Happy Easter - 2 Challenges

Hey, the weekend is almost over.   How did that happen?
My friend Kris hosted a card making event on Saturday.  We had sooooo much fun!  I've met so many wonderful women through this obsession hobby of mine.  It's such a blessing.

In addition to the cards we made on Saturday, I managed to find a few minutes late today to create a card for 2 challenges.

CAS-ual Fridays CFC #45

We've been challenged to use a project using pastels and black.

Retro Sketches RS#4

I've played along at CAS-ual Friday's many times. It's one of my favorite challenge blogs.  But, this is my first time joining in at retro sketches.  Ya' gotta love that hand drawn, coffee stained sketch!  How fun :)

Anyway, my card combines both challenges.  Take a look...

When the CAS-ual Friday's challenge was to use pastels with black, I knew that I wanted to use a soft yellow.  We have some beautiful yellow tulips blooming; so that's the reason yellow came to my mind right away.
I kept this card fairly simple.  Since I wanted to use just the one pastel color with black, I added some texture to the card base.  Interest without added colors.  For the blooms in my stamped image, I added just a touch of color with a Prismacolor pencil.  The rest is pretty straightforward.
I'm going to have to cut short this post.  Tomorrow is a work day and I've still got some things to accomplish before bedtime.
Thanks for taking a look!

What's in it?

card stock: barely banana, whisper white (SU)

stamps: easter blossoms (SU)

ink: onyx black (Versafine)

other: lace impressions plate (PTI), sand colored pencil (Prismacolor), standard circles large die (Spellbinders), dimensional adhesive, corner rounder