Birthday for a Guy ... and December Calendar Page

This card was for our son-in-law.  I saw this technique mentioned in the SCS Weekly Inkling last week and thought I'd give it a try.  You can find the Acrylic Block Background technique tutorial here.  Pretty much, you just ink up your acrylic block, mist it with water, and stamp with it.  You can put darker ink around the edge for a more finished look, but I thought that would be too hard to do with my curved block.

I used Tim Holtz' Weathered Wood ink on my block. The cattails are from Technique Tuesday's set Growing Wild and are stamped with SU!'s Not Quite Navy. It is matted with Not Quite Navy, also. The striped paper is some old Not Quite Navy I've had for a while. The sentiment is Papertrey Ink's  Birthday Basics.

Also, here is my December calendar page.  I couldn't post it yesterday because of WHAT IF? Wednesday.  And I wanted to post the card for our son-in-law because his birthday was Tuesday, plus, I've got lots of other cards to show you.  So, you get a double post today:)  The main image is embossed with a brass stencil.  It's mounted on shimmery silver paper.  

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you'll come back and visit again soon!