Stuck On You

You know, I've got several brand-new stamp sets that I haven't even inked up at all yet, plus several more that I've only played with once, so what do I do?  I make cards with retired stamp sets.  I can't help it, sometimes I see a challenge and I'm like OOH I have the perfect stamps for that and there sit my new stamps like what about us???  Yeah yeah, I'll get to you, I promise.  (I hope.)

Anyway.

As soon as I saw the Inspired By Nature challenge, I knew I had to break out one of my retired cactus stamp sets--I have both Cactus Cuties from last year and Flowering Cactus from the year prior, so for this card I used Cactus Cuties with the DSP stack that coordinated with Flowering Cactus.

I used the sketch as a jumping-off point too, though I didn't follow it strictly:

And I was inspired by the colors from The Card Concept:

I think my card kind rides the line between CAS and clean and layered, but since most of the "white space" is patterned paper it probably leans to clean and layered.  I have a friend who is moving to Arizona this summer, so I know she'll be getting this : )

Don't forget about the Go Green challenge at SUO Challenges too, you can use current or retired SU! stuff for that one, just show us shades of green.

Hope you have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cactus Cuties
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Thick Very Vanilla, Flowering Cactus DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Dimensionals, Rustic Metallic Dots