A Floral Card in Pink and Yellow

Happy Saturday! It's time for my weekly Allsorts challenge card share. This week our optional theme is "Matching Pairs" however you may interpret that or you could go with "Anything Goes" as the theme is optional. 

I decided to make a card and matching envelope but I might also create a matching bookmark to go with the card. Who doesn't love a handmade bookmark!!!??? And it would be a nice little gift to include with a handmade card. 

I fell in love with the color combo of pink and yellow from this month's Beautiful Blossoms challenge mood board and so I created this cheerful floral birthday card. Although my pink is a bit too dark. Isn't this a wonderful mood board!! Makes me wish I had a glass of pink lemonade for sure!!

My stamp is Penny Black's Alluring Arrangements. It's a beautiful large stamp and I trimmed part of it off to fit my A2 sized card. I stamped on Neenah 80lb card stock and colored with copic markers. My base pink is Copic color Cotton Candy pink which would have been a better match with the mood board, but I added a little bit (maybe too much!!) of Copic color Shock Pink, blended with cotton candy pink and it turned into this magenta shade. 

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I used my old Stampin Up French Script background stamp on the background with Mustard Seed Distress ink. My intention was to add a strip of patterned paper to the side of the card but couldn't find something simple enough that I liked and that matched so I made my own by using Picked Raspberry Distress ink and a Lavinia stencil. I added May Arts white silk ribbon and tied the sentiment onto it with some twine. The sentiment is part of the Itty Bitty Basics stamp set from My Favorite Things, I cut the words apart and glued onto a mini die cut tag (tag die option).

You can see the decorated envelope above. I used part of the same stamp. Thought I'd add few more blossoms above this and of course the edge of the rubber had ink on it and transferred onto the envelope when I stamped the blossoms. Since I already had the rest of the blossoms and butterfly on the envelope colored, I decided to make another strip of stenciled paper and adhered it onto the envelope. Inside I used some masking tape, then inked up the edge of the insert with the same ink and stencil. (I didn't photograph the inside but there is a tiny peek on the photo above.) To complete the card I added Stickles glitter glue in Stardust for some sparkles.

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I hope you can join us this week. You can see our prize package for the next few challenges below. 

This time our prizes come from Oakwood, Highlight Crafts, AALL and Create and Craft Stash. Oh, and if you played in the last few challenges be sure to check the winners post which was just posted yesterday!!

I'm linking up with these challenges:

• Beautiful Blossoms challenge - AG with Blossoms (opt. mood board above)
• We Love Stamping - Stamping and opt. of stencils
• Penny Black Saturday - Use PB Stamps
• Art Impressions Stamp Challenge - Bloom where you are planted
• Krafty Chicks - All Occasions
• TIME OUT Challenges - Birthdays
• Little Red Wagon - Die Cuts (my tiny tag)
• Simon Says Stamp - AG
• Word Art Wednesdays - AG
• Crazy is our fame - STENCILS are our game! - Stencils (I stenciled the strip of pink paper)
• Everybody-Art-Challenge - Birthdays
• Unicorn Challenge - Birthdays
• AAA Birthday - Use a Stencil