This card was made for my brother-in-law (you may have guessed that) about 10 years ago. I've used and distressed Basic Grey papers, and used a Cuttlebug script embossing folder on the green. I found the brown button in my mum's old button tin, and sanded it. The letters for the greeting are computer-generated in upper and lower case and cut out separately to ink the edges and set them in that up and down style.The letters for his name are chipboard. I covered them in paper, inked the edges and used clear heat embossing to make them shine.
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This is my brother-in-law's birthday card. Getting better, I think, although I can see more that could have been done to it. However, it is winging its way across the fens to Ramsey as I write, so my brilliant observations are a case of twenty-twenty hindsight, I'm afraid. I can see that I would have added a gold mini brad or two, and some glimpses of vintage images stamped across the striped paper... which is all BG, by the way, decorated with some old buttons from my old button box, one of which didn't look old enough.. until I distressed it a bit. Well, you'd be distressed if someone wanted to soften your edges with a nasty raspy file! The green paper was also Cuttlebugged a bit.
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