Ray's Birthday card

Here is the card that I did for my hubby's birthday.  We both love rhodies and have been in the Portland chapter of the American Rhododendron Society (ARS) since 1984.  Many years ago, I drew up this rhodie and had it made into a rubber stamp.  The stamp was really too little for this card, so I scanned in the stamped image and decided that it was too grainy.  Then I blew the size up pretty big and redrew it, rescanned, cleaned up and printed it out as this size.  Colored it with copics.  The BG piece is a Cuttlebug highlights piece and the flower uses 'out of the box' technique.  The sentiment is from SU.  I decided that I love this so much that this layout and image will be my thank you cards this year for the ARS trophy donors.  So that means I'll be making about 26 more of these but with thank you instead of "it's your day'.  Since my time is limited, I scanned in the image above that took me a long time to color and will print out the other 26!  My image so I can do as I wish!  Yeah!!   I did enter this in the #5 Red Hot Challenge at DYSU.  Here is the link to that challenge!

I'm the trophy chairman in charge or purchasing the beautiful trophies we have every year for our Mother's Day Show.  I get to buy, glassware, china, pottery, metalware, etc.  It is a lot of fun to spend other people's money.  I buy things that I would like to win since I have won a few over the years.  Hope you enjoy the card.