I had previously made a spanish thank you card using the Gracias En Acuarelas stamp set which is equivalent to the Watercolor Thank you set. It occurred to me that the April image from the Stampin’ Up! Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set would make a good background for this. To begin with, I tried making a card with an extra layer but eventually realised that watercolor and layers don’t really make sense. One is fun and not precise and the other is very precise. Don’t you agree?

The imprecise splodge is the “April” image from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar set and I stamped it in pool party on very vanilla. I originally tried whisper white but in its stark white-edness, it seemed to have too much precision also. Or maybe I just haven’t had enough sleep. Anyway, I then stamped the gracias image in lost lagoon – I do much prefer lost lagoon on very vanilla instead of whisper white actually. I then mounted this piece on a base of lost lagoon. The envelope is lined in lost lagoon from, yes, you guessed it, the backgrounds DSP from the incolor 2014 pack.