It is my dad's birthday next week and I wanted to make a card for him. Now, my problem is that I don't own a 'male' type stamp set from Stampin' Up! - unless you count Crab & Co or Unfrogettable. Yes, I guess I could have used them and made a fun card but I wanted something more sophisticated. I guess I will have to invest in more SU! stamps (oh no!!). LOL Anyway, I had to partly take my SU! hat off and I turned to my next favourite company Papertrey Ink. If you remember back to February, I won the PTI competition to be the PTI Apprentice. The stamps were released in April and this is one of them. Can you believe that it has taken me this long to crack open the box!! Mind you, the first delivery from the States went AWOL (it is somewhere in post land) so poor Nichole kindly sent me another package (which I got). Ok, so I opened up the box - now what?! My mind went blank - zippo! So, I turned to the PTI team for inspiration. I looked at Taylor's blog and found exactly what I was looking for! Hooray!! So this card is totally a Taylored Expressioncreation. Obviously Taylor's card looks much, much better than mine but I learned how to 'colour' today which I am so pleased with. Normally my colouring is rubbish but I have impressed myself today. Everything on the card (except the stamps) are SU! Hope my dad likes his birthday card and it puts a smile on his face. He is still in pain from his operation (over a week ago) and his huge bruise is just starting to fade so hopefully he will be back to his normal self soon. I guess after having 6 stents put in, you are bound to be sore!! Happy Crafting,Here is my colouring up close. Better than my 'usual' colouring but I still have lots to learn! You can see the outline around the whole of the tree I did in 'going gray' crayon. I know that the 'Copic' markers are the ants pants at the moment in the USA or is that in the stamping industry? but I don't own any and I'm not sure I will (in the foreseeable future) so I used my SU! markers and crayons.
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Supplies
Stamps: PTI - Father Knows Best.
Ink: Versafine - Vintage Sepia.
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Brocade Background DSP.
Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Old Olive Brads.