Pint Sized Laura

I was asked a couple of days ago to make a couple of Birthday cards for her to give to her hubby and a friend.  The hubby is 50 (you can see that card on the previous post) and the friend is 60.  Whenever I am asked to make a card for somebody I don't know I do like to know their hobbies/likes etc. but my friend was not very helpful, the spec for her hubby's card ended up as he likes hedgehogs and put a 50 on top lol.  For this creation all she could come up with was 'he likes beer' - thanks to Just Inklined I had what I hope is the perfect digi to work with.  As my friend is German I tried to add a German feel to the card with the text prost (cheers) and by designing the dp with bottles of German beer.

To begin with I designed my design paper.

 Next I opted to make a style of card I have not done before and oh WOW - I loved working with this shape and will certainly be using it again.  I used white card which I covered in black then added my design paper on top.

Next to print and colour the digi. Oh I think I lost my brain at this point or maybe I just needed a caffeine top up because I forgot to add the text digitally and did not realise until after I had coloured the image.   To solve the problem I used my die cutter and black vinyl - a great way to get out of a sticky problem <g>

Here is the image coloured and the vinyl text added.  The image is Pint Sized Laura by Just Inklined

Image was coloured with Promarkers

A very simple topper was added which I created digitally and then used Spellbinder dies to cut.

 To finish off the digi I added red line stickers around the edge so match the red inked outline round the 60 in the topper.

 And here we have the finished card :)

Ingredients

• Digi - Pint Sized Laura by Just Inklined 
• DP by me
• Spellbinders Circles and Labels 22
• Promarkers
• Line stickers and black vinyl from my stash

I am entering this creation into the following challenges:-

• Crafting When We Can - 2W, 2E, C5 - Challenge #80 Name It
• Robyn`s Fetish - W - #234 Food or Drink
• The Squirrel & The Fox - 2W, 2E - #78   Happy Birthday
• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - 2W, 3E -  No. 76 - (W1 of 2) - For The Boys