Two Cards & Challenges

I don’t often play along with the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World, but I love the color combination for this week’s challenge and decided to get my mother-in-law’s birthday card done a few days early.

I’ve seen Maile Belles use this design on lots of her cards recently and decided I’d give it a try. I like the overlaid sentiment panel quite a bit and think I’ll use it again.

Papertrey Ink came out with this floral set “Happiness in Bloom” a few months ago, but I held off as I surely have lots of floral stamps. I already owned the dies which were released several years ago, though, so this month I broke down. Their recent floral sets have included a variety of ways to double or triple stamp the flowers which makes them much more interesting. Everything on this card came from that stamp set.

When I first saw the challenge at Case Study, I didn’t have anything in mind, but then the CASual Friday challenge to use an arrow on the card came along, and I had an idea to combine the two challenges. I’m really happy with the way it turned out.

I don’t usually do too well stamping a pattern, but the triangles from the Mama Elephant “Trifecta” set were easy to work with. The sentiment with the arrow came from Papertrey’s “Live, Love, Life.”

ETA: I’m linking this to the Moxie Fab “Trendy Triangles Challenge.”

Both of these cards meet the challenge at Simon Says for “Anything Goes.”