Harley Birthday Card

 Hello my crafty friends, back with another birthday card to share with you.   I have four guy birthdays coming up in December and I always struggle with masculine cards so I thought I better get started early this year.    This card is following Mary's card sketch #3 over at cardz TV. This one will be for my brother Sonny he just bought himself a Harley Davidson motorcycle last year and yet this is far from a Harley I thought it looked pretty cool after I added some cool details and tweaks.

The motorcycle is from Cricut - Happy Father's Day cartridge.   I cut the two layers it offered on the cartridge as normal... the top one being in recollections black and the layering layers that go behind I did in a different textured black card stock.   I then I added clear embossing powder to the tank and fenders layers,  it really came out with a cool Glossy textured effect because it was on textured card stock to begin with.   Then I cut a complete blackout layer to go behind everything in a reflective silver card stock  to add all the awesome chrome look to the bike.   I also cut the seat section out of the textured card stock but I didn't add the embossing powder to it.   And one last final touch I did to the bike is on the very front part of the headlight I added glossy accents to make it look like a glass lens.

 Both of the label and banner die-cuts are from spellbinders but on each one I hand drew the inner section of the die and hand cut to give it a layered look.   After I adhered the polka-dot one I put it back in the die and ran it through with the embossing Mat to really let it pop  and mold to the shape.
For the word banner I added an old happy birthday rub-on from my stash.  I have a trick for making rub-on's attach easier in case anyone doesn't know this:   I cut the rub-on to fit the gray piece of paper,  I layered my die-cutting machine up as if I would be embossing only instead of putting the grey paper with the rub-on on top of it inside the embossing folder I laid it underneath the embossing folder and ran it through.   In most cases this gives enough pressure that the rub-on sticks to whatever you're attaching it to .... sometimes however you still do have to do a little rubbing as I did with this one just on the very ends though.  My Rub-on's are very old,  not sure if that makes a difference.   So once I had the rub-on attached to the gray piece of paper I inked the edges with walnut stain distress ink and then I adhered it to the embossed banner.   Both the motorcycle and the word banner are popped up on foam tape.   Plus I added 3 Grey enamel dots to the left bottom corner.

Card Base Layer in a grey rivot paper -  cut with spellbinders card creator die
4 X 5.25 layer in black recollections – Simon says stamp, Bundle of stitched shapes
Top section silver reflective layer - embossed with Cuttlebug diamond plate folder
Bottom section  diagonal striped star card stock  - Pressed petals, punk paper stack
Gray polka-dot paper – from my stash
Motorcycle  - Cricut  father's Day cartridge
Label – spellbinders labels 20
Word banner – spellbinders ribbon banners


 I will be entering into these fun challenges:
CARDZ TV DESIGNERS CARD SKETCH CHALLENGE #1 BIRTHDAY
Cut It Up Challenge - Challenge #105 - Name Game  Eva= Letter E - Embossing & Enamel Dots
Scrapy Land -  #50 Happy Birthday!
Simon Says Stamp Monday - Powder Power  Embossing Powder on bike tank & Fenders

Thanks for stopping by to see what I'm up to in my craft room, hope to see you again soon!
Crafty hugs, Eva Scraps