Tickled pink

My card today features a stamp from,

which you can find HERE

It was stamped on Strathmore watercolor paper with Versa Mark ink and then heat embossed using clear embossing powder by Stamp N Plus. Then I went over the image with Distress Stain by Ranger. The color I used Spun Sugar is not very dark and at the time I thought I wanted something darker to stand out against the kind of white-ish embossed image. So I fiddled with it adding different inks to the image with a blending tool and then spraying it down with water if I didn't like it. Get the heat gun out to make it dry and start something else. At one point I used Distress Markers on the flowers and you can see in the flowers where I added that color. All and all I used so many different colors that the surrounding paper was ugly so I cut it out and revealed this beautiful one of kind flower image. 

I adhered it, using foam adhesive, to a Spellbinders die cut I made using an upholstery samples as my "paper". I thought this particular sample looked like a basket and went perfectly with the flower stamp. The leaf looking die cut is from my Cricut using a scrap piece of cardstock.  

The cream cardstock, also a scrap I found, has been stamped with THIS border stamp also by Deep Red Stamps. I used the Antique Linen Distress ink to stamp a faint image off to the side. The patterned paper in the background is by My Mind's Eye and I dry embossed it with a Stampin Up/Sizzix embossing folder. The happy chipboard is by American Crafts and the brad holding it on there is by The Paper Studio.

Thanks for looking.

Challenges:

http://ppp-makeitmonday.blogspot.com/- Anything goes

http://sparklensprinklecreativechallenges.blogspot.com/-Embossing powder

http://flourishes.org/category/challenges/timeless-tuesday/- Polka dot background paper

http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/- Pretty in Pink

http://ladybugscraftsinkchallengeblog.blogspot.com/- No squares allowed
http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/- Lots of layers
http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://citycrafter.blogspot.com/- Flowers
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/- Anything goes
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.com/- Anything goes
http://www.creativeinspirationspaint.blogspot.com/- Anything goes