Happy Birthday Johnny

 

I made a card for the McMahon Five Design Team this week.  And I decided to pick a vintage image and the theme was for a young man’s birthday.  Making cards for guys are a challenge in itself when all we see are beautiful frilly cards for girls.  And having four grandsons I need to make more male cards to have on hand.  All details about how I made the card are below the photos.  Remember if you click on the photos you can get a larger view.

 

Happy Birthday Johnny JPG and PNG

I loaded the image into my imaging program, Paint Shop Pro and colored it using the sepia tone effect.  Then I added a little more Distress using Vintage Photo-Distress ink Pad by Ranger. In addition, I for one love color so I colored a couple of the images with both Paint Shop Pro and Prisma Colored Pencils.  I wanted the cake to stand out so I made my own homemade puff paint by following a recipe I found online.  You take a thick White Glue and add any color acrylic paint. In this case I added white paint.  Then I kept mixing it until it got thick and spread it on the cake. Then I sprinkled blue glitter on the cake and candles.  I also added Diamond Glaze to the cake plate, cake knife, and glasses. The rosette was made using the same background music paper. I distressed the music paper using my Zutter Distrezz-it-All tool

 

Another View of the Front of the card.

 

Here is an inside view of the card.  I used the same music paper like on the front of the card. Except this time instead of distressing the edges I just distressed the paper with Vintage Photo, Distress ink pad.  I cut the paper in two different sizes and stitched the edges using a zig zag stitch. (Click on photo for a more detailed view).  I cut out two circles using the same paper I used to make the card base and front.  I made another rosette using the music paper and distressed it with vintage photo ink also.  Then I cut the sentiment “Happy Birthday” using my Cricut.  And if you know me well I added  Stickles Glitter Glue to various spots on the sentiment.  I have a weakness for Stickles :)

Please visit the McMahon Five Design Store to see all the beautiful digital images created by various artists.

Thank you for stopping by, Fran