Jacks birthday

Good Morning everyone

December and January are busy months for birthdays in my family.  These are the 2 cards i made for my brothers birthday this month

While wondering what to do for him, I saw these coffee themed stamps from aall&create in the countryview crafts Christmas advent sale which are perfect as he is a coffee addict for sure. 

A5 card size.  I used soft cream cardstock so its softer than white and stamped in brown ink.  I stamped the coffee cup twice,  one i die cut into the label shape, on the 2nd one I lightly watercoloured the cup with vintage photo and label with twisted citron distress inks, cut out and decoupaged onto the base image with glue gel, putting a curve in the cup. I die cut my card blank using a larger nesting shape and then found 2 pieces of paper in my stash to coordinate, die cut smaller than the base and adhered.  

I splattered some of the vintage photo ink onto the background too. The topper panel i added with foam tape for some dimension.

The stamped image had some flowery words which weren't suitable for my brother so i covered them up with a stamped birthday sentiment die cut into a fish tail banner.  I added some stamped and cut out coffee beans to finish.

Items Used:

aall&create stamps #642 'caffeinated'

stampin up sentiment stamp 'curly cute'

XL nested label die set

Distress inks - vintage photo, walnut stain, twisted citron

Patterned papers

Hammered ivory cardstock

Id love to enter this card in the following:

https://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2024/01/challenge-203-ag-penny-for-your-thoughts.html

https://creativecrafterschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/challenge-72.html

https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/2024/01/january-challenge.html - the stamps are new

https://pammiesinkypinkieschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/01/pip-challenge-2402.html

https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/01/challenge-587-stamp-it.html

https://colorhuesthecolorchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/01/color-hues-79-copper-and-green.html

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and card 2 I made while i was making my building block fold cards in November (see here), i found this fab monochrome paper in my stash which was ideal teamed up with black and white cardstock.

After making the base card from white cardstock, i matted the paper onto black card and then the base.  To add some interest i die cut barbed wire dies from silver holographic mirror cardstock and adhered to the front left edge and back right edge, sadly the photos don't pick up how it dances in the light.

Die cut birthday sentiment from white card, matted onto larger black circle and a bigger white circle and then added to the front

Showing it opened up. I die cut the alphas from white card and the silver holographic and off set them so have the mirror card drop shadow.  Not the best photos as it is much brighter in real life and especially when the light hits the silver holographic mirror card

Items Used:

Memory box alpha die set

Birthday sentiment die

Cheerylynn barbed wire die set

Patterned paper

Black & white card

Silver holographic mirri card

Thank you all for popping by once again.