90th Birthday

This is the card that I made for my brother in law's 90th birthday earlier this week.The ivy stamp I used is from Inkylicious and because I didn't want the stamping to look too heavy I used Brilliance Lightning black ink. I had trouble finding the right greens to colour the leaves and I think in the end I used mainly ColourSoft pencils blended with Sansodor and added little touches with Promarkers and Distress markers for the stems and roots.I coloured the wall with promarkers.I trimmed this and mounted it on a mat cut from a snippet of dark green card. I had a piece of ivy backing paper from a Papermania christmas pack but it looked rather whitish next to the stamped piece which started out as ivory card, however as it fitted the card theme so well I photocopied it onto some thin ivory card, and then used a TH Alterations brick wall EF to emboss it.I cut it down to fit the front of an A6 kraft card and stuck it in place. The stamped panel is fixed with thin foam tape. The greeting is stamped onto a snippet of the printed card and matted on another snippet of the green card, and the 90 cut from another  tiny snippet of the same green using a TH  Upon A Time alphabet die.
My brother in law, who very fit and healthy for a 90 year old had a lovely birthday. My sister arranged a tea party for him and all the people from the flats where they live were there as well as some family, and now they are on holiday in the south of France.
I am off  to Pixies snippets Playground now to show this snippety card. No matter how many snippets I use the box just keeps getting more full up !!

I am also entering at Allsorts Challenge - All About The Boys
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