Happy Birthday Tim!

Saturday January 7th is Tim's birthday, and Linda over at Studio L3 is hosting a Birthday card making event to coordinate with her Grungy Monday challenge!

Well, I've been needing to get creating, so this was a perfect Challenge to get me going!

I used one of the older stamp sets, CMS015 ROAD TRIP. Don't know WHAT took me so long to bust out this one, since I love the Old Jalopy and the phrase!

The background is done with Distress Re-inkers in Antique Linen, Forest Moss and Tumbled Glass, spritzed with Biscotti Perfect Mist. For the cardstock I was experimenting, and used Ranger's Manilla and Krome Cote (inside of card) to see how differently it behaved compared to my standard cardstock.

 I pulled Tim's picture off his blog, resized it and added him into the window of the Jalopy! There's MICA in the windows, which dosn't show up well in the pictures.The key, the red circle and transistor are all vintage items I added in.

The actual card design is from Technique Junkies, 3D and Fun Folds CD, and is a Fancy Gate Fold.

This picture shows the inside, which is done using stickers from Tim's Sticker stash, and a transistor I adhered with Glossy Accents.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

MR. HOLTZ!

HO3

Get it? HO3 ....

Give it a little time.... LOL!

So this mornings tag was done using one of Tim's new Cling Mount Stamp sets CMS118 Christmas Memories! I love the retro look of this set, and seriously need to do it in Silver, Pink and Lime!

But for today, I'm keeping more traditional. Over on Linda's Studio L3 blog her Grungy Monday Challenge is a masking technique based on one of Tim's 12 tags from 09. Well it's quick and easy enough to do. Masking has been around for as long as I've been stamping, which is almost 20 years! And I'm POSITIVE, it was around long before that! Why else would there be a dozen differnt products out there to aid in it? But I was lazy and just used a piece of cardstock rather than cutting masking material. So there, making in it's earliest, primal form!

I stamped the Santa on the tag with Archival in Crimson, then onto a 2nd piece of 110# cardstock & trimmed him out. This piece became my mask. Laid the mask over Mr. C, and Inked around him using Tumbled Glass and Broken China Distress Ink. I also use the mask when putting Picket Fence Distress Crackle paint by his feet so his boots didn't get smutz on them!

Again with the mask to stamp the 'star' in a Gold Dabber.

See the shinney boots and belt? Enamel Paint by Ranger. There's Rock Candy Stickles on the 'fur' of Mr.C for a bit of sparkle too.

The Fragment was inked with BOTTLE Alcohol Ink, and HO3 adhered behind it. HO HO HO. Ho to the power of 3. Are you having a DUH moment or did you get it?

And I know you have to turn your head just a tad to the left, but you'll want to do this to see that really cool tissue tape from Cavallini!

When I get around to it, I'll fix it....