For The Record

Sharing a birthday guy card today for a friend whose favorite color is orange. 

I made it in the Slimline shape that is currently popular. I've an assortment of  colored #10 Business envelopes, so I've made a few of these over the years. I prefer to cut my card base to be 4" x 9.25", usually.  This is getting mailed, but in a bubble mailer with 2 other cards, so I decided I could get a little dimensional.

Papers: Springhill and SU card stocks, Junkitz patterned papers, vellum, junk mail 

Stamps: My Favorite Things, Avery Elle, My Sentiments Exactly, Cas-ual Fridays

Inks: Memento, Versafine Clair, Versa Magic

Dies: My Favorite Things

Other / Stash Items: Eyelet Outlet musical note brads, washi tapes, enamel dots, edge distressing tool, circle punches, corner rounder

I used week before last's Slimline sketch at Split Coast Stampers. I resized it to 4x9.25" and then rotated it in PSE.  

I've really been getting some good use from this old Junkitz paper collection. I liked how the design I used reminded me of the turntable. I cut a rectangle of vellum, rounded the corners and then inked the edges with some Memento Morocco ink, ran that through my Xyron and adhered to the card as my see-through turntable. I also punch 3 different sized circles out of vellum to adhere behnd the note brads.

I must confess, I've had these stamps and die cuts for a while but have been turned off by the mechanix of assembly. I had to just bite the bullet and jump in to use it and I must say, my hesitation was silly. Very easy to cut and assemble. Hardest part was cutting different papers and finding all the little parts. I used a piece of black glossy junk mail cardboard that I had saved in my Glossy card box. It makes a nice die cut "vinyl" record. That white band in the center where the info is usually printed was stumping me until I remembered I had a Celebrate circle stamp about that size. Perfect! I used some scrap silver gray card to die cut the arm.

Love the piano keys washi paired with the skinny Halloween washi. The colors matched so hey, who cares, I won't tell! lol I tried stamping my sentiments directly on the patterned paper this time and I like the effect! 

The back of the card is pretty straightforward and simple, just a stamped MFT siggie on a piece of the Junkitz.

On the inside I stamped Cas-ual Friday birthday sentiments and keep that simple as well.

And a final view.  I am glad I bought this die along with sentiments, plus 2 other stamp brand versions of this record / player. I am set up well for this theme, lol. Hope you are well, and thanks for visiting! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   Split Coast Stampers Sketch SC825

2.   The Male Room #144: Toys  

3.   Cardz 4 Guys #257: Birthday Card for an Adult Male

4.   Outlawz Twisted Thursdays 11/5-11/11: AG + Twist For Him

5.   NBUS #20: AAG with Never Before Used Schtuff -- First time to use the MFT turntable die and the MFT and Avery Elle stamps.

6.   Creative Fingers #196: AAG (entry #2/3)

7.   Creatalicious Challenge #198: AG -- Option played, though the humor is mild (entry #2/3)

8.   CHNPPC Nov.: AG with PP

9.   More Mixed Media November: AG + Opt. Use Some Black -- Option played!

10. Paper Girls #211: Photo Inspiration -- I used ALL the colors