another triple play?!

as someone who is generally not a great combiner of more than one challenge, please forgive me for being excited that i've managed it again! to wit, i have taken this week's magnificent offering from sketchy thursdays:

along with challenge #70--"flower power" at the shabby tea room, for which we're to use both flowers generally and the color scheme of the inspiration photo:

and this week's brief at shopping our stash (#8) which is to use either our really old stuff or our brand spankin' new stuff:

(patterned papers: old: sei (pink dot) and creative imaginations (notebook); new: kaiser (decoratively punched mat layers); cardstock: ranger (of medium age); poppy stamps: pti; inks: ranger di's, glimmer mist, smooch spritz, colorbox chalks; "celebrate" sticker (which came over on the mayflower!): bo bunny; fabric flower: kirsty vittetoe; adhesives: tombow monorunner, 3m doublestick tape)

for the last, i've done a bit of both, having mixed elederly sei & creative imaginations papers (that i still love) with a just-got-it-friday kaiser paper pad. the clear sentiment sticker is also old enough for a bus pass, not to mention the scalloppy scissors, which i think were my very first papercrafting tool purchase back in the day. whereas the poppy stamp only arrived this week, and not only is this is my first time "test driving" it, i also tried a new technique in which i stamped the base image and then, a little frustrated that i was not getting the right "mix" of distress inks and mists i had blended on my craft sheet, i went back with a little brush to darken the centers. (later i added some black stickles, in the very middle, for seeds.)

i'd love to take credit for the amazing rolled fabric rose-n-bow combination, but that was created by my lovely friend kirsty vittetoe, it came on my birthday present! at the very end of the card, when it needed one more thing, i spotted that gorgeous bit of ribbony goodness and literally "tied one on!!!" :)

i have to say i am pretty pleased with this one, so much so that i immediately used the exact same stamp (& a few of these papers, as well--unheard of!) on a completely different-looking card for this month's pixie dust paperie challenge that will begin on 7-20. i can't wait to show it to you on wednesday! ♥

ETA 24 hours later: many thanks to miss diana for the head's up with regard to moxie fab world's "fanatical about botanical" where they are looking for realistic, but graphically innovative interpretations of the botanical style... which i think this is, actually, and as it was created during the challenge i feel ok about "retrofitting" it by one day! :)