Musical birthday

Last weekend, my husband and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary!  My husband's brother also celebrated his 39th birthday.  We got married on his 18th birthday to make sure he could be home on his birthday--he was traveling the U.S. on a music tour.  The music tour sets the stage for this birthday card for him.  I started out by stamping a sheet music background image with dark gray ink on white card stock.  Then I heat embossed the damask images over top with clear embossing powder and blended on a whole lot of blueprint sketch Distress Oxide ink.  The story behind that is this: last month my brother-in-law and his friend wallpapered his music room/studio in a dark blue damask  pattern; it was a tone-on-tone paper, but I was really hoping that you would be able to see the music music a little better through the clear images than you can.  But, anyway, it created a really beautiful background.  Of course, I had to include an image of a grand piano since he has one in the studio (he is an amazing pianist!)  I wanted to keep the card rather simple so the background could shine, so I die cut a vellum circle to help separate the piano from the background, but still let it show through.  I finished the card off with a gold heat embossed sentiment and a couple of gold sequins.

He has a youtube channel where he plays and sings; if you are interested in checking it out, you can find it here.

Supplies:

Stamps: PaperTrey Ink "Damask Designs" (my first set and I still love it so much!!) and "Rhythm and Soul"; Hero Arts Sheet Music background

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle and Spellbinders "Standard Circles, large"

Challenges:

Pink Gem Challenge--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #139--anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday--Happy Birthday

Cards Galore #178--anything goes

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #49--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

Kat Scrappiness--birthday

Crafter's Cafe #248--anything goes

MFT Summer School Day 1--visual triangle (I used my sequins in a triangle formation)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--use your favorite tool (my die cutting machine--I can't make a card without it!)

Penny's Challenge #477--anything goes