Ginormous Thank You

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This card is for Beate's weekend sketch challenge. It uses two of my new sets--Ginormous Flowers and Short & Sweet. Short & Sweet is similar to the Winter Mini set Small Sayings, which I really like. You can never have too many sentiments, can you? It's always a challenge to find just the *right* one for a card, whether it is the words you want to use or the look you want to have . . .

I'm not sure what it is about Ginormous Flowers that is making me think about earth tones. Both of the cards I've done with it so far have been more "Earth Elements" than the traditional bright or pastel floral colors. For this one, I've used Really Rust (don't use that color much), Ruby Red, Groovy Guava, and Soft Sky for the flowers. Before I stamped the flowers, I stamped the Linen background on the Very Vanilla cardstock. The flower images are stamped right over the Linen. I like the way this looks--it keeps it from looking like there's too much harsh "white space" between the flowers.

I used the new five petal flower punch to punch out flowers for the accent pieces on either side of the main image panel. There's a tiny rhinestone glued at the center of each flower. It looks a little busy to me with the flowers at the sides, but other than that I really like how this turned out.

In other news, I have just discovered that am one of the many SU! demos/customers with a defective scalloped circle punch. It worked the first time I used it, but when I tried it again tonight, no go. I was thinking about using it on one of my yet-to-be-completed swaps for convention, but I guess I'll have to scrap that plan and come up with something else . ..

Materials Used:

From Stampin' Up!: Ginormous Flowers, Short & Sweet, and Linen stamp sets; Really Rust, Ruby Red, So Saffron, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, and Old Olive Classic inks; Groovy Guava, Ruby Red, Really Rust, and Very Vanilla cardstock; Fall Flowers designer paper; 1 3/8" circle punch; word window punch; five petal flower punch; dimensionals

Other: copper brad (Making Memories); rhinestones (Walmart); 1 1/2" circle punch (EK Success)