CAS - Colours and Sketches #75

Hello!  This week’s CAS – Colours and Sketches challenge is a sketch challenge.  Although the sketch has hexagons drawn on it, you’re welcome to use any similarly sized geometric shape.  So long as we can see the basic elements and layout of the sketch, it’s all good.

I’ve combined the sketch challenge with the current AEIHeartU challenge to use botanicals.  My most recent Avery Elle purchase arrived earlier this week, so I was able to put the floral stamps to use right away!  These flowers are actually kind of accent stamps for a sentiment set.  I originally planned to stamp the flowers, fussy cut them, and mount them on die-cut hexagons.  But the sizes of my hexagon dies were either too large or too small to look right.  After searching through the rest of my dies, I finally chose to use scalloped circles.  I sponged the edges of the circles so they’d show off better against the textured white background.  Once I mounted the flowers onto the circles, I realized that the scalloped shape and the sponging inadvertently make the circles look like they are part of the flowers.  But I view that as kind of a happy accident.  The sentiment comes from a different Avery Elle set. It’s amusing to me that I’ve used some of my newest stamps with some of my oldest cardstock and ink – the purples and green have been retired for several years now. But I think they combine nicely for a card suitable for Operation Write Home.

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you’ll join us over at CAS – Colours and Sketches with your own take on this sketch!  You have until 1:00 p.m. eastern time Wednesday, May 28 to link your card at the challenge website.

Supplies:
Stamps: Oh Happy Day, Simply Said Hello (Avery Elle)
Cardstock: Almost Amethyst, Lovely Lilac, Whisper White, Whisper White textured (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Almost Amethyst, Lovely Lilac, Green Galore (SU)
Other: Big Scalloped Circle Nestabilities die (Spellbinders)