Hi all,

I hope that you are enjoying some wonderfully crafty time?

Today I am sharing a card that I made for my Granddads’ Birthday  🙂

Male birthday card using some Lawn fawn stamp and die sets.

For the base of this card, I had found a 6” x 12” piece of blue cor’dinations cardstock – I love this Blue – and decided it was going to be my card base. This automatically determined the colour scheme and the size for me – 6” x 6” square.

I then looked through my papers to pick  a patterned design that included the Blue and also some other bright colours. I saw this spotty design and  I knew it would be perfect!

I wanted to add some further texture to the card base but did not want it to clash with – or overwhelm – the patterned paper panel. I chose to do some tone on tone stamping with a large border stamp and an ink in a similar colour to the base card. I covered the entire card front.

Once I did this, I thought then, that the patterned paper panel needed some extra defining to the edges. So, I got out my paper scrap wallet and delved in, finally choosing a perfect bright yellow to match some of the spotty dots.

Close up of the patterned paper, background stamping and yellow border.

For the focal image of my card I had decided to use a Lawn fawn stamp set called  ‘Love you Tons’ – the set also has matching dies.

I stamped the two elephants with Memento: Tuxedo Black ink as I planned to colour them with my pro-markers. Once I had them ready I die cut them and placed them onto my card.  At this point I wanted to add some ‘ground’ for them to be placed on. I decided to use vellum so that the pattern on the paper still showed through. This still grounds the layout without dominating the scheme..

I then chose to add some tiny die cut hearts in a smooth silver glitter paper. I wanted to use heart sequins or stickers but I didn’t have any in my stash!

Die cut hearts and stamped sentiments.

Finally I stamped the sentiment onto the vellum and also heat embossed granddad onto the card top.

Of course that wasn’t the end of the process I also decorated inside of the card and the envelope:

Card interior all stamped and ready 🙂

I hope that  you have enjoyed todays share,

As always: Take Care and Happy Crafting!!

Jenny x