A bit of Distress Ink Fun

I am terrible with sketches. TERRIBLE !! I usually avoid them like the plague, but I just recently used some Unity stamps for a challenge and discovered that they also have a monthly challenge. The challenge actually didn't require that you use the sketch, you could use their colour inspiration instead and/or as well.
 I had been playing with  a stamp from the Quiet Essence set, which I repeatedly stamped on watercolour paper and heat embossed in white. I used painters tape to mask off part of the paper and applied TH Distress Inks and sprayed them with Shimmer Spritz. So sad that I couldn't get all that shimmer to show up in the photo :( So, since I had this piece that seemed to be going a similar way as the sketch, I decided to keep going and try to follow the sketch.
The flower is from the same set, it only has leaves on one side, but I used a stamp positioner to add them to each side. I fussy cut three copies of the flower and layered them up. I put Wink of Stella on the flower and leaves and used Stickles in the flower centre. The washi tape is by MME, and the soft blue side of the card is coloured with Gelato mixed with a lot of water and applied with a brush.

It's amazing that this poor card turned out at all, considering that I dropped the watercoloured piece on the floor and ran over it TWICE with my chair while searching for it. D'OH !!
You can find the Unity challenge here : http://www.theunitystampco-challenge.blogspot.ca/2014/03/feel-better-soon.html
If you like challenges, it looks like they run quite a few. I'm still very new to their site, so I need to investigate further, but I do know a lot of people who seem rather addicted! LOL!