You mean the world to me

Good morning all, can you believe it's March already ?? I also cannot believe that my baby brother is 37 today 😲, where does the time go lol. 

Today's card is one I made for my brother from Mum, (I added the Son sentiment after taking the photo's).

I used a new background stamp for this card from Hero Arts, called Map of the World BG. I stamped it with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with White Fine Detail Embossing Powder from Simon Says Stamp.

I wanted the card to look aged, a bit like an old map, so I used Distress Inks in, Vintage Photo, Antique Linen and Tea Dye, and blended them all over the embossed image.

Then I stamped a sentiment from an old Creative Expressions stamp set, onto Kraft card, heat embossed it with the same white powder and then spent ages trying to decide where to put it !

In the end I decided to cut the sentiment up and spread it across the map. 

Then I added the whole thing to a Kraft card blank and it was all finished.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

World Map

Good morning all, hope you are well today. This is the card that I made for D for his birthday on Saturday from Alan and me. 

D and his girlfriend Staci, love to travel, so I decided to go with a map theme. I got the image from Google images, a copyright free image of a world map. I saved it and re-sized it to suit an A5 card blank.

I printed it twice, and cut sections of the 2nd one out to decoupage with. I just picked a few random places to give it a bit of interest. 

I made up the sentiment for across the bottom and finished it on the inside. It reads, "For your birthday, we wanted to give you the whole world.... but unfortunately you will have to make do with this card instead!"

Then I added a 'Son' die cut to finish it off. D loved it, hope you like it too.

Take care, see you soon.

xxx