A Hipster Birthday

Good morning and happy  Friday, welcome to the weekend. For my second 'anything but cute' piece for Country View Crafts I knew exactly what I needed - a 'man' card. Is it just me or are these getting harder and harder to make? Anyway, here it is.

 Again it seems to be pretty much a Tim Holtz goodies creation, so I'll put all the links at the end of the post.

 I made a Distress Oxide background, a colour at a time, drying between each colour to try and avoid making brown. This is layer 1.

 And this is layer 2 with some background stamping and white paint spatters. I'm getting a bit braver now with my spatters, I used to be very delicate, but now I get straight in there!

 Next I cut out some bits with Thinlits Mixed Media dies, and painted and stapled on some thin wooded circles. The 'boom' has been stamped and embossed in white, then a white circle drawn arround it. I must remember to clean my circle die.These come in really handy for drawing around as you can see where you are going rather than having it over the top of your paper, but then I forget to clean them....

 I do like how these colours look together, I actually got out my colour wheel to make sure they would work together, and it was well worth turning out my junk drawer (number 1) to find it.

Next I cut a frame out of chipboard so that it was nice and chunky, then embossed it with a script embossing folder.  I painted it with black gesso, then went over with silver gilding wax.  The handsome guy has been stamped onto watercolour paper and coloured with Distress Markers.

 Looking very handsome in his frame.

 I've woven some silver metalic thread arround the wooden hoop to give it some nice texture.

Then added a simple sentiment and a bit of white pen to finish it all off. I even put an insert in straight away - it's a new years resolution to be more organised. It'll never last lol.

I'm entering Mr Handsome into the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge Grunge It Up and also the
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, Make Your Own Background

There's still a little time to join in with our challenge, so put away all things cute and give it a go. Have a great weekend, and thanks very much for looking xx

Supplies

Watercolour card

Distress Oxides

Distress Markers

Newsprint & Type TH Stamp

Hipster Stamps

Hipster Chimp Die

Crazy Thoughts Stamps

Halftone & Rings Stamps

Simple Sayings Stamps

Mixed Media Thinlits

Ornate Frame Die