Happy Birthday Adam

Today is my nephew Adam's birthday.  As always I have problems coming up with ideas

for male themed cards, but I got inspiration from a swap that I received at one of 

our quarterly training days last year.  It was a card made by a fellow Julies Jem - Caroline 

(you can see a version of the card she did by following the link.)

Caroline had not had time to finish off her swaps, 

so I sat and played around for a while and came up with this.

I used the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set to add some more splodges in Basic Gray 

and Raspberry Ripple.  I added the letter A from the Morning Post stamp set,

then wrote the rest of his name by hand.

 I then added a few more cogs and voila!

I am really pleased with the result!

(Plus I am getting more into this grunge look!)

Thanks for the inspiration Caroline - much appreciated xx