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Wednesday 4 January 2012

Tim Holtz, Happy Birthday Tim!


   I wish I'd had longer to make something more elaborate for Tim Holtz's birthday  on January 7th - and seeing the fabulous creations appearing on http://studiol3.blogspot.com/  I'm a bit shy about posting this with them. I started with a piece of Coredinations Whitewash card, distressed, 'kiss' and 'ghost' stamped it (as I'd learnt during the 12 Tags of Christmas) embossing several times along the way. I used a T!m stamp for the 3 gentlemen and had a bit of fun giving them party hats... naturally T!m, being the birthday boy, got a  crown. which I embossed in copper. I cut them out (probably unwisely as I left my specs at work today) and die cut 3 Quickutz balloons and added his name.  I hand wrote the sentiment 'King for a day' with an embossing pen. It's prettier and more textured than in the photo, my camera is very simple and the light just bounced back in the piccy
I am entering this onto the Grungy Monday challenge/celebration of  HRM Tim's birthday


13 comments:

Sue said...

I LOVE it!

Candy C said...

Hi Anna...your birthday card to Tim is really a great twist on the steampunk gentlemen! Looks like they are celebrating Tim's birthday, too! Really cute! <3 Candy

Sandra said...

cool how you made those men into kings!

Shelly Hickox said...

Gorgeous!! Love your background and the balloons are brilliant!

Patricia said...

Very BEAUTIFULL, love the crown.
Greetz Patricia

Anita Houston The Artful Maven said...

So cool...loving those kings!!! You are so clever. Tim will love it!!!

Laura said...

Anna, I love your birthday card! It's gorgeous! You did a fantastic job on it!!! Tim will love it too!

Virginia Nebel said...

Love all the embossing, so thoughtful of you to make T!m a card!

Vicki Fraser said...

He sure is a King! Wonderful card, I'm sure it can hold it's own in any company! :)

pooky said...

Good for you Anna! You did a great job on t!m's card!! Sad to say I didn't find out about it until yesterday.....definitely not enough time for me to create the perfect card:((( Have a super day!

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Hels Sheridan said...

Fab card Anne... loving the crowns... how cool are they... those chaps are probably my fave chaps' stamp (nope, that doesn't make sense... hope you get what I mean lol)

なな☆ Nanahoshi said...

Movement of the balloon fun! Cool Steampunk!