Darren loves reading so this large Sheena Douglass stamp was perfect! I stamped with black Versafine and embossed with clear powder then coloured the books with Promarkers and stamped little sentiments on the book spines and added a few little gold hearts. I think I added some gold embossing too here and there. The backgrounds are stamped with a Sheena crackle stamp to age everything along with a bit of distress ink. The hexagons are cut from pages of an old (and falling to bits) crime novel - Darren's favourite style of book. They are cut with sizzix dies and the little wooden hearts are from my stash. The large one was already red and the small ones I coloured with a Promarker.
Please pop over to Artful Times for a peek, it will be well worth it and they would love your support!
Have a lovely evening and thank you so much for visiting! Take care. Christine xxx
13 comments:
It is a fabulous stamp from Sheena and I love how you coloured the books. The hexagons look great too. Hugs, Anne xx
Brilliant card Chris, love that stamp.....think i might have to treat myself!
hugs Jo x
I'm glad you remembered this, Christine, because it's worth sharing with all of us! It's a brilliant design and I think it's so cool how you personalized the books for Darren's birthday! Hugs, Darnell
Terrific idea for a card for a man Chris
Love Chrissie x
Fab card Christine I love how you personalised the spines of the book. Susan x
Wonderful designed collage card, I like it.
I wish you a great day,
hugs Anja
That's a great stamp and pairing it up from old crime novel pages was brilliant. Excellent card!
I like how you made sure we knew the book was falling apart so we didn't think you'd sacrifice a real live book for this project.
I love this to bits Chris!
Your coloring, the design!
just so beautiful and I also love the vintage feel ;)
Thank you~
Great stamp layout make wodnerful card, very nice! TFS.
This is just so creative, Chris ... and such a great design ... I love how you've taken your sentiment down the spines of the books ... brilliant! Anita :)
No clue how I missed this Chris its a fab card! what a great design lots of huggles Sue xxx
A fabulous birthday card. We have too many books in our house ... haven't yet been able to leave hard copies and try electronic ones! Jx
A thousand apologies Chris. No excuses to offer, I have just lost my head this past week or two.
Love the card you made, and what a lovely idea to write things on the spines of the book.
Thanks for entering our challenge - I promise to try to be better in future.
Hugs, Neet xx
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