I've made a card for a friends birthday - and as you can guess - he's partial to a beer ;-) I've used my Stampin up! Cheers set again on kraft and coloured with 3 shades of yellow copics. I've paper-pieced the foam with plain white card. To make my background - and this is where my foreign words come in - I've typed up "Cheers" in as many foreign languages as I could find on the internet (sorry if some don't read right in your language, you can never quite trust the internet!) and then aged it. I crumpled the paper, uncrumpled it and then inked it with aged mahogany distress ink very roughly - now I've never been much good at distressing until I look the online techniques class by Jennifer McGuire - to get the effect I have here I used her tip - I didn't care how well I got the ink on, I just spritzed the hell out of it with water with some pearl powder in it and dried it with my heat gun - perfect inky agedness for the first time ever! I finished with a strip of black card behind and a matching strip cut to the shape of a ribbon and white embossed with the cheers to you sentiment from the set and a tiny PTI Happy Birthday.
I am also entering this into One Stop Craft Challenge as it nicely fits there theme for this week which is "Just for Men" http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/10/week-151-just-for-men.html and it fits our theme at St Luke's too which is also Just for Men.
