Happy Birthday Michael!

  Yes, it's my brother's birthday today... He was born five years after me so that makes me five years older than him.  I visited him today at his care home, after, of course I was tested negative for the C bug, where the carers were decorating a cake they had prepared for him.  Really nice! 

I made him a card...motorbikes and guitars, is what I came up with because he used to ride motor bikes and played in a band. I used the Twist and Pop design, mainly because I thought I could do that quickly, but I got the mechanism wrong, luckily it all turned out okay in the end. I used a Kenny K digi. This one I bought years back in March 2013, and later made a card for hubby using the same digi. See post below, it's my this weeks 'Blast From The Past.' (Shoulda waited for the June, coz it was free then! I've also seen it on CraftsUprint as an already coloured 3D)

 Anyway! Back to this card... it's just under 6"x6" I've used a 3D tri-boss embossing folder, covered it with 'Cosmic Shimmer Metallic Gliding Polish', then just cut round it and fixed it onto another piece of black card at odd angles, then roughed up the edges with the same gold. I added the main topper, which was made up of red, gold, black, embossed gold miri card, more black and then the digi, printed on 160gsm paper and coloured with Promarkers. I added some brass coloured brads too.

Not very happy with the inside as I had an idea of adding more cogs and gadgets, maybe balloons, and bits of the bike too, but I was running out of time after redoing the mechanism. (I really think that could've been bigger) The inside backing paper I love. I have the 12x12 and the 8x8 (200gsm) it's called Grand Plans with the TrimCraft lable on the back. (2017) So! lesson learnt! Don't wait till the last minute to make a card! That's it for now! Thank you for stopping by! Hoping to add this to some... 

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HappY BirthdaY PaT! Not too Old for a Twist And Pop Card!

 

Happy Birthday Pat! And here's Pat's Birthday card, I made in a hurry nipping back home in the evening for an hour over the week... as we are still House sitting dogs!
 I wanted to do something fishy... but I did that last year...so I added a few fishy things to the back... actually, come to think of it, last years card wasn't that fishy as it had cats on the front...

This card ended up being a mixture of everything I could find too!  The front should've had the shaker balloon on it but it went a bit wrong. I'll link the crafty stuff I used, later.

 

This is the inside. I've made the Twist and Pop mechanism smaller than suggested as I find them easier, and the more you make the easier they are to do.  The balloon at the bottom is the shaker that I decided not to use. I'll leave it as that for now, dogs need a walk! Have to go! Bye for now!