Stampscapes -Happy Birthday

Today I am showcasing my son's birthday card. It's hard sometimes to come up with something that is more guy oriented and less cutesy. I opted to try using my stampscapes.

Basically I stamped the scene using Stazon black ink and then went back and used copic markers to give the trees some color and sponged on the rest of the inks for grass and sky. I added dots of gel pen to give highlights to the trees and also to give an idea of flowers.

It's not entirely a birthday feeling kind of card but he loves the outdoors so I thought it might be a nice change to something I normally would give him.

It's Birthday Season!

At least in my house. I realized that I have 2 friends with birthdays in Feb, 1 friend with a birthday in January and then 5 family members all in February so I need to crank out some birthday cards. Of the 8 cards I needed to make 5 are all male. I find those are always a bit more of a challenge. First up is this card I made with my oldest grandson in mind. I figured being 16 he's definitively not going to want some cutesy card, something more on the serious side for him. Using a round dot die from Papertrey Ink and a stitched rectangle die from Simon Says stamp, along with an arrow die cut from QK.