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Hello everyone!  Popping in with a card for a few challenges:  Freshly Made Sketches, Color Throwdown and the Flower Challenge.    I reached way back into my stamp collection and pulled out the first two stamp sets that I purchased from Altenew:  Label Love and Painted Flowers.   The first time I saw the Painted Flowers stamp set I was immediately fascinated with it and had to have it.   Sadly once I got it I hardly ever used it.   I hope that I'm not the only one who does that!  I stamped two of the flowers in the set using Altenew Crisp inks in Crimson and Velvet and then in MFT Daffodil and Hero Arts Butter Bar so that I ended up with three red flowers and three yellow flowers.  The outlines for each flower was stamped using Altenew Crisp ink in Evergreen (to bring in the green) and then the accents in the leaves with Altenew Crisp inks in Frayed Leaf and Forest Glade.   Once all the stamping was done I die cut all the flowers with the matching Painted Flowers dies.   I determined pretty quickly that the flowers would look best clustered together.  So per the sketch I used two yellow flowers up top and then three red flowers down below.   A piece of white cardstock was die cut with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle die and then cut in to two pieces to create the center strip.  The lower piece of the panel was trimmed down a bit more to create a bigger gap and then both pieces were adhered with foam tape to a kraft cardstock base to bring in the kraft color from the CTD inspiration.  The flowers were then attached and I finished things off with the simple "hello" sentiment from the Label Love that was stamped in Altenew Permanent Black ink.  Thought about adding some gems, but decided not to this time around.  Love the clean and simple look of the card.  (Compensated affiliate links used in my post where possible.)

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