My nephew’s birthday is this Saturday.  Pretty crazy to think that he was just a teeny, new baby at my wedding, and now he’s turning 16.  How time flies!

Needing a birthday card, and needing it to be masculine, I thought the best use was to go clean and simple.  Something I almost always really like.  I’m linking this up to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes challenge.  Ah, the best type of challenges 🙂

I was able to use my MISTI, which allows one to create a repeated pattern like this with so much ease!  I’d never have tried anything like this prior to getting MISTI, and I really like that I was able to stamp the light grey over and over, then restamp the one I wanted to focus on in a different color.

Supplies:  Simon Says Stamp (birthday stamp, fog ink, die), Neenah 110# Index, Memento Teal Zeal dye ink