A bday card for myself...hmmm..hubby asks me every year "I need a birthday card, can you make one?" Well, you know I can..who for? "You". Right...I'm not making my own birthday card so you can give it to me, lol. But now Wendy wants us to make one for ourselves. This won't be for me, but it's one I'd like The upside down owl would be me, Pop w/ the stern look, the brother would actually be my sis (who was a goody two shoes & wouldn't have been caught hanging upside down), Mom w/ her "talk to your father" look.
I wanted a night time look, since owls are mostly nocturnal, so I started with a piece of textured navy card stock. The owls & branches were stamped first with Memento, colored with Copics, over stamped with Versafine, then die cut w/ the matching dies. I used a series of circle dies to cut out the circle for the “moon” & the white ring around it. The moon, the Flourished Vine, Happy Birthday & largest yellow layer were sponged because I didn’t have the color of yellow I wanted.
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups, Copic colors & the inside are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Friday, September 4, 2015 GMT Views: 670
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Fri, Sep 04, 2015 @ 11:27 AM
My DH wouldn't ask me to make one.......but for others he does! I'm always happy to comply. I have asked him to make me one, but NOOOOOOOOO!
I love your owls in the night and all the extra flourishes. That's you!!
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
What a fun card, Julie! I love your owl family, and how you relate to them! Your coloring is always so nice! I find it oddly humorous that your DH wants you to make your own BD card--they certainly think differently!
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Fri, Sep 04, 2015 @ 5:51 PM
I love how each of your cute owls has a personality! Such a fun card. My husband has actually taken a card that I made and put into recycling because it didn't work, and gave that to me!!!