Minty Happy Birthday

I actually slipped into the crafty room and stamped! I did! Here is one of the cards I made:

The colors are Mint and Gold, for the current Little Tangles challenge:

Also, the current Less is More challenge is to use Green & Gold.

I have very few Neat & Tangled stamps, but I do like this diamond  stamp. I stamped it in Delicata Gold, then half-heartedly (I thought) added clear embossing powder. I then dumped some WOW Green Shimmer Embossing Glitter over the piece, hoping to get it to stick to the areas I missed with the clear. Nope. Didn't happen. So I heat-embossed the gold. There are a few flecks of the green glitter here and there, but you really need to look for them.

Not to be defeated, I took out my Versamarker and colored in three of the shapes, then added the green glitter powder to those three spots. It stuck, even though it's not complete coverage. But it's minty green, so I'm okay with it.

To finish it off, I added a birthday sentiment stamped in Delicata Gold (love that stuff) onto a strip of Simon Says Stamp Mint card stock, and put it over the diamonds with foam tape.

I'm itching to add a third color, but I was good and I stopped. It's a challenge, right? :)

Oh, and I very loosely followed the current CAS(E) This Sketch! sketch:

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Stuff I used:  Vat of clear embossing powder (it's a pint, which is a vat compared to the 1/2 oz jars most of them come in), Simon Says Stamp/Kelly Purkey Happy Birthday stamp set, WOW green shimmer embossing glitter, and the following:

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