Have A Rockin' Birthday

My daughter asked if I would make a card for her new boyfriend,

a twenty-something man.

Me:  "Really? I'll give it a go then......."

I knew what stamp set I wanted to use since 

he played guitar in a band at one time.

This is what I came up with.

He hasn't been given it yet,

so I don't know if it'll get a seal of approval 

- by him or my daughter!

The stamp set is an oldie by Inkadinkado, Rock Star. 

( I bought this stamp set years ago to make a card 

for my daughters birthday; she was starting to get into

listening to music at that time. Here I am using it

for her boyfriend now, kind of neat!)

I simply stamped several images onto white card stock

with black ink then die cut them into squares with the guitar 

being on a rectangle. I ran the edges of the piece with the 

guitar on it along the top of the black ink pad.

Each was backed with black card stock.

I used my much neglected mini square paper punch

and Crystal Effects to create faux square brads.

They are glued in the corners of the guitar piece.

It was then mounted above the square pieces

with dimensionals/pop dots. 

There is a music clef background embossed 

on the white layer. That was a bit tricky to make,

it could only make one pass through my Big Shot

then I had to use a stylus to fill in the missing portions.

The portions embossed with the stylus aren't nearly as crisp

as those done with the embossing folder, but it worked well

enough since too much of it doesn't show anyway.

This is a 5x7 card and my embossing folder is only 4x5.

This is actually my second attempt at it ;) 

All of these layers are glued to black textured card stock. 

I printed out 

Wishing You A Rockin' Birthday

to put inside. 

I'm entering my rockin' birthday card in the new challenge 

at Use Your Stuff, squares.

I have die cut squares and faux square brads.

Thanks for looking =)