I’m using the partial thanks sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Fabulous Four stamp set again today for another challenge – this time run by AAA cards.

I say partial – I cut off the second line of the sentiment so that I can add it when I like but I don’t have to mask it when I don’t want it. The two pieces obviously fit together perfectly so it’s simple to stamp with them both when I wish. Yesterday’s card required some fairly major ruler use, today’s not at all. In fact, I tried doing a rather random placement of the flower centres/ starbursts but I’ve come to the conclusion that random doesn’t really work in stamping. You either end up with an awkward space not big enough for another image or two of the images are too close together. Or, as I found yesterday, you’ve managed to make them almost in straight lines which looks sloppy because they aren’t quite lined up.

This is about my fourth version and I’m happy with it  – although now that I look at the photo, not ecstatic. I think I can further improve the placement. I like having three of each colour and them being arranged in triangles.

The colours that I chose, using the color coach are melon mambo, pumpkin pie and crushed curry and I stamped them on very vanilla. I adore these three colours together which really surprises me because they are so bold and not something I’d have tried on my own. But I think that they make for an incredibly joyful card. As I mentioned above, the sentiment is my doctored stamp from the Fabulous Four stamp set. The other image is from the Stampin’ Up! Flower Patch set and is intended to be one of the centres of the flowers but it stands well on its own. I glued the card to a pumpkin pie base and lined the envelope with the backgrounds DSP in pumpkin pie.