BIRTHDAY WISHES

I'm in need of a couple of birthday cards this week and decided to make two at the same time to save myself some grief. I was inspired by Color Throwdown Challenge #823 - kraft, fuscia, and orange. I made an A2 card base and matching envelope from some kraft paper I had in my stash.

I'm fond of the spotlight technique and stamped the Hampton Art #SC1013 flower-filled envelope with black ink twice - once on the face of the card and the second time on an extra scrap. I colored the scrap with markers, cut the image out with stitched die, and attached it over the uncolored image. the final step was to white heat emboss a PTI sentiment on a strip of black cardstock and glue it to the face. 

I finished the inside off with a small portion of the same image in black, die cut it with a rectangular stitched die, matted it with black cardstock, and attached it to the inside where I'll hand write a message, I lined the matching envelope with some fuscia-colored printed paper.

Color Throwdown: Color Throwdown Challenge #836