Birthday Boy

On of my sons turned 10 this week and it feels a little bit like we have been celebrating for four days! I made him a card combining my new colouring skills and some lovely Stampin' Up! DSP from three seasons ago (Sweet Pea Designer Pack).

It is really hard making cards for boys who fall into that in between gap - 9-14 because they aren't into the usual things that little boys love and they haven't yet gradutated to the stuff that the lads seem to enjoy so I have picked an image from Some Odd Girl which is possibly a little immature but kinda made it more mature by tying it in with the words from the new Stampin' Up! set Animal Talk which will come out with the new cattie in three sleeps!

For the 10 I used the Timelss Junior Alphabet Sizzlet Dies - which are retired now and actually all sold out )-: and ran it through the Big Shot about 4-5 times for each number using Real Red cardstock.  I then glued the numbers one on top of the other to make the number thicker and used Crystal Effects to seal and shine the whole thing.

Cardstock colours used includes Whisper White, Not Quite Navy (yum one of my favourite colours), Old Olive and Real Red.

I coloured the little boy and puppy at my third coloring class. . . I am improving. . . slowly. . . but I never realised how hard it was to work out where "light" is coming from or shining onto in an image and where the shadow needs to go!

See you soon,
Shanni xx