As I’ve already mentioned, I’m attending a crop weekend soon. In fact it’s this coming weekend and my sister has flown over from the UK in order to attend. We’re working on our gifts for the secret pal swap including trying to figure out packaging – I’m getting quite fond of making little boxes. One of the suggestions regarding the secret pal is to send a card beforehand. I know that my recipient likes bright colours and green. So here’s what I came up with:

I figured that a weekend set aside for crafting really needs celebrating! My base is pear pizzazz with very vanilla on top. When I got my Fabulous Four set, I first stamped it with just the word “celebrate” and I was having to mask off the rest of the sentiment. It occurred to me that I’m likely to want just the “celebrate” more than with the rest of the words and decided to cut off the rest of it. The upside is that the two pieces fit perfectly together so that I can put them on a clear block any time I want the complete sentiment as Stampin’ Up! originally intended. The sentiment was also stamped in pear pizzazz.

I used one of the small flower innards from Flower Patch to decorate the rest of the card in pear pizzazz, tempting turquoise and rich razzleberry. The colour coach suggested this combination and I like how the colours work together. I added a rhinestone to the centre of each rich razzleberry stamp – for some reason two of them don’t look perfectly sparkly in the photo, but I can assure you that they are!

I used the backgrounds DSP in pear pizzazz to line my envelope.