Wednesday 5 October 2011

Continental Beer

This week's challenge at Daring Cardmakers was a really fun one so I've had to play along - they want your card to feature foreign languages - http://daringcardmakers.blogspot.com/2011/09/ooh-la-la-and-wunderbar.html


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.


7 comments:

  1. That's such a fun idea =). Great male card!
    (I'm not sure if you meant to include the German word in the top right hand corner ... it would be spelled Prost - without the e)

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  2. but, of course, I still love your card ... and no one will notice =)

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  3. This is such a fun idea and absolutely perfect for The Daring Cardmakers' "Ooh La La and Wunderbar" challenge this week

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  4. Such a fantastic card! I love the kraft and your background paper is awesome, I love the idea! Thank you for the lovely comment you left me too:-)! Hugs Delphine xx

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  5. Fabby card, Tara! Love that sentiment!

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  6. Hi Tara

    These little beer glasses are so useful .. .. you use them really well!!

    Loving the crumpled background very much.

    Love Jules xx

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