Birthday

Hello & thanks for joining me on a hot sunny afternoon. We've had television guys here working in our basement room, so I've been downstairs finishing up this card. Our family has a lot of summer birthdays, and this card is for Niece Julie, who shares a birthday with me- about 16 years apart. Julie likes Boyd's Bears, has quite a collection of them - stuffed, ceramic, porcelain. So when I saw this Boyd's Bear stamp, I knew exactly who it would be for.

- Boyd's Bear image, colored with copics. I added some Spica dots on her collar after I had finished all the coloring, background, etc. and then smeared a blob at her shoulder. Grrrr...nothing else to do, but fussy cut it out. I was so aggravated with myself. I've also added some Spica clear to the flowers, ribbon. Let that dry overnight, and when I was finishing up the card this afternoon, I added a bit of Glossy Accents to her eyes, nose and a couple of the flowers. The mats were cut with S/Binders Opulent Ovals. The bottom blue one is made with glossy cardstock and alcohol inks. (Oh yes, I watched another Youtube last night!).

- Embossed vellum border behind the mats was done with an Anna Griffin Foulard EF I found yesterday at Michael's.

- Blue paper was from a snippet in the box (oh I did manage to collect all the different piles around the stamp area & put into plastic bins. I had to sort of straighten up before the tv folks got here). The paper is probably The Paper Studio.

- Elizabeth Craft sentiment, diecut with a practice piece of the alcohol ink session.

- bow is from some ribbon I had picked up long ago, just because I liked the colors. I was looking for some seam binding to die to match the roses on Miss Boyd, but I couldn't find it. I did run across this, and thought it would work. Hope you like this one.

Now last night I watched Scrapbooking Made Simple Youtube, Video #73. Stacy did a
technique with Ruby Rockit embossed vellum, applying alcohol ink on the backside of the embossed vellum. Neat technique, and very classy look. I didn't have any of this specific vellum, so this afternoon, I took some medium weight vellum, inked a damask stamp with versamark & stamped on vellum. Used Ranger Silver Pearl EP to emboss this design. Then I tried the alcohol ink on the back side, and it worked pretty good! My stamp was not large enough to cover my vellum, so I didn't get a perfect look, but I'm going to dig out my Cover A Card Impression Obsessions, and find one that will work better. Will post my results here later! In the meantime, have a wonderful evening. Come again when you can, and many hugs.