This morning I was inspired by the challenge over at The Paper Players CAS Challenge "Birthdays and Balloons". Great idea, Stef! As it happens, my younger brother turns 78 in just a couple of weeks.
I started this card with a sheet of kraft wood-embossed cardstock, making a card base and then due-cutting a rectangle from the back of the same stock so that I could stamp on it. I love these animals with attitude from Whimsy Stamps "So Weird" #CWSD473 and knew I wanted to use one of the images and sentiments for a BD card for my brother. I stamped the bull directly on the kraft panel with black ink and touched him up with a bit of white gel pen. I stamped a spatter of stars and confetti with black ink on a white scrap and then over-stamped Tim Holtz's balloons on a white scrap. I colored them with Copic markers and fussy cut them. I glued the yellow one directly on the panel and attached the red-orange one with a bit of cardstock behind for a bit of dimension. Using the white gel pen, I added strings from the balloons down to the bull. The final step for the front was to attached the sentiment after white heat-embossing it on black cardstock and cutting it with a die-cut strip.
Inside the card is very simple - sentiments stamped in black and the splatter with red-orange. As a finishing touch, I inked the outside edge of the card with my black ink pad.
The Paper Players: PP773 - A CAS Challenge from Stef
That sentiment is a hoot, what a fun card for your brother!
ReplyDeleteFran, your card is absolutely hilarious! That bull! And the sentiment is the truth, right? Love the TH balloons too. Fabulous CAS birthday card! Thank you so much for playing along with my CAS challenge this week at the Paper Players!
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