When I first saw the new in-colours back in April, I was immediately drawn to three of them. But I wasn’t sure that we needed Powder Pink since we have two other pale pinks (after playing with it, I see that I’m wrong) and I knew that lemon lime twist was just a bit too bright for me and I was only going to be using it in little pops of colour. But after I made yesterday’s card with berry burst, I wanted to make the same basic card in the other colours although I wanted to change it slightly each time. It was a surprise to me that the second card was with lemon lime twist. And I LOVE it!

For this card, I changed the card base from whisper white to lemon lime twist but still left the upper layer in the same colour. I used the same die from Eastern Medallions for my flower and then used my trimmer and Simply Scored to add the score line – this time I went all the way around the layer at a half inch from the border only skipping the actual petals of the flower. I had to add a piece of whisper white between the lemon lime twist layer and the card base for the peek through –  I made it 1/8 inch smaller than the upper layer so that there wouldn’t be an obvious line. Instead, this gives a little lift to the top layer – not as much as dimensionals would do, but a little extra lift.

The central part of the flower features a saying from a new set, Crafting Forever, which I stamped on whisper white and then cut out with the layering circles. I elected to leave the edge border off this time (of course I tried it, but it was too much). Do something creative every day. I think that’s a good idea. I’ll be sharing three more takes on this layout over the next week or so featuring the other three in colors. Here’s a side shot showing the lift on the petals

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See you tomorrow,

Liz