Hi friends! Last week was SO busy. Gosh. Christmas is coming at me at lightning speed. Can we hit the pause button so I can catch up for a minute?! Are you feeling that way too? There are just so many fun things to do this time of year and I want to do everything!! Happy Monday!! I have something different and fun to share with you today! It's a birthday card I made for my husband! He just celebrated his 60th birthday!! Gosh, we are both kinda freaking out about it…. I met him when he was 30! How does that much time go by so quickly?? Jeez!! He is a pretty low key sort of guy so he didn't want a lot of fanfare… We enjoyed some fun activities together over the weekend to celebrate him! I made him a vintage inspired card (since now he's vintage) using lots of cool Tim Holtz supplies!! I almost always grab my TH supplies when making masculine cards. Especially the Blueprints stamps….
The finished card is a 5×7 card base made from kraft, then layered with black and cream. I kept the color palette muted and masculine using kraft, grey, black and gold.
I started by stamping the background panel using the mini blueprints of some of his favorite things: cameras, party hats, stars and skulls…. I used grey ink to make the background more muted. Then I stamped some of the same icons in black and cut them out by hand. I used gold metallic watercolor paint to paint on the icons.
I used Tim Holtz Label Stickers for the sentiments… I think they look cool and graphic. I used black and gold splatters for this card.
Here are some of my supplies as I was laying out my card idea. The number dies have been in my stash forever – they are Papertrey Ink By The Numbers. Unfortunately they are discontinued now. I used gold paper layered with black paper for the numbers.
I attached a strip of vintage text paper across the card. Then I layered the icons around the numbers….
I used a large jump ring to hang a little camera charm from the bottom of the zero…
The last step was to add a few mirrored stars, since he is my super star!!
Hope you're doing great today!! I'll be back soon with some more Christmas projects!! Thank you SO MUCH for shopping my affiliate links! I am SO GRATEFUL and it makes a huge difference to me!! I think I will have enough stash to do another giveaway in January!! I hope that sounds good to you too. Take care!! XOXO
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