more recycling

Hello, my friends.  Even when I was a child, my family was recycling and reusing things, so it is just a continuation for me to do it today when it's the 'in thing' to be 'green'. 

The background on my card is actually a piece of junk mail.  I used pool and purple twilight paint dabbers to color over the entire surface.  When that was dry, I lightly brushed on some gesso.  I found this trash to treasure technique here. 

The flower, which is colored with markers, was in my stash already cut out.  I thought it would look nice with the background, but I was really stuck on how to finish off the card. 

I finally decided to use a ribbon punch (SU) to add some extra color (cool caribbean, sponged with turquoise, & elegant eggplant, sponged with elegant eggplant). 

The sentiment is stamped with black pigment ink and clear embossed. 

For a bit of sparkle, I rubbed diamond stickles on both the flower center and the card stock strips.