showCASe your style challenge #6

Clearly Whimsy Stamps has a fabulous new challenge blog called showCASe your style.  Have you checked it out yet?  You do NOT have to use Whimsy Stamps products to play along but if you do, the gift certificate will be more if you are the winner!

The challenge runs 2 weeks and this time it's all about COLOR!  

Turquoise, Lime, Black, White

I started by using some Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass onto my top folding card base just around the edges (I did this mainly because I couldn't find cardstock in my stash to match the Distress Ink!).  I used the "Happy" die from Whimsy Stamps and diecut the word but left the word in the negative.  Why, you ask?  I used my blending tool to then apply Tumbled Glass and Shabby Shutters Distress Inks to my word (leaving it in the negative made applying the 2 colors of ink so easy!)  My diecut "Happy" word was layered with 2 more white layers and for the 3rd layer.....I diecut a BLACK "Happy" and offset it to the left just a bit to give a shadow effect.  

Some balloons from Happy Everything (Whimsy Stamps) were stamped onto a trimmed white card that was layered with black cardstock.  I finished my sentiment with "birthday wishes" stamped onto a tiny handcut banner and adhered with foam adhesive.  Here's a close-up of the "Happy" diecut:

We'd love to see your card using the theme from showCASe your challenge!

{Happy birthday wishes}

Stamps:  Happy Everything, Sweet as Candy Sentiments (Whimsy Stamps)

Paper:  White, True Black (PTI)

Ink:  Shabby Shutters, Tumbled Glass (Distress Inks), Island, Limeade, Provincial Gray (Fresh Inks), Onyx Black (Versafine)

Dies:  Happy (Whimsy Stamps)

Misc: Foam Adhesive