Banging Birthday
My card this week was for a friend’s 60 th birthday. Handily, one of the things he learned to do when he retired was play the drums so Feel The Beat stamp set was perfect. For the background, I started with Parallax stencil and blended grey ink in the centre, fading to the edges. The drummer was stamped and clear heat-embossed in the centre to begin. I’d just finished a red, white and blue project so I think those colours were in my head! I stamped the scribble alternately in red and blue around the edges to make a frame. Pulling the small stamps from a variety of Visible Image’s music themed sets, I stamped and heat-embossed, in either clear or silver powder, these around the frame and the drummer. Using the sentiment from Make Some Noise and the numbers from Birthday Balloons, I stamped them in the same colours as earlier and matted them on black card. These were added to the card using thin foam tape. I used the same small stamps to d...