Created Just 4 U

Black & White Birthday

This morning I was checking out some challenge blogs I've never participated with

before and decided to try my hand at a few.  I actually was able to create a card that

I think fulfills the requirements for 4 challenges.

Here is the card I made.

So, I first saw the challenge at CASology where the cue word is black and the

challenge at Cas-ual Fridays where the theme is embossing, either dry or heat.
Now I've never considered any of my designs to be clean and simple, but I'm
finding that the more I do along those lines the more I like it.  Hope this card qualifies
as clean and simple for those 2 challenges.  I saw the sketch at Seize the Sketch...

and decided that would be the one to use.  I also thought, that since this is a birthday
card that I would enter it in the Seize the Birthday challenge as well, as anything goes
for that one.

I used Black Magic cardstock from Core'dinations and dry embossed it with the

Sizzix Corners and Lattice embossing folders set.  Then I lightly sanding the embossing 

to bring out a little of the white core.  I stamped my sentiment, which is from the

Inkadinkado Expressions and Frames set, and heat embossed it with white embossing

powder.  I finished with 2 silk flowers from the Paper Studio that I put together with

a black brad.  So, hopefully I covered all the bases for these 4  challenges.

 Thanks for taking a look!