Are you ready for my Paper Pumpkin February 2016 Alternate 3?  It doesn’t even have melon mambo on it, I think that’s five days in a row without pink now! Oddly, I wouldn’t say that I’m a pink fanatic, it just seems to work so well with balloons. Maybe that’s my next challenge – a balloon card without pink. I’ll have to think about that!

I realised the other day that the 2014-2016 in colours are only going to be around for another three months unless they are saved by a colour refresh. And I really love mossy meadow, lost lagoon and blackberry bliss so there may be a bit more use of them for a while.

I started by stamping the sentiment from the Paper Pumpkin Hello Sunshine set in mossy meadow and then added the flowers in blackberry bliss but I stamped off once first. One tip is to look at the image when you’re stamping off to ensure it’s a good clean image otherwise you’re not going to get a good image when you stamp on your card. This feels almost Japanese – I assume it’s because the flowers are reminding me of cherry blossoms. I also added a flower to the inside – you can just see a hint of it. I matted this piece of very vanilla with a piece of mossy meadow just 1/8 inch bigger and then put that on the blackberry bliss card base. I didn’t have any mossy meadow or blackberry bliss envelope liners precut and with my ankle still quite a problem (as any of my Fitbit friends can see – I’m getting about 1000 steps per day at the moment) I didn’t want to trek to the other end of the house for the DSP box. Instead I used the embossing folder spring flowers (which I’ve just noticed is retired) and embossed the envelope flap.

I’m going to go and put my feet up for a while, call my sister and then play some more with my carding supplies. A nice peaceful day.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz