Keep moving!

 

Having three sons, only one daughter-in-law, and no sisters, I have the opportunity to make masculine birthday cards much more often than feminine ones. Also, middle son is turning 41 in about 10 days and enjoys riding his Harley in his spare time, so I thought the gauge dial was close to the speedometer/tachometer???  But I set the dial close to 41...his age this year!

 

The current challenge at TFJB Challenge Blog is Moving Parts. This gave me the opportunity to try out some of the goodies I received recently from The Funkie Junkie Boutique for being a random prize winner of the generous gift certificate! These are just a few of the items I chose!

I used the Mini Mechanics 3d Embossing Folder on a piece of black cardstock, added some Metallics Distress Crayons ( I love the Bronze!), created the Gauge Dial with the Gauge Frame, and added a Game Spinner heat embossed with some red embossing powder, and created the Enjoy the Journey tag on Kraft cardstock with Black Soot Distress Ink and some clear embossing powder.

I'm glad my son is coming to visit the day after his birthday so I don't have to send this baby through the mail!

Thanks for looking!

Travel

 This week's theme at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge , Let's Go On Vacation, was great motivation to create this travel themed thank you card. Our travel agent over the past several years has recently retired and we wanted to send her a thank you/gift card for all of her hard work, she made travel stress free.

I did some paper piecing with a couple of papers from 7 gypsies variety pack 'Lille' as well as some tags from some older stash. I then created the clasp closure using a 1/2" punch and a couple of eyelets and some twine.

The inside was created using the Stampendous Carte Postale stamp along with a cursive Thank You stamp.

 

The back of the card was a last minute addition using a retired Stampin'Up set Sentimental Journey.

Thanks for looking!

Birthday Time

 

 

The current challenge at The Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog is Stencil Mania...use at least three stencils...just in time for a birthday card for my daughter in law.

These are the three stencils I chose. I appreciate these challenges because it forces me to use some of the product that seems to get neglected. I decided to try a technique where you use kraft cardstock and  white ink through the stencil using a blending tool.

I also used the Tim Holtz Framelits w/ Stamps for the butterfly and watercolored it with Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick, and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

Thanks for the challenge!