Rock Out on Your Birthday!

 Hey there! Hope everyone's doing well. We're heating back up after a week of very mild temps due to overcast skies and rain. If it would just keep alternating, that would be sweet, lol. Hope the heat isn't too bad wherever you are. 

I have a birthday guy card to share today using a Dr. Digi digital image "The Rolling Gnomes". The stamp company is British so I'm guessing this could be part snarky commentary on old rocker geezers past their prime and that is indeed snark-worthy. But around MY part of the world, these guys are very reminiscent of "That Li'l Old Band from Texas". They really look so much like ZZ Top that I made it for a ZZ fan and he saw it right away, too! lol 😉

  

I used SplitCoastStampers SC257, resizing it to 5x7 in PSE. The card base and all patterned papers are from Basic Grey's Lucky collection. I printed out the image on Springhill Digital card and colored it with Promarkers. I accented the coloring with my colored pencils and metallic gel pens. I colored the floor with shimmery Mocha Smooch ink and added glittery splotches in the air with Goldrush Smooch Glitz.

I distress-edged the patterned papers with a tool, but not the solid red base and mats. I used a Spellbinders A7 Renaissance Jubilee Label die for the center upper and lower triangles in the middle of the sketch. I added 4 MFT Photo Corner dies cut out of the red to each edge of the image. I hand-stamped MFT sentiments to the image with Nocturne Versafine Clair.

Inside I matted with more BG yellow print and then cut another Spellbinders label and stamped MFT and Uniko sentiments with the VF Clair. Before adhering I colored the edge with a Promarker.

On back, more paper and a Kaiserkraft siggie stamped in Versamark and heat-embossed in gold on another Spellbinders Label die cut. I colored in the words and surrounding stitching with a white gel pen.

Here is a close-up of the shimmer and glitter. In addition to the sky and floor, the mic, belt buckles, drum nails and guitar have metallic glitter gel penning.

And a final view. Thanks so much for stopping in and I hope you have a good week coming up! Until next time, stay well and craft on!! xoxo

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   SplitCoastStampers Sketch SC257

2.   Outlawz Twisted Thursdays 7/1-7/14: AG Only -- #1/2 Twist not played this time.

3.   AllSorts Challenge Week 632: Masculine -- #1/3

4.   Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 26: AG with Colouring -- #1/2  Dr. Digi focal image is colored with Promarkers, and accented with colored pencils and gel pens

5.   CCEE2127: DOTSY's Birthday -- D: Drum, Distressed edge, glitter Dots; O: Orange shirt, "Rock Out On"; T: "Treat"; S: Song/Singer, Stripes, Silver mic; Y: Yellow paper

6.   ABMTTC #142: AAG

7.   ABMTTC Xtra July: AAG

8.   I Love Promarkers #439: Anything Goes Only -- #1/3 Option not played this time. Focal colored with ProMarkers.

9.   Fab n Funky #531: Anything Goes -- #1

10. 613 Avenue Create #7 July 2021: AG -- #1/8 Optional Twist not played this time

11. A Place To Start #7 July 2021: Craft Your Fave Holiday/Celebration -- #1/8 Birthdays is one of them!

12. Scrapping 4 Fun #196: Birthdays! -- #1/3-4  

13. TTCRD 7/6-7/13: AAG -- #2/2

14. Classic Design Challenge #7 July 2021: AAG

15. The Paper Shelter #477: Going Digital -- #2/3 Used a digi for my focal image.   

16. Dr. Digi's Crafters' Cards Facebook