Polka-dot Posies Pair

Things are finally running right in my house! Both landline phone and internet are working as of this morning. Hopefully this will be the end of the issues . . .

Here are a pair of cards I did for today's sketch challenge on SCS. I used some of the pieces of patterned paper from a huge DCWV stack that I had used on other cards earlier in the week for them. I pulled out a bunch of sets that had images that would have worked well with the circle images on this sketch (In the Spotlight, Priceless, just to name a few) before settling on Polka-dot Posies. This is such a fun, cheery set.

I love the images stamped in black and red. The first time I used this set was at a shoebox swap and the card we made was black and red. It was what sold me on the set. I used this black and white polka dotted paper and pieces of red, white and black cardstock.

It's hard to see in the photo, but the flower centers are punched out with a 3/4" circle punch and attached to the larger image with dimensionals. There's a red self-adhesive rhinestone at the centers.

The sentiment is from the Never a Loss 4 Words set from Kitchen Sink Stamps. I used a scrap of velvet ribbon (I'm really trying to use the scraps in my almost overflowing ribbon jar . . .) to anchor the sentiment tag on the front of the card.

The second card is the same as the first, except for the color scheme. I was looking a this patterned paper and thought that the doodle-like flower images were similar to the flower image from the stamp set. It's really, really bright, but fun.

On this one, I used a scrap of green stitched grosgrain ribbon along with the sentiment.

Which do you like better? I'm not sure . . .

I'll be sharing my card for the Sketches {by Tamara} weekly card sketch tomorrow morning before I leave for work. Stop by to check it out if you're interested in another sketch to try.

Materials Used: Never a Loss 4 Words stamp set (Kitchen Sink Stamps); Polka-dot Posies stamp set, Real Red, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise, and Green Galore Classic inks, Real Red, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, Gable Green, and Whisper White cardstock, 3/4", 1 1/4", and 1 3/8" circle punches, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); patterned paper (DCWV); brad (Making Memories); ribbon and self adhesive rhinestones (Michaels)