Celebrating with friends

I thought I would make a card for a friend's Grandson for his birthday. I used the Spellbinders - Say Cheese Classic Pooh Collection - Etched Dies - Pooh and Friends Silhouette, but I couldn't decide what paper to use for the background, so I made 3 cards.

I used some striped designer paper to resemble the sun setting sky and die cut the images on black card.

I die cut the image twice and layered them together for some dimension and added the black frame.

On this one I have used designer paper with part of a tree and a sky background.

I made the inside a bit different in each card by reducing the die cut characters.

I really liked this designer paper and thought I would make the same style card in a pink colour theme.

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Blackout Embossing

 For this card I have tried the Blackout Embossing technique. I used kraft card stock and embossed the card. Then on the de-embossed side I rubbed over the card with a black inkpad, leaving the de-embossed area the Kraft card colour and the raised area dark resembling a suede look. I then added the ribbon, sentiment and die cut daisy flower.