Happy Birthday, Dad.

 Today is my Dad's birthday.

I made his card using a free set of stamps

off the cover of a magazine.

(Simply cards & Papercraft issue 158)

Both of us love feeding wild birds.

In our gardens we both have Gold Finches.

So I water-coloured this stamp to

depict Gold Finches on Magnolia.

 

On the back of the card, I decided

to make them into Chaffinches.

I have a pair of these in my garden every morning.

For the centre of the card, I picked a

panel of my favourite water coloured card

(Bockingford Hot Press 140lb) 

I buy mine from Curtisward.com

via Ebay as I love the loose sheets.

It is so smooth it stamps beautifully, but

Takes all the water with little warping.

 

 Once the water-coloured panel was dry, I

embossed using a tree design.

I painted the branches brown with water colours.

I used Inktense Pencils for all the colouring.

Finally, I made this card to pop his gift card into.

I applied texture paste through a Crafter's Workshop 

Stencil - Meadow.

                                                      Once Dry, I softly coloured it all.