Birthday card & new technique

I love this patterned paper -- it is from the Basic Grey Kioshi 6x6 pad.  The flower was stamped on watercolor paper, embossed with White Zing embossing powder, then I used Spun Sugar Distress Stain to color it.  Then I sprayed (a little bit too much) Perfect Pearls mist over it and cut it out.  The stamp is Hero Arts "Classic Bloom."  I made the leaves by using Peeled Paint Distress Stain on plain card stock, then punching circles, and punching a bit of the circle out of that to make a leaf shape.  Then I used a bone folder to score some "veins" in the leaf.  The flower just needed a little something, you know?