Purple, orange & white flowers.

I needed to make a friend a birthday card so I'm playing along with two challenges from which I got my inspiration:

Annabelle Stamps wanted us to use orange, purple and white.  I like these colors!  Something cheerful yet soothing about them.  (I have previously won a challenge with Annabelle and received some clear stamps.  They are beautiful!  They hold ink well and stamp perfectly and although I have used them, I haven't entered those cards into challenges or posted them online.  One day!)

And the Allsorts Challenge's theme is Blossomin' Blossoms.

So merging those two ideas, I came up with this:

The flowers and centers are made with punches - most are Stampin' Up! (SU!) except the flower with the shredded look.. that punch is from Martha Stewart's line.  The other big flower is a scallop circle punch and I cut petals by cutting towards the center.  I added a little jewel from SU! in the center of the big flowers.  (You can click on the picture to enlarge it.)  I used the awesome white gel pen from SU! on the small flowers.  The text is from a SU! set (coincidentally called 'Wow Flowers').  The bottom of the card was done with a corner punch from Creative Memories.

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