LET'S BE ADVENTURERS . . . CREATING PRETTY CARDS - SKETCH CHALLENGE 25

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I began with a piece of Pistachio Pudding card stock, which I stamped with the large floral/decorative image from Happy Day stamp set.  I stamped the image using Pistachio Pudding, Perfect Plum, and Soft Suede ink.  I then stamped the Off the Grid image using Early Espresso ink and used the same color to sponge the edges of the card stock before giving it texture with the Honeycomb embossing folder.  A Q-tip was used to lightly apply some Silver Sparkle Dazzling Details to some of the embossed hexagon shapes, and the globe image from the Wanderlust stamp set was stamped in the bottom right corner.  Two other images from Wanderlust were stamped and cut out to create the tags on the Soft Suede strip of card stock, which features the Chevron embossing folder.  I wrapped a strip of Perfect Plum taffeta ribbon around the card stock layers.  On a small strip of ribbon, I tied knots in both ends, folded the ribbon in half, and adhered it to the other ribbon.  No matter what I did, the ribbon just didn't look right when I slipped the short piece under the already-adhered ribbon and tied it in a knot, and I thought this was a fun way to add a little something different to the card.  I thought it was interesting that I started out planning to only use Happy Day to create this card and, in the end, you can barely tell that I used that set.  All products used on this card are from Stampin' Up!, and I think the glimmer brad is the only product that I didn't already mention.  Now it's your turn to create something for Creating Pretty Cards - Sketch Challenge 25!