Clearly Besotted - Happy Birthday Husband

Today I have a card that I made using a variety of products from Clearly Besotted Stamps and one Avery Elle die. 

• Clearly Besotted - Birthday word die
• Clearly Besotted - Typed Alphabet stamp set
• Clearly Besotted - Mini Bunting Die Collection
• Avery Elle - Elle-ments - Simply Said Happy Die
• Docrafts - Papermania - Textured coloured card stock
• Trimcraft - Wooden Alphabet stamps

Now I don't have a husband, but this was made for my grandad from my nan. His birthday was a while ago so I'm okay to be posting this :P 

I attempted to make this card quite masculine so took a green/blue colour palette. I cut out several of the bunting dies and stamped out "HUSBAND", with one letter on each one, I then attached them to an ordinary piece of gardeners twine and strung them across the front of the card.

The rest of the greeting was created by using the two word dies and cutting them out of some lime green card stock. the "to my" was then stamped in black ink using some small alphabet stamps. 

Thanks for reading :)

Avery Elle Challenge #22: Stripes

Hello there and today I have a birthday card I made for a good friend of mine, so hopefully she doesn't see this before I give it to her :P

I cut out 3 balloon shapes from some striped paper using the Avery Elle Balloons Elle-ments. The sentiment is also from an Avery Elle stamp set called Cake & Candles. 

I adhered these some some dark woodgrain paper from Amy Tangerine Cut & Paste 12x12 paper pad and drew in the balloon strings with a black pen. 

I then added some enamel dots around the sentiment to make it stand out.

I am also entering this card in the Avery Elle Challenge #22: Stripes.

Thanks for reading!