Well I intended this card to be for a challenge calling for hello honey, tangelo twist and pacific point and I added a neutral – sahara sand – but when I went to upload the card to the site, I see that the only neutrals you can use are white, vanilla or black. Oops. Oh well. I find that the benefit of challenges is that it pushes you to try colour combinations that you wouldn’t normally try. As in this case – I’m not fond of blue and yellow together so it was fun to come up with a card that I liked with this combination.

It’s snowing outside as I type this so it’s rather nice to be looking at an autumnal scene! I stamped the tree from the Stampin’ Up! Sheltering Tree set in sahara sand on sahara sand card stock. I then used hello honey to stamp the large foliage stamp. I then took the little stamp meant to be the flower heads and stamped it all over the tree using tangelo twist. The bike frame is stamped in my favourite black, memento black ink. I love that the regular stampin’ mist will clean the stamp rather than having to use the special cleaner. The sentiment is also from the Sheltering Tree set and is stamped in tangelo twist. The layer is mounted on a tangelo twist base. I debated whether to use a crumb cake or very vanilla envelope and in the end went for very vanilla. Of course it would’ve been easy to have made my own in sahara sand using the envelope punch board. I’ve lined the envelope using the Backgrounds DSP from the in colours family in tangelo twist.