Masculine Birthday Cards

Birthday card for a great nephew!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps - Stampin' Up! CATCHIN' AIR

Inks - Staz On Black

Other - Ranger Alcohol Inks and Blending Solution, Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen, foam mounting tape or fun foam and glue

Cardstock - Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110 lb, glossy white, colored

TECHNIQUE: (TIP: Make a larger piece than you think you will use as you only have partial control over wher ink/color ends up, and it will be nice to have something to choose from :-)

1.  Open windows and ventilate well!  There will be fumes.

2.  Spread blending solution on glossy cardstock.  Drop colored inks onto surface. Add more solution to further blend. Allow to set up a bit in between applications to achieve crisp edges of color. 

(TIP: I found it worked best to add metallic pearl in between color for best visual depth of field.)

3.  Use black ink to stamp image and sentiment. 

4.  Use gel pen to add snow droplets.

5.  Mount image panel to colored cardstock, and mount that to white cardbase using foam tape or fun foam panel.

Playing along with Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #450 Create Your Own Background

Special-order card from hubby for son, who is a huge Twins fan!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps - Stampin' Up! sentiment

Inks - Stampin' Up! blue, Distress brown

Markers - Tombow red

Pencils - Prismacolor gray

Other - Sakura  Gelly Roll white gel pen, wood veneer paper

Paper - colored cardstock, Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110 lb cardstock

TECHNIQUE:

1. Use a small plate rim and pencil to lightly draw in two circle arches as shown. Cover with line of red marker, and draw in 'stitching'.

2.  Use paper piercing tool at each end of stitching to add life-like stitch holes.

3.  Shade center line with gray colored pencil.

4.  Freehand draw a bat shape on wood veneer paper and fussy cut. Shade edges with brown inkpad.

5.  Stamp sentiment in blue ink on white cs scrap and mount to colored cardstock as shown, adding white dots.

6.  Adhere sentiment panel and bat to image panel, and this to colored panel. Mount on white cardstock base.