45th Birthday Card + gift

This card is made for my husbands 45th Birthday today.  Happy Birthday!

First I blended some Distress inks on a leftover piece of watercolor paper. and sprayed it with water to get  some texture. I used the piece for the bottom of the card and to die-cut the balloon numbers. 

The balloon numbers are from Avery Elle and are called "Numbered Balloons". I just used the dies, but they also have solid stamps. The numbers are mounted on some black foam to get a bit of dimension. 

The images are stamps "Monsters" by Avery Elle and "Monster Mash" by Lawn Fawn. They are all colored with copics. And alternated glued on with dimension foam and just with glue dots. 

Finally the message is a text stamp from"It's your day" by Hero Arts. It's stamped with Versafine Onyx Black and embossed with clear embossing powder.

The gift for a wine drinker

Since my husband likes a glass of wine in the evening, I decided to engrave one of our Schott Zwiessel - Diva glasses. Unfortunately I didn't make any progress pictures, I was to busy concentrating on not messing up :)

The design is made in Silhouette studio and printed it. I taped it on the inside of the glass so I just needed to trace it with engraving tools and the Dremel power tool. 

Before I started on the wine glass I had a practice session on a jar that I was ready to recycle and I decided to engrave a Nutella glass that with my daughter's Birth year on one side and her name on the other.  We have plenty of them and my husband was not going to notice if one of those glasses went missing because I messed it up :) And I'm glad I did, because I think after a while I did get better at it.

 Although it is far from perfect, I like the result for a one day experienced engraver. Maybe I'll try some more glasses one day.