Stamping (and coloring) on black

I love the sharp contrast of stamping on black. A dark background really makes the colors pop.

Unfortunately, the colors popped so much, I went a little crazy with the background papers.  I don't think I did myself any favors with the dayglo color palette.  However, it was fun using some techniques that I haven't used in a  while - dry embossing, watermark stamping, punching a border all around the image (I wish I had remembered the easy way before I started, it looks a little chewed up now, I think), and I don't think I've applied a strip of ribbon without a bow in forever  (I wanted a bow, but the black bow with the black cardstock was too heavy, and other colors just didn't look right).

Are you wondering how I got those bright colors on the black?  I embossed silhouette stamps with white, then colored them in with copics.  I then added little dots of color with my souffle pens.  The stamps are all amuse studio;  The challenge there this week is, of course, stamping on black.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

• Card Crafter's Circle - sketch
• Crafty Creations - winged things
• Fab n Funky - ribbon
• Flutterby Wednesdays - open
• Nutcrafters - coloring
• Sweetstamps - borders