This is birthday week at my house with both my adult son & daughter having birthdays. Happy birthday today to our wonderful son Chris!
Chris is an avid outdoorsman so The Wilderness Awaits is ideal for his birthday card. Because it is a masculine card, I kept it fairly simple. The elk is stamped with Timber Brown Staz On Ink on Watercolor Paper.
Using an Aqua Painter with Soft Suede, Crumb Cake & Early Espresso Inks, the elk becomes almost lifelike. The image is cut out with an Oval Framelit and the edges are inked for some added dimension.
The Oval piece is popped up on a piece of Soft Sky Cardstock that has been embossed with the Boho Chic Embossing Folder. The sentiment from Fabulous Four is stamped in Early Espresso Ink on Soft Sky Cardstock.
Of course, I just had to share a picture of Chris with his boys.
And, I couldn't resist a picture from a hike they took last summer. Thanks to his wife Jamie for being the photographer.
But, I did find a picture of the whole family.
Thanks for stopping by my blog today!
Hugs,
Ginger
Great masculine card, especially for an outdoors man! Your watercoloring is awesome. Cute family, too!
Enjoyed the card and the pictures.
Love the blue background! You have convinced me I need to get this stamp! Loved your card but hard to believe how fast the years have gone for Chris to be in his 40’s!
Nice card!! The details you did to make the elk look real is outstanding! The pictures are precious!
Love the smiling faces! The card is great. Love that rich blue embossed background. I love your coloring too! I kept this simple since both comments didn’t take yesterday and we will see If this works. Weird how the POST tab just disappears on me!