Sunday 6 July 2014

July Birthdays ...

July is a busy month in our family for birthdays (including mine!!) fortunately I have quite a stock of suitable cards to cover most of them for once I have been quite organised.  However, my favourite brother* has a special birthday at the end of this week and it has taken some thinking about to come up with an appropriate card.  Having spent most of the week procrastinating over the design I had a bit of a breakthrough yesterday and this is it:




I used:

Distress Inks - Vintage Photo, Rusty Hinge, Tea Dye and Spiced Marmalade
Stampin Up - Off the Grid and Gorgeous Grunge.
Scrabble Tiles

This week the "Less is More" challenge is to use Earthtone Colours - as I've used these colours I will enter the challenge.

Enjoy!

* I should come clean - I only have one brother!!

13 comments:

  1. Fabulous card. Love the grunge but the scrabble tiles are genius. I always to refer to my only son as `number one son` lol.
    Lynne xxx

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  2. What a great idea for a card! My Dad would have loved this!

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  3. That's a fab card ......... love the aperture, decorations and scrabble pieces !!

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  4. What a clever card. I love the idea of using the scrabble tiles in this way. A perfect card for a person who is sixty.
    Julia

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  5. This is fab Elaine - I love the way the Scrabble tiles peep through the aperture!

    Sharon
    x

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  6. Elaine what a fab card for your brother, love this!
    Thank you for joining us at Less is More
    Anne
    LIM Designer

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  7. Brilliant idea and fabulous card Elaine
    Margaret x

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  8. elaine this is so clever... love it!
    Thanks for joining us this week
    Jen xx
    Less Is More

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  9. What a fun and unique way to use the scrabble letters Elaine.
    Really cool and great use of the earth colours too.
    Thanks so much for sharing and taking part.
    Sarah xx
    Less is More

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  10. A brilliant card. The background stamping is great.

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  11. I'm one of the July clan too Elaine!
    This is terrific design, I'm sure it will be greatly appreciated!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    "Less is More"

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  12. I'm sure your "favourite" brother will love this - I k now I do, clever idea to cut out the aperture too

    Kathyk

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