One of my colleagues at work just got promoted – actually two of them did, so there will be another congratulations card soon. I have some time to make it because Donna is on vacation for the rest of the week. Fortuitously, the second free stamp set that arrived last week was Bravo – lots of congratulatory stamps. So I thought that using it to make a card for Matt would be perfect.

This didn’t turn out the way that I had half planned. I was thinking to do the Congratulations text heat embossed in silver and then mat it in something yet to be decided. I grabbed a piece of scrap card and stamped and embossed. It happened to be a piece of night of navy which I’d punched the confetti stars into but I’d messed it up and the edge of the card was through the middle of some stars. But when I’d embossed the text, I realised that it looked really good with the stars – I like how the stars tie in with the one in the text. And it looked even better when I grabbed some silver foil paper and put that behind the stars.

Base: Night of navy 8.5″ by 5.5″

Top layer: Night of navy 4″ by 5.25″

Stamp set: Bravo

Ink: Versamark

I have found that using 5.25″ to punch the confetti stars leaves me about 1/8″ border at each edge of the stars so that all of them are whole.