Trying the Chalkboard Technique

Hello Everyone!
I have a quick post today sharing a card I made for MOJO Monday ,  The Shabby Tea Room and Simon Says Stamp.   I tend to not be a trend follower, so I had not tried the chalkboard technique.  But after seeing it featured over on the Merry Monday Challenge, I decided to give it a whirl.

 I used this great sketch from Verve's MOJO Monday~

And this inspiration from The Shabby Tea Room~

I was drawn to all of the pattern in this photo as well as the black and kraft colors.
 Simon Says Stamp asked us to use a flourish of some sort on our project.  I used this great bling flourish.
If you are familiar with Verve's stamps, you know that this tag stamp has a snowflake on it.  I masked the snowflake so I would just get the tag shape edge.  I stamped leaves and sentiment from Bloom and Grow on the  now plain tag and embossed everything in white. 
 
Thanks so much for stopping by-
Have a blessed week!

Lee Ann  :)

Supplies used
Stamps- Glad Tidings (Tag image), Bloom and Grow
Paper- SU Basic Black, Crumb Cake cs, SU dsp (pink), Me and My Big Ideas (chevron), Bo Bunny- The Avenues
Ink- Versamark, SU Crumb Cake, SU white craft ink
Other- Verve Sweet Scallop Die (tag) and Elegant Leaves Die, dimensionals, Prima flower, Prima bling, white embossing powder, SU white ribbon x2