Weekend Sketch Challenge #44

This is my entry for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #44.

Each flower is made from four small punched heart shapes stuck to a 1/4" circle, with a stamen punch in the centre. The shapes were all punched from white printer paper. The petals were sponged with colour taken from a marker, and then shaped. The stamens were coloured with markers, and then had Stickles glitter glue added to them. The leaves were punched out of the same Bazzill card stock as I used for the background, and then the lines were added with a needle tool. The flowers and leaves were fairly quick to make - but, as usual, the arranging took me ages!

The green background was cut into four, with two pieces stamped with Versamark clear ink and embossed with transparent embossing powder. The other two were run through the Cuttlebug in the Swiss Dots folder. The coral coloured mat layer behind the flowers is white card which was sponged round the edges using the ink from the same marker as that used on the flowers. I really need to get a proper sponge - for this I used a piece cut off of a dishwashing sponge (new one!).