Joanna Sheen and Papertrey Ink birthday card

 Hello everyone and welcome to Challenge #106 over at Simply Create Too

where we are being asked to use purple and green. Well that certainly reminds me of the echinacea or coneflower that blooms in our garden later in the year, so I came up with this card using an NBUS die from Joanna Sheen simply called 'ecinacea'. 

I die cut the flower in white and painted it using re-inkers, and when it had dried, I added a few strokes with watercolour pencils to add some detail. The greeting comes from Papertrey Ink Birthday Bash sentiments, and I stamped this in two colours on some white card before using their canvas impression plate to add some texture. I had some opaque purple vellum in my stash and I embossed it with a We R Memory Keepers embossing folder that sadly has no name on it

I assembled the card and raised the flower heads on some foam tape, added a gem dot for the i and a little heart finished it off. Although the flowers are raised slightly, this is actually a very flat card that will go through the post easily and at the cheaper rate which helps with saving the pennies!

Why not head over to the Simply Create Too blog and check out the inspiration there. We'd love you to join in with us this time.

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Cards in Envy -use purple

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x