Winning is Fun

Last month I tried to stretch my wings a bit and entered this card in three different challenges. I won the 365 Cards challenge. My prize was my choice of stamp set from Stamp{ippity}. I chose a new release Now & Always. What a cool set, I got it just a few days ago and haven't had a chance to play with it. So I went to the 365 Card blog this morning to see what the current idea is today. Well it is to use the lyrics from the song Rainbow Connection to make a card, but you can't put a rainbow on your card.

Well I read the lyrics and thought about it and decided that, okay, rainbows come after rain and flowers come after rain also. So my card is a flower in a rainbow of colors.I stamped the flower in black onto Cryogen white then chose every one of my Vand RV Copics and colored away. I colored all the petals with RV00 first then added V12 to the first row (starting from the center) and blended, the second row I colored with V12 then added V04 and blended with V12, the third row I colored with V04 and added V15 and blended with V04. On the third row edges I colored in RV04 which was a little too pink so I added V12 and then went over the whole thing with RV00. The center of the flower is YR15 and Y38. I wanted to add a little sparkle so I decided to add a rhinestone brad to the center. Now I have all my brads dumped into one drawer and I have to rifle though them to find the one I want, for whatever reason all I could pull out was this little purple one. So there it is, I added the two leaves that I had stamped on a bit of green patterned paper that I colored with YG03 and G20.

I cut out the flower and went to my scrap drawer to find papers for mounting. I decided to use my scalloped circle Nesties for backing and then I stamped the image in several shades of Memento inks on some shiny gold paper and put it all together on a Lasing Impressions card base. This card didn't take as long to make as it to type up this post.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.