A jazzy birthday

Good morning it is my darling Hb's birthday today so we will be off out to lunch to celebrate. We held our family party tea on Saturday which was lovely. It is always so good to get together. I made him a cake, no elaborate decoration this time, I save those for the grandbabies and "special" birthdays only now.

 Everyone likes a slice of my Victoria sandwich which has to have raspberry not strawberry jam as our family tradition.

Sending everyone a virtual slice 😍🍰😄

It is also time for my fortnightly design team make for Visible Image.

I decided to make my Hbs birthday card using some of their fab music stamps as he is learning to play the piano and is really sounding pretty cool! In the end I made 3 cards as I had a fiddle around with designs.
The products I used were;
Jazz it up

 Sing

 the clutch of stars from Rock out

and the birthday sentiment from Go to words set

Also these stencils; Distorted chess

and Strobes

This is what I got up to using these distress oxide inks. 

I made an inky, drippy background on mixed media card.

I then added vintage photo oxide through the distorted chess stencil

and also the strobes stencil. 

Then I stamped some of the stars using chipped sapphire.

After I was happy with my backgrounds I stamped the music stave using tulip red Versafine Claire and then red glitter embossed the singer.

On the other 2 backgrounds I red glitter embossed the jazz players.

I also stamped out the keyboard a few times, the birthday sentiment and then cut everything out. 

I then put my designs together. The one below is the card I gave my Hb.

Here are all 3 of them.

and one last shot.

The music stamps really do make great cards for men or women. 

I would like to enter my cards into the following challenges;

Craft stamper take it make it 1/3 January

Uniko 1/3 anything goes/cool winter colours

As you like it 2/3 anything goes
Allsorts 2/3 more than a single word sentiment
Addicted to stamps and more 2/3 make your mark
A bit more time to craft 2/3 anything goes
More mixed media 2/3 anything goes

All the Visible Image links are listed below

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide.

Their Instagram page can be found here

  Pinterest  here

And the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

And a little heads up...shhh don't tell anyone but there is an awesome new Visible Image release coming your way very soon, stay tuned 😉