A BEAUTIFUL LAYERED HYDRANGEA CARD

Here I am again, having done another new card.  This one was tedious, but fairly simple.  All you need is a good sized stamp of a flower or something decorative like a medallion.  Then cut 4 pieces of white paper - each piece 1/2 in. smaller in height and width than the one before it.  Then stack them centered, one on top of the other, starting with the largest on the bottom.  If necessary, put temporary adhesive between the layers to hold them in place.  Then stamp your image on top of this stack, making sure that the papers don't move.  Next, mat each stamped piece with a piece of card stock (same color for all) exactly 1/8 inch larger in dimensions.  Glue the matted papers on top of each other, being careful to match up the image pieces.  Color if desired - I did.  Then place on the front of your card.  Here's a picture of mine:

This is the card I designed for My Pink Stamper's Design Team Contest.  We had to design a card, scrapbook page or other similar project using the colors pink, brown, and green, plus one other color of our choice.  I chose black.  Of course, I and all the other 1,000 people who probably entered, have delusions of grandeur that "I might be one of the lucky ones she chooses". I would love to be on the design team for anything pertaining to scrapbooking, cards, etc. Here are the instructions for this card:

The base card is A.C. Moore brown paper. The card measures 6" X 5". (The 2nd envelope in George and Basic Shapes cut "fit to page" is the perfect size envelope for this card, incidentally.)
The green matt paper also is from A.C. Moore stock. It measures approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4".
My "other color choice" was black, and this is a scrap from a DCWV glittered black and white card stock. It measures 4 1/2" x 3"
The two light pink stars are both cut from George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge at 4". This was a glossy (although you can't tell it in the photo) piece of pink cardstock that was in the giveaway pile at a crop I went to.
The "girl" was cut at 2 1/2" from the Graphically Speaking cartridge using Leaving Prints hot pink cardstock.
"Way to Go" was cut at 1 3/4" from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge, also using the Leaving Prints hot pink cardstock.
The ribbon is from Paper Trey Ink, and I used Stickles to give the word "girl" some sparkle.

This little project took me hours, as I had designed it on the Gypsy, and then I couldn't get the Gypsy to work on either my Expression or my Imagine. So, then I had to go back and re-figure which cartridges I had used and hunt them up, along with the key pads. Most annoying. Rest assured, I will be on the phone to ProvoCraft tomorrow, so I can get my Gypsy back up to par again. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my project and lengthy post.