I made this card for a challenge at TGIF Challenges last month but missed the deadline. For some reason it took me a bit of effort to combine pool party, crushed curry and calypso coral, but here’s what my entry would have been.

This is the first card that I’ve made with the set Garden in Bloom but not quite the first using the greetings framelits dies – I seem to have overused the thanks rather. Not that it’s a bad thing to want to thank people, but perhaps I should let the die cool off a bit! The Garden in Bloom contains two step stamps; here I stamped the outline in calypso coral and, although it looks as if I did something clever with the crushed curry, the second stamp is designed not to give total coverage but more of a watercolour look.

The thanks is of course cut out in pool party and I used the same colour to create a skinny mat around the piece of very vanilla. This was then mounted on a very vanilla card base. The envelope is lined using the now retired backgrounds DSP in the subtles collection but of course the Designer Series Paper stacks in subtles would be an excellent replacement – I have those too but I had an already cut out liner in pool party.

See you tomorrow,

Liz