Spoon full of sugar challenge card

Well, this card started out as something else!!

My Mum asked me to make a card for a friend's 60th birthday. I then saw that this week's Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge was to do an age card - perfect!! I knew I wanted to do another springy card like I did for my husband's birthday. Then I saw that Clare Curd's challenge over on the DoCrafts website was to use Triple Embossing so I thought I'd use this for the '60'.

I think I must have been using the wrong sort of embossing powder!! I used Heat It Up copper powder (on the black card), embossed three layers of the powder and then tried to push some number stamps into the embossed layer. It didn't make a single mark!!! It had dried straight away. However, I decided I quite liked the resulting embossed copper layer and so I've used this as my background paper instead!!

The chipboard numbers and corners are Papermania, covered with gold and copper ink respectively and then embossed in either enchanted gold or copper embossing powder.

The Happy Birthday stamp is from Clare Curd's Signature Range. The stamp, and all the edges of all the cardstock were inked in black pigment ink and then embossed in enchanted gold powder. I love the blacky gold effect that I got - doesn't show up too well on the photo!!

Thanks for looking!!