Enjoy the Ride, Make some Noise!

A friend of mine asked if I could make a card for her son's 30th birthday.  Her son plays the guitar and is an amateur bike rider, so I used my silhouette to cut out a guitar shape from this bike patterned paper. I then used the negative as the basis for a shaker card.

I bought some new die sets at the recent Luxembourg Expo Creative, so I used them here to spell out his name and age from red card stock, and added glossy accents for impact. The dies are from a Dutch company called Craft Emotions, and I bought the Uppercase Alpha, Lowercase Alpha and Numbers (and lots of others besides).  So many times I have wanted to add names or numbers to bunting and the characters have hung over the edges.  

The computer generated sentiment on the inside reads and I used this Frantic Stamper Bicycle to reinforce it.

I'll be  entering in Darnell's  NBUS Challenge 10, though I haven't used any option with this card

Challenge #53 at the Male Room has the Challenge numbers so I'll be entering there

This is the Cue card for CASology Week 234 so I'll be entering there.  I wish I was still 30 !!! 

My favourite challenge this week though, has to be Challenge #CFC166 at CAS-ual Fridays.  Not only does my card feature a guitar, it's a percussion instrument as well thanks to all those little beads inside!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you were inspired.  Thanks especially if you take the time to leave a comment, not only do they make my day, but they allow me to return the favour!!!

Kate

Not your typical wedding card!

Not your typical wedding card but then the invitation came by way of tea towel so I've tried to be a bit quirky.  

The tea towel was printed in a light teal colour so I have tried to match it or at least tone in with it.  The top of the tea towel has bunting and announces the names of the intended, while the bottom features a bicycle built for two along with the line of that song.  

Well the bunting was easy, I cut several bunting flags using the Spellbinders Nested Pennants, and spelt out CONGRATS using the Wplus9 Folk Art Alphabet die.

The bicycle built for two was a bit harder.  I have a bike stamp but not one built for two and it's a little small.  In the end I borrowed this Crafty Individuals stamp from my good friend Lena.  It's actually perfect because as ballet dancers for the Australian Ballet the young couple have danced at many of the big cities mentioned in this montage stamp and the postage mark which unfortunately is partially obscured by bunting is from Melbourne - their home town.  Andrew is flying down under tomorrow night for the wedding along with sons #2 and #3.  I'm staying here and making sure son #1 doesn't get up to too much mischief.

I used Mojo Monday's Sketch 301 for inspiration and would you believe missed the deadline again.  Oh well it is a great sketch isn't it.