I’ve been back from Spain for three weeks now – it feels like months! – but haven’t really got back into doing many challenges. I decided to change that today. Especially as yesterday I sat down to have some fun carding and couldn’t create anything. Perhaps I’m just too distracted with the thought that my pre-order containing my new supplies, including the new in colors is on the way.

The challenge banner from the Pals Paper Arts that inspired this card is:

I’m very sad that the Painted Petals set didn’t make it into the new upcoming annual catalogue and so I may possibly be over using this set at the moment! I stamped the flowers in hello honey on very vanilla cardstock and added the stems in the coastal cabana. I then used my aquapainter and baked brown sugar to slightly darken the parts of the flowers which are supposed to be darker. I used the stampin’ write markers in hello honey and baked brown sugar to colour in the sentiment, breathing on the stamp to remoisten the ink before stamping. This card was calling out to be square, so I went with it – it’s fun and easy to make an envelope with the punch board. I changed up the layers a bit – I realised that I normally have only 1/16″ or 1/8″ showing for the mat so decided to do something different i.e. bigger. I like how it draws your eye to the centre of the card which is, after all, the focal point.