One thing I’m grateful for today is the sketch that Jane gave us over at CAS Colours & Sketches this week. Yesterday I shared a card inspired by the sketch and one of the entries into the challenge, here’s another. I’m sticking with yesterday’s floral motif, but today I’m using Grateful Bunch.

The embossed square was first cut out and then embossed with another retired folder, Spring Flowers. I love this one – it creates such a happy look, I often use it on envelope flaps for birthdays. I stamped the flowers in blushing bride on the same colour card stock and punched them out with the blossom bunch punch. The stamp and punch are awesome in that they do three flowers at a time in three different sizes. In the event, the smallest flower was too small to have a dot, so I stamped and punched another medium sized flower which was just right (are you thinking of Goldilocks too?). Whilst I had the ink out, I stamped the sentiment, from Rose Wonder and also the #Imbringingbirthdaysback onto the envelope.

Then it was construction time – I used fast fuse to securely fix the embossed piece to the card and then added very vanilla enamel dots to the centres of the flowers. These were from the Holiday catalogue and I hadn’t used any of the cream dots before. Actually I think I’d only used one dot at all before this card! I attached two of the flowers with glue dots and then popped up the lower one on dimensionals.

I completed the envelope with a liner cut out with the envelope liner framelits and using the subtles family backgrounds DSP. I have the new DSP but apparently I haven’t lined many envelopes with blushing bride.

Take a look over at CAS Colours & Sketches to be inspired by the rest of the design team and the challenge entrants.

Happy Pi Day.

See you tomorrow,

Liz