A birthday card for one of my grandson's with a birthday in February. We have not seen them in a few years and we are looking forward to seeing them this summer. The runners is a digital image from
FLYCLIPART. I designed the tag in Corel Draw and added the runner and the greeting then laser printed it. After trimming I chose a fun distressed background for my large blue card. I embossed a strip (CB) of brown cardstock with torn edges added a yellow ribbon and added it to my card using double sided tape. The tag was quite stark in comparison to my background so I decided to distress it. I cut a mask for the runners and then sanded the surrounding are. I added yellow watercolour and let it dry. Then, I stamped the area with a homemade stamp cut from scrap rubber which gave it a nice distressed look. I removed the mask and smudged on some gray, green and blue watercolour to finish off the background. I used black watercolour to add a shadow and surface below the runners. Worked out really well!! I punched a hole in the tag. To add it to my card I ran a short piece of the same yellow ribbon behind the one on the tag and pulled both ends to the front of my tag. Worked so well!!! I trimmed the ends of the ribbon and then added 3D foacm tape behind the tag to keep it where I wanted it. So happy with how it turned out!! Therese
