Men's cards

Well what a month June is for cards, lots of birthdays and anniversaries both family, friends and forum friends, so as Saturday was a washout because of the weather it was a good excuse to tuck myself in my little room and get crafting.

I bought this Clarity stamp at the Farnborough Craft Show in January (or was it February this year?) and it has recently been demonstrated on Ideal World, so I decided to try it for the Men's cards I needed for this month.

I used my brayer to do the background, a mask to do the moon, another stamp with black ink for the foliage, and inked and brayered the fisherman, then rolled the brayer onto the background to get the image, and used the actual stamp to do the reflection. I feel quite chuffed with myself that the brayering was actually successful.

(I used a gloss card to brayer and found it worked so much better that ordinary card which I haven't had much success with on previous attempts)

I heat embossed some foliage and Happy Birthday in black ink on the main card just to finish it off