Happy Birthday To My Boys!

Happy Friday!

Today, my youngest son, David, turns 18! He has such a happy disposition. He loves animals, he makes me laugh everyday and he still gives me hugs whenever I want - love that! :) I made him a card using the Number Pattern background stamp from Hero Arts. It's become my go-to stamp for birthdays this year.

  
I stamped it in black onto a darker kraft card base and added the sentiment and chipboard numbers with dimensional adhesive. Happy Birthday, David! I love you!

My older son, Erich, has a birthday coming up too! He'll be 22 this coming Monday. He is so intelligent, quite shy, very sweet, and he has the most gentle soul of anyone I know.

For his card, I used the same stamp, but this time I used Cup O' Joe Mid-Tone Shadow Ink and stamped it onto a pool colored panel. Then I distressed the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

I added a bit of twine across the sentiment strip, and those little brown embellishments are Enamel Dots. (LOVE!) I didn't have any brown ones, so I colored a few white ones with a Copic marker. Happy Birthday, Erich! I love you! 

Hope everyone has a fun weekend! Thanks for stopping by! :)

Pretty Painted Flower

Hi there!

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I'm still playing with the pretty stamp from Hero Arts called, Painted Flower. I've told you before that it inks up so beautifully - already shaded - no coloring necessary. Don't get me wrong, I DO love to color, but when I'm in a pinch for a quick card, this stamp will be one that I reach for!
 

For today's card, I had already stamped the flower with markers and it was sitting on my desk waiting to be put on a card. But then I saw a card from my friend Jacqueline, here. She stamped it on a tag using only black ink and it was beautiful! That gave me an idea. Why not overstamp the blue flower with black ink and see what it looks like.

I really love the way it turned out! I created the background using Glimmer Mist and added some more splatters with blue and black, watery ink and the flick of a paint brush.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you're enjoying your week! :)