A summery thank-you

 Today's inspiration came from a list of ingredients, a photo, a layout and a recipe. In my mind they would play well with each other.

The ingredients were simple: a die, a sentiment stamp, pink and yellow gelli printed papers and vellum.

 

The making was anything but. I haven't used these floral circles a lot and now I remember why: they are overly fiddly to release and then glue on. For the layout background vellum seemed like an obvious choice as I wanted to keep this clean. The sentiment was stamped and embossed on vellum. Then I surrounded the sentiment with small diamonds for glitter. The sentiment reads "Thank you".

I am entering this in the following challenges that were my inspiration today:

Festive Friday: #FF0213 World emoji day - I used yellow, glossy embellishment and circles from the list

TGIF: #585 Sketch challenge

 

Inkspirational: #371 Photo inspiration

 

CAS on Friday: #338 Use dies and only word stamps 

 

The big seven oh

 A dear friend of mine is turning 70. She was never one to celebrate her birthdays, but this time she will. Knowing her reluctance I made a card that look lighthearted enough. Instead of using the big scary number I am only saying Congrats (and will write something personal inside).

I like to use my gelli plate prints whenever I can. I cut the squares, then stamped the images onto scraps, fussy cut them and adhered onto the squares.

I placed the letters a bit crooked and also used one negative instead of a full letter. I feel it adds to the feel of lightheartedness. 

Entering in:

Simon Says Monday Challenge: Feminine

Sweet Stampers Challenge: #66 CAS 

CAS on Sunday: #227 Flowers 

Simon Says Wednesaday: Use your favorite things - mine would be gelli plate printed papers! 

Seize the Birthday: #234 Use Green or Anything goes - I went with the latter option