Catching up on Stars and Stamps

I've been a bit distracted by 365 Cards this week! So here's a catch-up post for Stars and Stamps.

First, Colour Challenge #2 - make a card inspired by these beautiful spring flowers. I made a card for this challenge a few days ago but I was so pleased with the design that I saved it to submit for Sketch Sunday instead. That means I had to make another card for this... I decided I really wanted to use bright-coloured flowers on my card.

I stamped out some backgrounds a few days ago (if I go to the trouble of lining up the alphabet stamps on the acrylic block I stamp at least half a dozen images because they're such a hassle to position right!), and one of them was the vivid yellow of these flowers. I added some crumpled tissue paper to the card and then went to town with my prima and silk flowers.

Next we move on to Sunday Sketch #6. Make a card using this sketch. It reminds me of a Window and I thought briefly of making a cut-out-window card... but I'm trying to catch up here, not get complicated, so a simple scrap card it was! I save everything that's more than 2 inches square, so a card like this is a good way to use up some of the pieces.

I pulled out my blue scrap box to find some rectangles, and the first thing that caught my eye was a cute polar bear ready-to-use! I had to make him the center of the card... so Winter it was. I had plenty of Wintery scraps to finish the card and he can go into my Christmas Card box to await his time.