Beautiful Birthday

Sometimes the creating process takes off on it's own.  I was die cutting the flowers, and it happened that the washi tape I was using to hold down the dies in position was the green grid one.  And "Voila!" thought that would go so well with the flowers.

For the background, I mixed in some distress inks into the embossing paste and used a leaf stencil.

I first water-coloured the flowers with Distress Inks, but then thought it was a bit pale.  Here's the before photo...

So I added highlights with Prismacolor pencils. And black enamel accents to the centres.

My entry to ...

... CAS(e) This Sketch #363. I rotated the sketch so the stripe was on the left.

... AAA Birthday : Flowers

... The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge

... The Flower Challenge : Anything Goes