Winnie The Pooh Happy Birthday To You Card

I love how this one turned out , 

using a new to me rubber stamp I

found at a flea market recently.

I stamped the image with permanent black ink

onto white card stock then colored it in

with colored pencils.

I used and aquapainter and ink to watercolor the sky.

The decorative background paper is from the

Die Cuts With  A View paper stack I've not used

until the other day. 

The Happy Birthday banners are made with a stamp set from

Stampin' Up! and attached with a staple.

The next cards I make I'll stagger the blue banner just above

the gray one so it is read as happy, happy birthday.

It didn't even dawn on me to do that when I put this

one together until after it was completed.

I'm entering this as my third and final entry into the 

Never Before Used Schtuff challenge #4. 

I still have dozens of cards I've made to donate to

Operation Write Home 

to share here on the blog ! I've been busy.

Thanks for looking =)