Shine Bright

Cut a piece of white cardstock to 4 1/2 x 6 1/2".

Swipe each coloured ink pad, one at a time, on to your glass mat.

Lightly spritz the ink with water then "smoosh" your card into the ink. Dry each colour before adding the next colour, to prevent any "muddy" colours forming. You want the colours to be bright and vibrant. 

You can splatter your inky background with drops of water before mopping up the excess with a paper towel. This leaves you with a lovely distressed effect. 

Apply a strip of masking tape across the "reflective" element of your stamp. You only want the solid image for this particular card. 

Ink the exposed stamp with the Midnight ink, remembering to REMOVE the masking tape BEFORE you stamp!!

Stamp the skyline in the top third of your inked background.

Ink up the firework stamp in Midnight and stamp above your buildings.

Cut two of these dies, one from black card and one from yellow card. 

Glue the yellow die-cut element behind the black, dropping it down slightly and to the right. This gives you a drop-shadow. 

Adhere this along the bottom of your inky card. 

I used a black pen to emphasise the water line under your stamped skyline. This is optional. 

Stamp your sentiment in Midnight, where preferred. 

Adhere your artwork onto black cardstock cut to 4 3/4 x 6 3/4" and then onto your 5 x7" white card blank.