Birthday card with Trick or Treater boy by Tim Holtz

Hello everyone, Let me show you my latest make, a birthday card that I created for one of my nephews. He turns 14 in November but I had to make his card earlier so that I could give him personally. 

The background.

I chose a watercolour paper and coloured with a cream colour acrylic paint, then spritzed with wet brown paint. For this I used a thick but strong bristle paint brush because I wanted tiny drops. Then I repeated the same procedure with white paint. I inked the edges with a brown Distress Archival ink. I also glued some stars and dots to the background. For the stars, I used the  Celebrate Colorize set (666285) and gold metallic paper from the Idea-Ology Kraft Paper 8x8" paper pad. I used the same paper for the dots, but the Sizzix Sidekick Side-Order die, Birthday by Tim Holtz (662703).

The boy

The boy figure is in the Trick or Treater Sizzix Thinlits die set (664751). I cut out the basic pieces of the boy from Neenah Solar White paper. Then I painted the head and the hair with Copic Sketch markers. Then I cut out the corpus from a heavyweight brown paper and I glued together the Neenah and the brown paper. For his clothes (sweater, pants, boots) I just used coloured paper.

The party hat

This hat is part of the Trick or Treater set. But I glued a tassel behind the hat. And the tassel is also part of the Celebrate, Colorize Sizzix set. I used the same colored papers as for the boy's sweater. 

The banner, the balloon 

These are also parts of the Colorize, Celebrate die set. The ballon was coloured with Distress inks (Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed). And as you can see, I used blue and red paper for the decorations too.

The text

The text is part of the MFT Stamps, Bitty Birthday Wishes stamp set.