Flowers and Sparkles Stamped Watercolor Background Paper Card

I was going to show you the lavender background in this 4 set series, but couldn't get away from these lovely peachy pinks.  Unlike last week's card HERE, I embossed the floral design in Florida Sunset WOW! Embossing Powders.  Rather than brushing on a watercolor wash, here I dipped my paper into a watery puddle of Dried Marigold, Tattered Rose, and Scattered Straw Distress Inks.

The pattern is the same, but the result is quite different.  I was playing around with ideas for the focal image and decided to watercolor the stamp and cut it out to layer over the card, but it didn't turn out like I wanted.  Later, I decided to cut the different flowers out and make one big flower embellishment with them, curling the petals like I did in my paper flower tutorial HERE.  I just happened to have a brad that was exactly the color of the Florida Sunset EP - awesome!  So I used it for the center.

Here's a shot of the components of the flower.

And all of them glued together.

My theme this week was sparkle and look how this EP shines!  I even added some gelli roll ink highlights to the sentiment to make it shine too.

I had grunge the card up a bit, you know me!  So I distressed the edges and sponged the sentiment.  I hope you'll come back next Tuesday to see the third paper in this series.  I'm linking up to the Tuesday Night Bloghop at Unity HERE, to Crafty Cardmakers & More for challenge #148, Make it Sparkle HERE, and to SSS Wednesday for their No Designer Paper Challenge HERE.  Thanks for looking!