books and music .....

Hello there. Today I'm back with a card that I made some time ago now. It was for my older son's birthday but it seems I had forgotten to blog it. 

Anyhow it features 2 of the things that he really enjoys, reading and music (he plays the piano).

I stamped the books on white card in black archival, and heat embossed. I then coloured with distress inks and a damp brush in several colours. I added some gold pen to some spines to enrich the books. I fussy cut image.

I stamped ink well in black archival and masked it off. I then stamped feather and clear embossed it. Again I added colour with distress inks and added glossy accents to ink well. Once dry, I fussy cut it.

 Then I distressed a piece of music paper, added masks where I wanted the images to be, and inked shadows.

Then I added image with pinflair glue gel to give some dimension.

Sentiment was stamped on music paper and cut out with a spellbinders die and inked while still in die.

Images are all from Sheena's range while sentiment is from Claritystamp.

My son was thrilled with his card. I hope you like it too, Theresa xx

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sunday stamper - Books

TTCRD - anything goes

Sister act card challenge - anything goes