It's great to be grateful!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge is "Thank You".  I don't know about you, but I love typography - in fact, I'd say I looooooooove it, and I can spend hours sifting through font sites drooling over all the goodies that are available!  I decided to make a bold typographic statement with this card, though it didn't quite turn out the way I had planned.

Originally, I was going to colour the letters but after stamping them I decided I really liked the in-your-face starkness of the black and white characters and left them as they were.  It also makes for a great contrast with the richly coloured background, so RESULT! :)  In case you were wondering, the font is Rockwell Extra Bold, though I think I stretched it vertically a little before cutting it out on my Cricut.

I started out by stamping the number background in black and then coloured it by playing whach-a-mole on my card with some colours of Distress Stains.  After cutting out the letters and the shadow layer, I stamped on the letters with the Going Somewhere, Dance Card and Steampunk stamp sets.  The whole thing was matted onto black card and then onto my white card blank. I think if you're going to say "thank you", you might as well say it as loudly as you can, and I think this card certainly does that! :)

Supplies I used included:

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Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

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