NBUS Flower

I have been feverishly trying

to get a card made so I can enter

Darnell's latest NBUS challenge

but nothing was working. 

Drawers were pulled open, Desktop littered 

(when is it not), papers pulled out and still nothing,

 then like a burst water pipe

whoosh 

it all came together.

So here is the NBUS stamp I  finally used.

I used my Derwent  watercolour pencils to colour

 the flower which I then fussy cut out 

(Mainly because the memento ink pad I stamped

the image with bled around the edges just a tad.)

To give more definition I used a silver gel pen

around the petals and veins on the leaves.

Then I spotted two negative die cut squares

'Crafts-Too  Scalloped Edge PCD77'  on my desk

from previous projects and started playing with them 

 on a pink  blank card base and came up with this design.

A quick delve into my pile of silver peel off sheets

and Ta Da my NBUS was born!

Entering into the following challenges:

Darnell's NBUS challenge #7. New, never used flower stamp.

4 Crafty Chicks #314 Fussy cutting.

Little Miss Muffet #145 Anything goes using  any stamp or digi.

Cut It Up Challenge #104 Water colour plus must use a die cut.

Pixies Crafty Workshop #245 Use up your snippets. (water colour card /die cuts)