90th Birthday Card

Dilema - what card to make for a 90th birthday? 

I thought about what he enjoyed and came across these drawings which were freebies with a magazine.  They were perfect, with their old fashioned charm.  The picture on the top right even looked like the intended recipient!

So many lovely pictures, I want to use them all!  I cut them out and used a corner punch to round off the corners neatly and searched around for dies to layer the pictures onto.  In the end I used Spellbinders Labels One and Labels Eight dies.

I found a lovely dusky green card which complemented the pictures and layered them up. Then hunted around for numbers and found these simple shiny gold peel-offs and popped these onto another Label One.

I chose an A4 cream card and started to play with the overall layout, moving the Labels around.  The card definitely needed something extra - flowers.  He continues to enjoy growing flowers as well as a few veg, so I thought I needed a sort of masculine flower if you know what I mean.  Spellbinders Rose Carnation die set was just he right.  Rather than patterned paper, I chose white vellum and held the slightly curved petals together with a green pearl brad.  Hmmm, needs leaves.  Again. Spellbinders to the rescue, these time Foliage.  I chose the large leaflets, which I also embossed.  However, the leaves looked too green next to the white vellum!  So I toned them down with some white chalk, and used this on the other label shapes too, though not as much.

Next I stamped the border with Clarity Stamps, colouring in the blossom tree branch and the robin.  Just had to have that robin somewhere. Whenever I garden, a robin usually comes hopping around after insects and grubs so there are two, one on either side.

Finally the Labels where attached with foam pads for a bit of height, and I almost forgot, the greeting was attached to another Spellbinders die from Fancy Tags Two.

Happy Crafting

Anna x