The Card Concept: Freshly Elegant

Today is Sarah and Adam’s 11th anniversary—how is that possible!!! Nonetheless it is, and I have a card for them inspired by The Card Concept: Freshly Elegant challenge. Here’s the inspiration photo:

I was inspired by the colors that are throughout the photos–pinks–light and dark–yellow and golden colors. The card itself is based on one I pinned awhile ago. I liked it so much I bought the die. 

I watercolored a background and then added some splatters with Studio Calico’s “Piglet” spray. Neither are fortes of mine, but this time I was satisfied with the result. The gorgeous “Stacked Hearts” die is from Simon Says and I die cut it three times and layered them. The sentiment from an old Papertrey Ink set “Mat Stack 3” was white embossed on a scrap of black cardstock that was then cut with a banner die from My Favorite Things.

The watercolored panel was cut down just a bit and layered onto a Memory Box card. One of the interesting feature of The Card Concept challenge is to identify your card by its style. I think 90% of my cards fall under the Clean and Simple category, but in this case I think “Clean and Graphic” might be the better choice. You can find the explanations for the different styles right here. How would you classify this one?