celebrate...

Hey there!  Popping in with a card that I made using the sketch from the MFT Sketch challenge, as well as the MFT color combo.  I created a background for the main panel in the sketch and so I'm going to add this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to create a background.   Using some thin cardstock that I purchased over a year ago for this purpose I spent sometime working out how I would use the color combo most effectively.  I used the MFT Plentiful Petals stamp set for the flowers and leaves. Once I had things worked out I committed the design to some of my nice MFT white cardstock.  I stamped an A2 size card panel initially and then cut it down to the size I needed.  I have to say that I was really happy with how my background stamping turned out and I was a little sad to cut it up.  To make that panel pop a bit more I layered some black cardstock behind the stamped panel.    The word celebrate was die cut from MFT white cardstock and then several more times from the thin white cardstock.  All the pieces were then adhered together.  I stamped the sentiment in watermark ink and heat set it with white embossing powder.  The sentiment was then die cut with the MFT Slanted Sentiments die.  I popped up the sentiment and then slipped the word celebrate behind it slightly.  Everything was then adhered to a white cardstock base.   Seems I am still in my clean and simple mode, lol!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  MFT white, PTI black; Stamps and dies:  My Favorite Things; Inks:  Stampin Up, Catherine Pooler, PTI, VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing powder: Hero Arts white