Minky Girl!!!

One of my newer Stampotique stamps is

called, "Minky Girl".

Isn't she lovely?

Well, I think she's simply divine!

The current challenge over at

Stampotique's Designer's challenge blog is,

"Red, Orange, and Yellow".

Next to the color blue, those are probably the colors

I use the least often.

Talk about a challenge! 

I stamped, heat embossed, and colored "Minky" with Copics.

I used some Tim Holtz Distress Inks (loving these!) to paint the 

background around the image to match the bg paper. I also

(over) used them to distress the whole thing and give it a grungy feel.

I added some chipboard fleurs and some red half pearls to tie it all

together  and give it more interest and balance.

I threw in a pretty fleur for the first picture,

but found that it made the red in the card appear more pink.

I took out the pretty fleur and want to submit this for the aforementioned,

Stampotique challenge.