Jazz it up birthday card

Today I thought I'd share a birthday card that I made for my brother in law.  As he loves his music I thought this stamp set would be perfect to use.

The Stamps set I used for my card is the Jazz it Up by Visible Image. I heat embossed the main Jazz it Up stamps with black embossing powder and slightly overlapped the saxophonists.

I used glossy accent on the bubble stamp to give it more dimension.

The background was created with Tim Holt distress oxides in abandoned coral and salty ocean.

With a little background stamping with a Crafty Individuals distress diamonds rubber stamp and some frayed burlap distress oxide. 

I stamped the keyboard border and attached it to some foam tape to add more dimension.

I love making backgrounds for cards and find that when I make a men's card I tend to turn to my stamps. I love Visible Image stamps, they are always that bit different and quirky as well as being excellent quality.

Happy Crafting

Michelle

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Heart mixed media plaque

The theme for this heart is red/roses/ hearts and this is what I came up with.

 This is what I used to start with:-

• MDF heart
• card gift tag & white watercolour card
• Visible Image - Love you longer stamp
• Crafty Individuals - distressed diamond background stamp
• Leonie Pujol Typography mini embossing folder
• Tim Holtz distress oxides inks in frayed burlap, pickled raspberry, abandoned coral

I made my inky background using the above distress oxides and included candied apple as it needed a deeper red.

I love the way all these colours just layer up so well together.

 I used the same colours on the tag but as the tag had a coating on it the colour dried a lot lighter.

Using a black stazon ink I stamped the sentiment onto the tag using the Visible Image - Love you longer sentiment stamp.

I drew around the mdf heart onto my inky background and cut it out.  Then I started to use the Crafty Individuals distressed diamond background stamp with the frayed burlap distress oxide ink.
I decided to add a little more texture with one of the Typography embossing folders by Leonie Pujol. These are absolutely brilliant for adding embossing to small areas.

I added the embossing to the corners of the tag also and then some mega gilding flakes by Indigoblu in Royal Peacock. Once I was happy with how it looked I stuck my heart to the mdf along with the stamped label.

I love the sentiment on this stamp and I'm happy how this plaque turned out.

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Happy Crafting

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