09 January 2022

70th birthday

 Hi Everyone, my card today was for our, now retired, Illustrious Leader of The Male Room. It was so sad to have Jane step down to do other things and hopefully enjoy "old age". I shall miss her. 

I stamped and embossed, in silver, the floral image and coloured it in Distress Inks, I decided to go pale, as it was a Winter birthday. I then stamped it again and fussy cut the flower shape, which I added onto the opposite side, with a die cut 70 added to it. A few dots of silver Stickles and 3D glaze onto the 70, the addition of a stamped sentiment on a die cut shape.
stamp - Stamps by Me
inks - Distress Inks
number die - lost it's packet (sorry, could be First Edition) 
sentiment stamp and die - Julie Hickey
Stickles - silver
3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze


hopefully you can see the embossing clearer in this photo

Jane is also a collector of ATC's, so as a Team, it was decided to send her an ATC also. This is the first time I have made an ATC, I hope she likes it.

I stamped the Post Box, text and sentiment. I stencilled the clouds and the Post Box. I shaded around the edge of the ATC, then placed it into an embossing folder of a Post Card, inking over it to bring out the details.
Post Box stamp - Chocolate Baroque
sentiment - magazine freebie
cloud stencil - Funky Fossil
 diamond stencil - mag freebie by Ranger Wendy Vecchi
Post Card embossing folder - Crafters Companion
butterfly stamp - mag freebie
inks - Distress Inks
button - stash



 

22 comments:

Janette said...

Faith your card is so pretty and the soft colours are perfect. The ATC is lovely, only ever made the round ones which was a nice change I must confess.xx

Beebeebabs said...

Beautiful work as always - thanks for sharing!!!

Maria said...

Such a lovely card and ATC for Jane! The card is so pretty with the beautiful blue flowers! How sweet to add the number to a flower on the side of the card! I hope Jane has a wonderful 70th birthday!

crafty-stamper said...

Absolutely beautiful card love the pastel coloured embossed image -great textured ATC
Carol x

Rosemary said...

beautiful birthday card and atc, faith. i know your friend jane will love both of them.

Pat K said...

Happy New Year Faith. Beautiful pastel card and great job on your first ATC. xx

cuilliesocks said...

A beautiful birthday card Faith, I love the floral image and the really pretty colours and your little card is fabulous, lovely colours too, Kate x

Carol L said...

What a lovely way to celebrate a milestone birthday with such a pretty card! Love the embossing and sneaky little "70" inserted into the flower :) The ATC is so cool and I've never made one either, but I'm sure Jane will enjoy her send-off with such pretty crafts!

Liz said...

Such a beautiful card and ATC Faith, I'm sure they were both appreciated. xx

Aimeslee Winans said...

Lovely and classy, Faith. And your ATC will be loved. You're a natural! The heat embossing on the card flowers does indeed show up and sparkles! Oops, you spilled a lil fairy dust! Hope you have a good week! xoxo

cotnob said...

They are both very pretty Faith, lovely pastel colours.
Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
x

Shirley Young said...

Both are beautiful Faith, I love the pastel colours of the card and the subtle 70. Pleased to see you have found my blog again xx

Nancy said...

Your card is beautiful, Faith! I love the touch of sparkle! I really like your ATC too. It's fabulous! I see more of them in your future! :o)

Vicky Hayes said...

I was sad to see Jane stepping down from her DTs too but hopefully she is delighted to have a load of time for more fun!! Such a beautiful card and ATC for her. Vicky x

Karen Dunbrook said...

beautiful cards...the first one is so cheerful and happy and the embossed one...what a super cool eb folder is that!
xx Karen

Shona Erlenborn said...

Loving the pastel shades of that gorgeous birthday card. Great job on your first ATC too! So fun!

Mac Mable said...

What a beautiful card for Jane, so thoughtful and so very pretty x. Clever how you incorporated her age. Fabulous ATC too Faith x.

Greta said...

Love the design & colors for Jane's card--beautiful! The ATC is very artsy & so pretty!

Sarn said...

Absolutely LOVELY birthday card and a super ATC. Great idea.

Hugs, Sarn xxx

Linby said...

oh Jane will be missed at TMR. This is a lovely card you made for her as is the ATC - something I have never made either.

Kathy D. said...

I love how you embossed the whole thing at the end. very cool!

Helen F. said...

Pretty card, the pastel colored flowers are simply perfect.