Using leftovers

Today, I have two cards to share, as well as a layout.

I made the two cards using some leftover Fresh Cut Floral die cuts that I had 

stored with my dies.

I'm linking them up to the Wplus9 Birthday Celebration, Week 2 contest: Step It Up,

where the challenge is to add dimension to our cards.

They're very similar, both using Fresh Cut Floral stamps & die cuts 

and a sentiment from Funky Feathers.

I also used some PTI card stock, buttons & twine.

I heat embossed my sentiment with sea foam white embossing powder.

And, I have  a layout to share.

I came across my Create: Sketches book from last spring recently and remembered 

my challenge to created a layout using each sketch in the book.

Well, obviously that fell by the wayside a bit, 

but I thought I'd continue with the challenge.

I was trying to remember why I'd stopped, when I noticed the next sketch:

It's a sketch where they want you to use a really large photo. 

For a 12x12 layout, I'd have to use an 8x12" photo, which I didn't have.

However, I did find an 8x10 in my photos, so I decided to use it for my layout.

I used some Basic Grey patterned paper & embellishments.

I also used my PTI Book Print dies (uppercase & numbers) and some stamps from

my Destination stamp set.

If you create a layout using this sketch,

please link it here in my comments or here in the PTI forum.

Thanks for looking!