A card" for the love of film" for my very special son

Good morning all

I have a card to share with you today that I made for my son Tom's 21st birthday a few weeks ago but never got around to sharing. 

 I had a very specific idea of what this card had to be - it had to be especially for him on his very special birthday and had tobe something that I knew he would love,  Whenever I am commissioned to make a card for someone (particularly when it is someone I don't know) I always find out something about the persons interests and make a card that will be special just for them.  Sometimes you're storing up a load of trouble doing that as there have been some pretty odd requests - but I have to say in some ways these have been the cards I've liked the best because of the challenge of getting it just right.

My son has loved film all of his life - from watching films from when he was small to developing a deeper interest, studying the industry for his own pleasure and eventually going on to doing a degree in Film and Media from which he graduated this year.  Some of you may know already that my son Tom is profoundly disabled by Cerebral Palsy so the fact that he achieved this is all the more reason why we are so very proud of him.

Here is the card that I came up with 

I had an idea of what I wanted to do and set about researching for the perfect stamps - I love the scenes that  Make it crafty do and had a feeling that I would find a background  stamp on there that was just perfect  - and sure enough here it is! - Its called  City Corner and is available here.  I coloured it just by using my copics in shades of grey but didn't want it to be to dark - and really like how it turned out.  I really love the dimension of this digi.

The little director guy is another digi I knew I had seen on my travels and set about finding him again.  He is from Simply Betty Stamps and is from the Teen Scene Hollywood collection,

- his name is Action Chris and he is available here

I layered the two digis together in Microsoft word

 (There is a fab tutorial over at Make it crafty showing you how to layer digi stamps - take a look here if you don't know how to do it - Zoe's tutorial makes it incredibly easy)

I coloured up Action Chris to give the scene a splash of colour so it was a good contrast to the grey toned background scene.  Its a big 8x8 inch card and I really just wanted the images to fill the card so I kept my embellies to the edges.  I used red mirri to mount the image and made all my embellies using a memory box swirl die and Nellie Snellen star dies - for a male card it makes it so much easier to know where you are going with embellies - they definitely don't want a frilyl, pretty pearl embellished card!! - the mirri played havoc with my photograph because I'm sure most of you know how hard it is to photograph but it really made the scene pop and embellished the card prefectly.  To finish the film theme the sentiment is fromthe film strip sentiments stamp set from  Rainbow echo at Whimsystamps available here.  

I was so pleased with this card when I had finished as it was exactly what I wanted it to be

 -  and Tom loved it too!

Here he is on his graduation day- a really informal happy photograph of him that is just so "Thomas" - he got a really good 2:1 and is now continuing to a Masters Degree where he will be doing further study and research - into his favourite field of audiences and all sorts of stuff to do with media integration which I really don't profess to understand!

I've got a whole house to myself this week (well apart from my DH who puts in an appearance here and there!)- Toms away on an activity holiday for the week - lots of physical stuff  like zip lines and archery and sailing and my older son Matthew has taken himself of to Moscow - he's definitely on a mission to see the world - he only went yesterday morning and he sent this photograph of him outside of St Basils Cathedral last night

 - my mother (aged 84 also got the photo on her ipad!) thinks technology is such a wonderful thing - I think I  have to agree - isn't the world such a small place these days my worldwide crafty friends! - have a fab week

Challenges I'm entering with this card

The crafters cafe - anything goes

Challenges for everybody - anything goes

Simply Challenge - Heavy on embellishments
Kraftyhands - anything goes
My creative moments - Birthdays
A day for daisies - use something shiny
Milk coffee challenge - show us your colouring skills

Hugs 

Judith x