Friday, 9 March 2012

Hubby's Birthday Card

Here I am again with my third and final post today. Please scroll down for all cards, storage and a winner.

This is the card I made for Hubby's Birthday yesterday. He often gets cute teddies but as he really likes this style of card I thought I would do something very different this year. It's an 8 x 8 card which gave me plenty of scope for embellishing. The background paper is some of my fave Tim Holtz Shabby Vintage. I've gone for a distressed look with DIs and sanded Core'dinations. I've used various Tim Holtz stamps from the journey set, TH on the edge die and sprocket gears, some magic mesh and Marianne scroll die and Sizzix scroll corner die. The grungy postcard is a Lili of the Valley stamp with Happy Birthday handwritten.

Here's a close up of the tag, which uses 3 of the stamps. Wise words.

I would like to enter this into the text me challenge at Stamptacular and Birthday card with a sentiment at Birthday Sundaes.

18 comments:

Mrs O crafty blog said...

I love this look.. Tim Holtz truly has some wonderful products and you've done a great job with them:) px

julie_woolston said...

Great Card Marianne, your Husband must have been very pleased with it.

Hugs Julie x

Lindsay Craftymonster81 said...

Oh wow! This is stunning Marianne, I really love the layout and all of the different elements that you have used, really fantastic
Lindsay xx

craftysue49 said...

Fab card ...Love the vintage look..Im sure he will be chuffed to bits .

Sue x

Jan said...

Gorgeous cards he will love it xx Jan

Sandra H said...

Marianne, this is gorgeous xx

downrightcrafty said...

Hi Marianne, bet he loved this, great papers and love the tag and the cogs
Hugs Kate xx

Crafty Mamma Mia said...

Great card Marianne - perfect for a man! I'm sure your hubby loved it. Helen x

Vicky said...

So gorgeous Marianne...:o)

big hugs Vicky xx

Berry said...

Stunning work Marianne love the vintage feel bet he loved it hugs rebekah xx

Sue said...

Fab card Marianne,love all the elements of it.
Sue x

Jill said...

Hi Marianne, great card again. Jill x

Lisa Jane said...

Oh its beautiful... i bet he will love it!
Lisa x

Arline said...

Great card hun! Style is fab!x

Jackie said...

Fantastic card, and I love the sentiment :o)
Jackie xx

coops said...

stunning card marianne.i love the fab cogs and vintage car :D

xx coops xx

Heleen said...

Great card! Thanks for joining us at stamptacular sunday and I wish you luck on the challenge. Hope we see you soon again at stamptacular.

Hugs,
Heleen

Lynsey said...

Hi Marianne,this is a fantastic card! I bet Graham loved it.
Hugs Lynsey x