Happy Birthday To My Friend

Hi Crafters!  How's this for a clean and simple style?  What's more, it's relatively flat (except for the flatback pearls, that is!)  Can you believe it! LOL   And yes, I did do this card.  Every once in awhile I just like to get a little bit inky and have a good old fashioned play!  For this card, I used the Vintage Labels Three from Justrite stamps and cut an aperture in a piece of copy paper using the largest size in the set. I taped my copy paper over a piece of coconut white card.  Using several distress inks, Mustard Seed and Fired Brick, I carefully inked through my aperture to create a sunset sort of effect.  I tend to pounce rather than rub with my cut 'n dry foam around the edges, that way I don't catch the edge of the copy paper and lift it accidentally.  Once I was happy with the colour coverage, I removed the copy paper.  I used the Floral Thank you silhouette flower and inked it with a black archival and stamped it off  centre.  I added my sentiment below in black and three flatback pearls in the opposite corner.  A black mat to frame it, then a double white pierced mat to finish it off.  Super simple and super quick and quite pretty, I think too!  Finished dimensions are 7" x 7 1/2" in size.  All for now, Sue x