Wonderful World, Part 2

Large stamps are often difficult to work with on clean-and-simple cards, but as Sunday's simple card showed, if you work with the shape of the large stamp, you can certainly have fun with it.

Sunday's square card balanced curves and angles, symmetry (centered circle on a square) and asymmetry (three flitting butterflies of different sizes in an irregular triangle; the soft, multicolor pastel background).

Today's cards--landscape rather than square--give a little room to embellish with a background. A sharply defined shape (like the large circle) needs something loose and organic to balance it, so I made two different cards with botanical embellishments that ground the circle with two radically different color schemes.

Warm, bold, and bright!

Cool, soft, and natural.
(exclamation point inappropriate here)

Oh, my! These two cards make my heart happy. I hope they make your heart happy, too!

Mercy, grace, peace, and love,
Susan



Supplies
stamps: Serendipity (sentiment); Papertrey Life (top card); Papertrey Gathered Garden (bottom card)
ink: various dye inks
paper: Papertrey white
accessories: craft foam, glue