STAMPlorations challenges, a reminder

 Have you joined in the latest Theme and Photo challenge over at STAMPlorations? There's still time and the teams have got together to give you some more inspiration here, to encourage you to join in, including my card below!

I used the theme of numbers for my anniversary card.

I used the fab large cake from Dee's Better Together and more of the digits from the Numbers Plate Die.

After stamping the cake on some white card in Altenew's Industrial Diamond, I used Copics to colour and then fussy cut it out. I prefer to fussy cut as it allows me to add the white 'iced' cake to the coloured background without loosing the intensity of the white. Fussy cutting even small images is worth the effort, I don't really like the white border you get from matching dies, when available, and it doesn't cost as much either! I do like to use die cut letters and numbers though!

On my slightly shimmery cream card base, I stamped the image again and then glued the fussy cut cake on top. I did this because I wanted to retain the fine spray above the large bloom but not have to fussy cut it! A bit of a cheat I know, but the overall effect is worth it.

Using a 1 and 5 cut from white card and the plate die, I repeated the cut with two more black numerals, which I then layered up and adhered to the largest tier. The sentiment from the same set was stamped in black and embossed with clear EP to complete.

For more inspiration from the team and for all Ts and Cs checkout the STAMPlorations blog here, then why not join us?

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