'Thanks' to my Silhouette...

The Perfect Sentiments challenge this week is to create a card with 'Thank You' as the sentiment.  The twist?..distress some edges.  Well, I had to do some research to find out about distressing.  I had heard of it,  used it at times, but didn't know know exactly what I was doing.  After researching I decided to  distress the edges of some of my components with my scissors.  In the video I watched the card stock showed a nice light colored center after distressing.  My card stock is evidently colored all the way through, so all I ended up with were roughed up edges.

I cut the sentiment out with my silhouette and attached it with ribbon and dimensional adhesives, added some pale lavender and yellow flowers, some scalloped trim with pearls and a bow.  I used brads as my flower centers and also to hold my double bow together.  The blue panel is embossed with dots and the base of the card is craft card stock.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges.

Simon Says bingo challenge (brads, tags, ribbon/twine)
Creative Inspirations anything goes challenge #155
Perfect Sentiments PSC#24 distressed thank you
Cute Card Thursday challenge 209 anything goes

Easter Color Story

Perfect Sentiments is hosting  an Easter color story challenge this week and I love the colors!

Here is their color palette.

And here is my design.

I chose purple card stock for the base and lined the inside with light pink paper.  Then I punched the edge of the card with my Martha Stewart lace border punch to let the pink paper just barely show through.  I used the same punch on a piece of blue card stock which I added to the lower left corner of the card.  A white doily cut with my Silhouette is tucked under the blue at the upper third of the card and a small cluster of purple fabric flowers with green pearl centers was affixed to the center of the doily.  I added a strip of light purple ribbon and a matching bow and a butterfly punched using my Martha Stewart monarch butterfly punch.  I don't have any Easter sentiments yet, but I did find this 'Warm Wishes' stamp in my stash and decided that would work for any occasion.  I'm not totally satisfied with the sentiment, but I am quite pleased with the rest of the card.

I am entering this card into the Perfect Sentiments Easter color story challenge #23.