What do you call the Drummer.......

Morning all.

I must admit that the title of this post is a slight dig at one of my brother's in law. He is a drummer and we all know that drummers one day wanna grow up and be real musicians....hee hee hee. It was his birthday and I was inspired by this card. Sadly I do not have the creator and I have gone back through everything and cannot find the creator, so if it is you...thanks so much.

This is my version of the card above.....

I decided to carry the star theme through from the stamped background, to the brads to the punched shapes.

Now for those regular readers, you know that I do not wet emboss very often, but I braved it for this card. I think it came out OK....but I still need a lot more practice!!

I had a heap of fun putting this card together. I got to bust out Extreme Elements which create a fun and fantastic grunge background in next to no time.

Thanks for popping by.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Black, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler and Artsy.licious - fine illustrated paper in Kohl # 31685, Stardream Metallic Gold Paper

Ink: (SU) Versamark, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Gray, Black, VersaColour Metallic Gold

Stamps: (SU) Extreme Elements, Extreme Guitar and clear birthday semtiments from stash

Punches: (SU) Large Oval, Large Star

Other Bits: SU distressing tool, Gold Star Brads, Black EP, Dimensionals

Lynda xx

Pre-Teen Rock - #2

Time is marching by so very quickly. A couple of weeks ago (yes I am still posting Sept projects) my son turned 11!!!! Buoyed by the success of the 1st Extreme Guitar card I did (last post) I decided to put my own twist on another card I had seen here. This is my version that Mast 11 received.....

I 'grunged' the background and the "11" up as previous, as well as the bits behind the guitarist...

I then thought, since my son's friends are all roughly the same age, I made another, but this time left the age off to be added when needed.

I used the KaiserCraft "Grunge" stamp on the background of this one. It is less of a tyre tread texture as the "rough Texture" SU wheel is.

I hope to use this image much more as all the boys around me grow up. It's kind of fun.

Thanks for popping by.

Stuff used:

CS: (SU) Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Tangerine Tango, Real Red, Very Vanilla

Ink: (SU) Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Tangerine Tango, Real Red

Stamps: SU - Extreme Guitar, Just Jawing, KaiserCraft Clear "Grunge" Stamp, Gel-a-tins "Numbers"

Punches: (SU) Large and Small Square Punches, Spiral Punch

Other Bits: Dimensionals

Lynda xx

Pre-Teen Rock - #1

It really is amazing how time flies. Bestie's eldest son was 12 not so long ago...so I have "graduated" to "tween masculine cards"....just typing those words can send shivers down the spine!!!

I was lucky enough to get "Extreme Guitar" before it retired at the end of last catty. I was therefore armed with a least a stamp in my artillery that could be used for such an age group!! I then found this MDS card on SCS. Now we do not have MDS (My Digital Studio) in Australia...so I had a play and came up with this for Master 12.......

I was so very happy with this end result. I did add a couple of my own touches though. I do not have a "splat" stamp, so I improvised with a rough textured clear Kaiser stamp and then ripped a random hole in paper and used it as a mask. It was also stamped off, but you get the general idea.

After stamping the 4 dark strips, it still looked a little bare, so I stamped a music stamp in the same tone in the gaps left behind.

Then it was a matter of adding in the stamped off stars and lining up the guitarist image.

The punched star and sentiment were the final touches. I had to cut the dark star by hand as I needed to just build it a tad more.

Master 12 was happy and thought the card was "cool" which translated I guess is high praise from a chap of that age!!!

Thanks for dropping by.

Stuff Used:

CS: (SU) Sahara Sand, Early Espresso, Real Red, Very Vanilla

Ink: (SU) Sahara Sand, Early Espresso, Real Red

Stamps: SU - Extreme Guitar, Just Jawing, Rough Texture Wheel (ret), Simple Type Alphabet Numbers, KaiserCraft Clear "Grunge" Stamp, Hero Arts -Clings "Musical Clef"

Punches: SU Large Star, Carla Craft CP2 Star

Other Bits: Dimensionals, SAMJ

Lynda xx