Wish BIG

Hi all,
Happy Monday! {detect sarcasm}
OK, so it's a brand new week - what are your plans??? This week, I would love to catch up on some of my crafting...and I suppose my laundry could use a glance as well. Hmph

I did get to create a fun birthday card though, so here it is:

My card base is Sahara Sand CS, the patterned papers are from SU's pack called Raspberry Tart, and the mats are black.  For the strip across the middle, I punched the black piece with my Martha Stewart lattice edge punch, and I also added Martha Stewart pink pearls to the corners. 

I stamped my favourite Bella (AllBoxedUpABella) onto Bella's Bestest Paper using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured her with Copics.  I added some shading with my Prismacolor Pencils and OMS, and I paper pieced the front present with some of the same DSP. 
I stamped the sentiment Wish BIG on the left side with black ink and added some sponging around the panel with some ColorBox Chalk ink in Bisque.

Make sure you all take some time this week to do some stamping or something else that you enjoy!

Also, Bellarific Friday is starting up again this week.  So, your project is due to Emily by Thursday night, in order to be entered for the Friday Bella Bucks!  You can see all the details on the post immediately below this one (scroll down).  :-)
There is an extra chance to win some Bella Bucks over on the revived Stamping Bella Forum on SCS as well.  Check it out!

Hope you enjoyed, and thanks for stopping by!