Birthday Wishes

Happy Halloween everyone! I wish everyone a safe and fun-filled day.  I don't get any trick-or-treaters where I live here out in the country, but I still have my house decorated.  The dogs and cat and I enjoy them, but they're coming down after today!  Then more fall and Thanksgiving things can go up. I guess I just love decorating!!!

Our family has a few birthdays that fall right on or either side of Halloween.  When I make their cards I make them anything other than Halloween. So the first one is for a member of the family on the east coast in Massachusetts.  History galore back there, but he just loves Oregon.  I used a stamp from the SU set Coast to Coast.  I actually made two cards and until it came time to put it in the envelope to send, I didn't know which one I would use.

The first one I created is very colorful.  I stamped the Oregon light house image on Neenah Solar White and colored with copic markers.  Although I like how it turned out, it's not how I had intended it to look when I started. I then sponged with SU colors.  I used a Sailor's Knot tutorial from Paper Pursuits to make the sailor's knot. I cut various paper from my stash of scraps and assembled.

DETAILS

STAMPS:  "Coast to Coast" - SU ; "Birthday /wishes" OCL;

PAPER:  Neenah Solar White; SU Night of Navy; DS from Memories of Time

INK:  Ranger Distress Black Soot; SU Sahara Sand, Crushed Curry, Not Quite Navy, Racific Point, Brocade Blue, Basic Gray

ACCESSORIES:  Big Shot, Spellbinders, cotton yarn from my supply

Copic Coloring:

0, C1, 100, C3, E44, E15, E09, E00, E33, G99, YG93, R05, Y11, Y26, Y38, YR00, YR04, YR24

Well, I hope you like it.  Til next time,

Becky