Birthday Dogwood

I popped into my craft room to make one last card before I head back to work tomorrow.  Yesterday I posted a card for the Just Add Ink inspiration challenge.  Well, here's another one for the same challenge and this time I've also used the sketch from Friday Mashup.

Disclaimer:  I know next to nothing about plants, so I'm guessing this is a dogwood.  

Again I used the flowers and the text from the inspiration pic and this time there is the bonus of the circle element.  I stamped the flower from Happiness Shared onto watercolor paper and colored it using inkpads and aquapainter.  I then masked the flower and over-stamped the text from Notable Notions in Crumb Cake ink.  The DSP is from Soho Subway and the sentiment is from Express Yourself.  I embossed the card base with Pretty Prints EF.  All the layers were sponged with either Crumb Cake or Early Espresso ink to give a vintage look to the card.

Here's a close-up of the flower.

Thanks for looking.

Products used:

Stamps:  Happiness Shared; Notable Notions; Express Yourself
Cardstock:  Early Espresso; Crumb Cake; Very Vanilla; Soho Subway DSP
Ink:  Crumb Cake; Chocolate Chip; Early Espresso; Pear Pizzazz; Old Olive; Pink Pirouette; Pretty in Pink; Regal Rose
Accessories:  Linen Thread; Pretty Prints EF; sponges

Cheers
Karren