Mama Elephant Botanic Envelope and Stems and Sprigs birthday card

Hello friends, well Christmas is already over for another year and I hope it was a happy one for you, even if it was a little different from usual. I'd like to wish you all a very Happy New Year, and I truly hope that 2021 brings us all some peace and joy after the rollercoaster ride that 2020 presented us with!

We have our first challenge of the year over at Simply Create Too

and for this challenge, we are simply asking you to show us your favourite colour combo.

This was an easy choice for me because I really love this Hawaiian Shores shade from Papertrey Ink along with greens and white.

  

I used a couple of NBUS sets from Mama Elephant for this birthday card - Botanic Envelope and Stems and Sprigs, along with some MFT leaf dies.

I created a background paper with Oxide Ink Sprays and die cut all my foliage from it and then stamped, cut and coloured some of the flowers with Copic markers and coloured pencils.

I cut the envelope, stamped the sentiment which came in the set, and then arranged the flowers and sprigs so they peek out from it. The birthday sentiment is an old favourite from Papertrey Ink and I embossed it in white before adding some white Nuvo Drops to finish it off.

I do hope you will skip over to the Simply Create Too blog to see some inspiration from the team, and if you feel like joining in with us this time, you can add your entry over there any time before the 29th January.

I'd like to play along at

Dies R Us Challenge #160 anything goes with dies  

Die Cut Divas January Challenge - frame it

My NBUS Challenge #22

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x