Stepping up the Painted Stripes Background Stamp

I love the Painted Stripes large background stamp and have been eyeing it for quite a while.  I recently purchased it and made my first card with it today.  It is now official...it's my favorite background stamp... EVER!!

                                                                      

I inked the stamp with Petal Pink by holding the ink pad in my hand and pressing it onto the large stamp.  For me, this is the easiest way to apply the ink to the large surface.

Then I took the flower stamps from Impressions Abloom set and stamped them with Timid Tiger ink.  I stamped off for the solid stamps and used the fully saturated ink for the outline stamps. I stamped the leaves in Lost Lagoon ink.  

I loosely outlined the paint lines with my Lost Lagoon Stampin' Write marker.  Once that was completed, I used the dies from the Impressions Abloom bundle to cut flower centers using the smallest circle die in Basic White and Petal Pink card stock.  I also cut the tiny flowers for my sentiment from the same die set using Lost Lagoon, Petal Pink and Timid Tiger card stock.

I cut a circle from the Stylish Shapes die set in Basic White card stock and used the " thanks" stamp from the Blooming Phrases stamp set in Lost Lagoon ink.  I adhered the tiny flowers in two clusters of three and used dimensionals to raise the sentiment off the surface of the card front.  This casts a slight shadow on my card to create depth. 

I layered a piece of 4" x 5.25" Lost Lagoon card stock onto a Petal Pink A2 card base, then adhered my stamped design onto the Lost Lagoon rectangle. The measurements of my stamped design are 3.75" x 5".

Are you wondering how I came up with the unique color combination?  It is the weekly challenge for the Global Design Project.  You can see my card and what others created with this great color combination on Instagram using #GDP501.  :) I hope you will check them out!