DT: Addicted to stamps and more – birthday challenge #448

Hello! Welcome to my blog (welcome back for those who have stopped by before)!

Today I have a design team contribution which is actually a card I made quite a while ago for a friends 40th birthday but I saved it as a design team project as I was so happy with it!

This is for the birthday challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

I chose to use Kraft and white with lots of embossing and and a tiny pop of black with both the mat and the embellishments.

I made a background using a mixture of the Happy Celebrations stamps and some little Paperartsy ones and lots of white and pearl embossing powder and then I coloured in the open space with white Kraft ink and water. Then did lots of splatters of the Kraft ink to finish off!

I created the last part of the sentiment with embossing and layers of the card but then decided i wanted to add a die cut star as the focal point.

I cut the star using the Tidings and Trimmings dies and stacked it three high to give it some dimension. Then stacked under the sentiment to make that sturdy too.

Then I grabbed the black star embellishments from the stash to add some more fun. I layered this background with a few layers and then added it to the 7×7 card blank and then grabbed my foam letters/numbers and added that to the front of the card … after all it was a special birthday!

Inside the card some simple stamping and more of the black stars to finish off!

Really pleased with how this ended up and think it is a nice card style that can be adapted for different recipients with a change of colour or embellishment!

Happy crafting!

Catherine