Black, plus Yellow Card ~ Oriental Stamp Art Mingle

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Hullo there everyone. 

In later part of last year I joined through a friend the OSA Yahoo group - OSA stands for Oriental Stamp Art ( for more details, click here). 

In Mingles, we send each card to another OSA member chosen in from those who said they will take part, and we receive one in turn.

My friend Anne does some lovely work with it -see here, and here. She inspired me along with Annette of Artneko Stamps to join - see Annette's bundle when it came over here, and if you go to her website here you see she has great stamps and very good price - and SEE some are reduced for sale at the moment!

The image I used was on my desk on WOYWW last week and was coloured using my sister's Prismacolors and the background was coloured with lightly with yellow chalk

The OSA challenge of the current Black plus one colour mingle ~ January is Yellow and so decided to use one of the Artneko atc the Hibiscus - we even have one like this in our garden, above is bloom from it.

The card elements are:

Chinese fishing marker

1. Artneko Hibiscus flower ATC stamp, inked.

2. Black card is actually embossed with Cuttlebug Chinese embossing folder background called Oriental Screen.

3. The yellow and black Chinese/ Japanese paper was free download of older paper scanned from Annette of Artneko on the OSA site. I was very grateful for it.. love it. I have printed in varying colours. Unfortunately some aspects of card dont come out in photos but in the colouring I lightly used black to shade leaves etc, and various yellow.  

I also wanted to share something my brother in law, Greg, found washed upon his beach as flotsam.. I thought it amazing and have had it for years now and he was not sure how old it was.

 It is a Chinese Fishing marker; he said some Chinese staying with them translated it, but he does not think he has it written down.

Decided to take it with the sea in the background at his place. it is attached to bamboo with sturdy looking rope at the side.

Thanks so very much everyone for popping over for a peek and chat, and may God bless your day wherever you may be,

Shaz in Oz.x

I would Like to enter this card in the following challenges:

 Papertake Weekly Challenge - anything goes! 

 Simon Says Challenge - Embrace the old.. the Chinese Paper on this was from old design - alsou under it al thought you cannot se it is an older sheet of art paper in black/gold yellow.

 Stamping Sensations Monthly Challenge -  Friendship, this is going to fellow OSA member. Also the Hibiscus, which inspired this card was a cutting from the plant of someone dear now gone, but not forgotten.

Anything goes Challenge - Just good friends, as above.

The Crafty Bloggers Network - Flowers.  Hibiscus

Crafty Boots Challenge - Black and bright! (Yellow)
Let's Craft and Create - Anything goes 

EDIT: This card also made into top three at Stamping Sensations.
I think awards like this mean so much as they are from your peers, fellow crafters who you admire so much  so THANK you!!