Avery Elle "Weight Lifting" 18th Birthday Card

Following on from my post yesterday.  You may recall I wasn't happy with the 18th Birthday card I had made.  Today I have made another card which I am a lot happier with.

I used the same "Avery Elle" weigh lifting stamp, but this time used the Funky Fossil "Sunray Stencil" with "Candied Apple" Distress Oxide Ink to create the background, fading the colour out towards the edges.

I used a Lawn Fawn greeting from their "Simply Sentiments" stamp set, stamped in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink.  I coloured the figure with Posca Pens. 

 

I then die cut the 18 in the image and also in a layer of black Funky Foam.  I adhered the card and funky foam letters together then stuck them on to the card, so that the 18 is elevated out of the card, without it being too obvious.

Avery Elle Weight lifting 18th Birthday Card

The son of our friends will be 18 soon, so I wanted to make a birthday card for him. 

He is also training for a weight lifting competition, so I wanted to make the card themed to this, but it has proven easier said than done.  

There is a definite lack of stamps which fit this theme.  In the end, a crafting friend pointed me in the direction of a listing on Etsy for a discontinued stamp set by Avery Elle.  The only problem is that it was in America.  I bit the bullet and purchased it, at an extortionate postage cost and it arrived this week.

(this is the original draft card)

Now I have the stamp and know the size of it, I need to create the card and I am not in the mood for it at all.  Here are two attempts.  The one without the blue border was my draft, I then made what was to be the card to give, but I don't like it.  It is too busy.  So I need to make another one. I'll leave it for today and see if I have other ideas for it tomorrow.

I've used the Avery Elle stamp for the main figure, with the Visible Image stencil called "Time Tunnel" in the background.