Enjoy Your Day

The sketch for the current challenge at Try a Sketch on Tuesday inspired the design of my card.

I had the die cut background panel left over from another project. It's been sitting on my desk, & I decided to use it finally for this card. I cut a piece of white cardstock to 4x5-1/4" (the size of my panel) & glued the die cut panel to that. I wanted it to be there, but subtle, hence the white-on-white. Then I die cut a window in the panel with one of  Creative Expressions' "Octagon" dies (discontinued). To make a narrow frame for that, I die cut another octagon from green cardstock with the same die. Without removing the die, I traced around the outer edge. Then I was able to cut around that with scissors. Finally I glued that to my panel & adhered a scrap of patterned paper behind the window.

I used Altenew's "Vintage Flowers" layering stamp set & coordinating dies for my focal element. I decided to go with peachy-orange for the large flower, & used blue on the smaller ones, since blue is the complement of orange. After stamping the flowers & leaves, I die cut them & glued them to my card front. I used a bit of foam tape to pop up the main flower.

For the greeting, I pulled out one of my new favorites, "Sentiment Strips: Birthday" from Pretty Pink Posh. I stamped it on green cardstock with Memento Bamboo Leaves ink & die cut it into a banner with one of the "Sentiment Strips" dies. I glued it to my panel so the banner end slightly overlaps the bottom blue flower, just to make the design more cohesive.

To assemble my card, I trimmed about 1/16" off each side of my background panel, and adhered it to a 4-1/8x5-3/8" mat. Finally I adhered that to my white A2 card base.

I'm also entering my card in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge: "Layer It Up/Use Ephemera"

Creative Knockouts Challenge #554: "Lots of Layers"

The Paper Funday Challenge #80: "Anything Goes" (not playing the optional twist)

Ellibelle's Corner Crafty Wednesday Challenge: "Anything Goes"

Ellibelle's Corner Garden Party Challenge #7: "Anything in or from a Garden"

Die Cut Divas September Challenge: "Anything Goes"

613 Avenue Create's September Challenge: "Anything Goes" (not playing the optional twist)

Double Trouble Challenge #199: "Sweet Surprise" (also TSOT Challenge #678)