
ReplyDeleteAlicia xx