One of my favourite cards

This is one of my all time favourite Hero Arts stamps and I have done lots of variations on this theme.  I used distress inks watercolour technique on a piece of white card which was stamped with a large text stamp.  I then colour tinted the edges and used a distressing tool to rough up the edges too.  The background paper is digi from Pink Petticoat, and the tiny happy birthday is one of my oldest (foam!) stamps which I love.  The green and brown strip are cardstock.  The base card has a lovely metallic pearl finish.  As always it looks better in real life!   Thanks for looking :)