FTTC48 Sweet Flourishes

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge is among my favourite Challenges and sadly I have missed a few lately BUT am happy to have been able to play along this week, even if it was after midnight last night.  For some reason it was hard to sleep - perhaps the heat or maybe the caffiene a bit late at night - who knows but I used the time for this card.

I used one of the images I won at from the Flourishes New Releases last year.  These Sweet Peas are gorgeous and I love colouring them.  We have been challenged by Makita to use yellow and black, along with one other colour - can you guess what my 'other colour' is - yes - you guess it - GREEN!  I coloured this image with Watercolour pens and could not get the depth of colour in the yellow so I had no choice to reach for...my chalks - and what a difference they have made - the yellow is so much brighter!

The image has been cut out and layered onto black CS.  An embossed panel has also been sponged and backed with black CS, a strip of black and white gingham ribbon and a sentiment added, finishing off with black gems.  I think the colouring took longer than the rest of the card, but who doesn't love colouring - so therpeutic!!

This is also for the Crazy 4 Challenges which is all about birthdays this week - the sentiment on the inside says '...on your birthday'
Also Stamping Royalty which is birthday themed.

Thank you for coming by and for taking the time to make your encouraging comments - you make my day - you know I love seeing that you have been.  This is not my only post today, I will be back later with my Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge card for this week - I would love to see you play along, pop over and check it out - it is as 'Easy as 1-2-3' to play along and we are even giving SNEAK PEEKS of the next challenge - to make it easier for busy stampers to play.  God bless you!