Monochrome Birthday Card

Hello,again

Here's today's card, sorry about the photo, it looks really nice in real life, I promise!!!

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8x8 card blank

Grey Cardstock

White card

Double sided adhesive

Diamond sprinkles glitter jewels

Phill Martin's everyday bracket sentiments 

Phill Martin's floral flourish and corners stamps

Creative expressions embossing folder - quilted flower

Sue Wilson's complete daisies

Sue Wilson's open daisies 

Spellbinders labels 28

Spellbinders gold labels 28

Small dazzler

Black gems

Star dust glitter jewels

Ok,

To start I cut a piece of grey cardstock 1/2 cm smaller than the  card blank and glued it to the card. 

Next I cut a piece of white card, again 1/2 cm smaller than the grey and using black soot distress ink stamped a semtiment around each side of the card, close to the edge , with the sentiment facing the edge on each side. I then stamped a floral flourish in each corner. 

Then I cut a narrow square frame that would sit just inside the wording and embossed it with the embossing folder. Next for the centre I cut another square of card that the frame would sit over without the edges showing on either side. I randomly stamped some of Phill's floral flourishes, again using black soot distress ink, then took a piece of double sided adhesive sheet the same size as the square and stuck it on top of the card. I then peeled off the top layer of the adhesive sheet and sprinkled some of the diamond sprinkles on top. These were rubbed in gently with my fingers and tapped off any excess which I put back in the pot.

I then glued this to the centre of the card and stuck the frame on top.

I then cut the toppers from the spellbinders dies, the larger one in the grey card and the smaller one in white, which I gently edged with the distress ink using a piece of cut n dry foam leaving the die in whilst doing this. I then stamped the sentiment using one of the bracket stamps with the brackets masked off before inking the stamp up, then removing the masks before stamping!!! I then layered the toppers together with foam tape and stuck them to the card.

To finish I cut some complete daisies with white card and some open daisies with grey card and after shaping and layering them together stuck them to the card with some dazzlers and gem in the centre.

I also edged the topper with some star dust twinkles.

Thanks for stopping by

Happy Crafting

Alison