Anniversary Card - OCC Challenge

Well I am happy to report that after spending several hours sewing yesterday my elbow is not aching! What a relief. Now mind you, I was just sewing on binding to some finished quilts but its a start! I am so far behind in my sewing projects and with the nice weather coming up I can myself getting further and further behind. Oh well, I just quilt for fun and for charity so I guess it doesn't matter. They will be done, when they are done.

Today I'm posting a card made for the OCC challenge (http://www.ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.ca/)

This is another stamp that gets used a lot! When I pay $10 or more for one stamp, I want to make sure its going to be well used and this one sure is. I had no idea it would be so popular. I've coloured it in pastels, brights and everything in between and they are snatched up as fast as I can make them.

This one is blue and orange with a hint of white. IT was coloured with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol (still experimenting with them and not quite mastered it yet). I cut the lower edge of the paper (from a 6" paper pack that is likely out of print now) with my Spellbinders Edgeabilities and then I cut the orangey strip from the same die and overlapped them. I really liked this effect. The flowers were cut from two different orangey colours with a Quickutz die. It only cuts two petals at a time and you just stack them together.  I attached them with a tiny flower brad. When it was all put together I decided the top left corner looked bare and I needed something blue besides the man's shirt so I punched a corner tab with a Stampin' Up punch out of navy blue and glued it on. That I liked! The little butterfly on the punched flowers came from Dollarama - a whole package full for a $1.00 and I use them a lot.