Happy Birthday Celebrations

I am working on some cards for a military box a friend is doing for  a troop from Minnesota.  She helped me when I did a box for a Wisconsin troop in March. 

I made a couple birthday cards with this same design.

The stamp for the flower is from Gina K Designs.  I watercolored it with distress oxide inks.  I first laid water into each flower and then came in with distress oxide ink.  I did this on all the petals, dried it and came back in with another layer of color just concentrating the color in the center of each flower.  I had made a background with just a little color on it by using the same color of oxide ink with lots of water added to it to give a hint of color in the background.  I then heat embossed the flower and sentiment on the front.

AAA Cards is celebrating four years of being a challenge blog.  Happy birthday to them.  I am entering my card in their challenge.

The monthly watercolor challenge for June at Happy Little Stampers is Anything Goes with the optional twist of smile.  I know I would smile when I opened the envelope and saw this birthday greeting inside.

The challenge at CAS on Sunday is embossing.  I first stamped my image and sentiment with Black Onyx VersaFine Ink and then used clear embossing powder over the top.  I never could get the hang of using black embossing powder so this is how I do my black embossing.

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