Happy Birthday Duo

 Last week the sketch challenge really gave me a jump start for finishing this card for my friend at work who plays slot machines at the casino. ( the lady is Slots Jean from Art Impressions and the sentiment is from Riley & Co.) this has the strips a little wide than Diane drew in the orginal sketch but, it does squeak by. The base panel of Basic Grey print was evidently on the table some time when I had pale blue paint to use up because, there is a layer of that over the print which tones it down a little. the check-ish layer is from my minds eye. This one finished out at A7 in real life.

 This one was jump started by this week's featured stamper Kim who has this winter scene card that I just loved how colorful the sky was and those 3-d looking stars, So, a while back Anita made this awesome freehand polar bear shaped card and I loved that so much then it was maybe a week or two after I seen that I happened across this polar bear die from Sizzix in a craft store about 80 miles from my house, (yes, of course it followed me home) and has been sitting on the diecutting end of the table ever since. and when I spied the bear in Kim's card I was like Ah-Ha...
I cut the polar bear from some gold flaked mulberry paper (and the large stars too) and lined the edges of the stars with gold wink of stella pen and then scribbled the nose and eye on the bear with a grey pen. The sentiments are from an older Club scrap set called Firecracker. that same set has a couple of tiny clusters of star stamps too, so those were inked with some Distress Oxide scattered scraw and are over the pained panel sky. ( the background was done a long time ago with acrylic paints, white gouache watercolor paint and stencils). I did add some snowtex to the line where the sentiment ground overlaps the background as the hard line needed softened. 

A peek at the panel that is on the inside,those sentiments are from the Simon Says Stamp tiny words birthday set and the Ampersand is from the Simon Says Stamp Ornate Ornaments set. This one finished out at 6" square in real life. Hopefully they will be well received. :) Thanks for stopping by.