Thank You!

I think my New Year's Resolution may have gone to my head... two posts in one day, whatever next?

I made this card for my son's mother-in-law, where we spent Christmas Day. Her hospitality was wonderful and her culinary expertise unbounded. We had a marvellous day, sumptuous food and great games... we even had fireworks. It was just amazing. This is just a little something to say a big thank you.

She loves butterflies, hence the embossed border, which I think is from Sizzix. The image is from a Stampin' Up set called Paisley Petals. The sentiment is from Art Impressions embossed with WOW Green Pearl powder and die-cut with  Papermania tag, extending it just a tad to fit around the sentiment..

It's for Casual Friday's CAS Thank you challenge!

About time for a challenge

It seems that I haven't designed a card specifically for some of my favourite challenges for quite some time, so I thought I should remedy that.

Here is a card which fulfils three four challenges.

I took the sketch from Clean and Simple 

 ...the colours from Dynamic Duos,

Simon Says Stamp  Autumn Leaves (2nd entry)

                                      and finally the use of Kraft from Casual Fridays 

The designated colours were applied to the SU French Foliage stamps using SU Marker pens and the squares were all die-cut with Nesties.

If left to my own devices, I probably wouldn't have added the twine, but in adhering to the sketch, I must admit that it does add something to the finished effect.

My thoughts go to the folks living on the east coast of the USA, I do hope you all stay safe through the threatened hurricane. DO take care.