Birthday Bomb

Happy Monday!  Can you believe the weekend is over already??  I spent most of mine in bed with this yucky sinus thing...it just won't give up!  It sure makes doing much of anything difficult these days!
Today I have a project I designed a couple of weeks ago.  I love the grungy feel to it...check it out:

Masculine birthday card featuring the Bombs Away Birthday stamp set, as well as Gorgeous Grunge, Clockworks and Off The Grid.

I kind of went a little crazy with this one!  I used stamps from four different sets, but love the result!

 

I know I typically give you a run-down of how to recreate my projects, but today I am just feeling too darned crummy.  I hope you'll forgive me.  Here is a peek at the inside...

 Have a good week everyone.  I am hoping this week will see the end of this illness for me!  Enough is enough already!!  Time to start feeling better and get back to normal :)

Classic Birthday

Happy Monday...I hope you had a great weekend!  Last Friday was my wonderful husband's 43rd birthday and in honour of his love of vinyl records, I made him this card:

Birthday card featuring the Bombs Away Birthday photopolymer stamp set (133411)

The card was a hit!  He loved it!!  Here are some quick tips for recreating it:

• The records were cut with the Circles Collection framelits.  To get the grooves, I nested the smaller-sized circles inside the larger one, but flipped them over so that the cutting edge was facing away from the paper.  When you run it through the Big Shot you get a die cut circle with embossed "grooves"...easy peasy!
• The music-patterned DSP is from the Modern Medley pack.
• I used the Chevron TIEF on the red background panel and then trimmed along the pattern with my paper snips to get the chevron edges.
• The stars are punched using my long-retired star punches...the smallest one is from the still-available Merry Minis punch pack.
• The sentiment panel is die cut using the Chalk Talk framelits.

 And here's a shot of the Birthday Boy:

Happy Birthday, Hon!