Enjoy 17 Theo

Another teen birthday card - great fun to make.  The main card is an A4 kraft card folded in half.  Tim Holtz tissue tape is applied diagonally in stripe patter across the whole thing.  The boy is Paper Artsy (I think! - I have lost the packaging again) stamped in blue, cut out and mounted on a piece of shiny black card with metallic markers puddled on it and allowed to dry.  This piece mounted on white and then mounted on top of a blue piece stamped in dark blue versamagic ink with the other stamp from this set, one of the stamps says 'if people did not do silly things sometimes, nothing intelligent would ever get done'  - very neat! This piece is mounted onto white card.  The kraft text pieces are edged in dark blue versamagic ink ; the 17 is a rub on and the other words were done using an alphabet stamp set.  The flourish is a Tim Holtz sizzix die called Elegant Flourishes.  I hope you like it :)

Melt art fairy

This is done using Dawn Bibby's melt art technique, which is great fun to do. You need to cut a piece of non stick craft mat to fit inside the melt pot, and put the UTEE on top of it so when it melts you can stamp into it and remove it reasonably easily in one piece.  It has feathery edges and is such a great technique.  This is what I have done here with the Crafty Individuals fairy stamp.  I have stamped again on blue card and white embossed, and mounted the UTEE piece over that after tearing the edges.  The main card which is a scalloped edge square Craftwork Cards card has been stamped in dark blue versamagic and embossed in clear ink.  The white paper flowers are finished with buttons ties with dark blue thread.  This technique is on Dawn Bibby's DVD Stamps, Stickers & Stencils, it's such a great DVD with lots of demos.  I hope you like the card :)