"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal."
-Albert Pine

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Happiest Birthday Wishes, ... Scrabble Style!!

I'm having serious memory problems here lately!! (Must be some of my new medications. Hmmm.)  Anyway, I made this card last November for my Sister-in-law's birthday, and can't remember if I ever posted it!
This card was so fun to make!  For the game board, I copied an actual Scrabble board,
and just cut a section of it that I needed for the card.  The stamps I used for the "Scrabble tiles" are a set from Scrappy Moms Stamps, and I believe it's called Alphabet Soup.  I also used the die that cuts them to 'tile size' and the wood grain background stamp (also from Scrappy Moms.)  The wood grain was stamped in Antique Linen Distress Ink, to give it a very subtle... almost tone on tone look!  I also cut all the tiles I needed to spell out my words times ten!  Crazy, I know.  But I wanted them to be dimensional, without using pop dots.  So I stacked them up!  They ended up being about a third to a half the size (thickness) of actual Scrabble tiles, which I thought was perfect for a card.  I hope you can tell the thickness of them in this picture:
And here's my made-up sentiment on the inside of the card, (oh yeah, it was a gift card holder too!)

Hope you like it!!!  (And I hope she did!!)

Ta-ta for now!

"Don't glue anything I wouldn't glue!!"
                            

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