July OCS- Better Late Than Never!

Wowee- July sure flew by so quickly! I barely had enough time to finish up my OCS- in fact I had to ask for more time! Sorry Grace!

This month Linda challenged us to use words as the focal point of the card. I found this to be extremely challenging. I normally add in a stamped image or die cut as my focal point, but I had to keep reminding myself not to do that. I settled on flowers as accents so that it would not overwhelm the words.

This sentiment is so cute! Its from the new Greeting Farm Sunshine set. Since the set is made for scrapbooking, the words are rather large and didn't fit nicely on a regular A2 sized card, so I had to super-size it.

Found this cute paper to use as the background- the cool thing is that I flipped it over for the inside of the card! Accented the bottom of the cover using my MS daisy border punch.

Here's the inside of the card. Loved the fact that I could use both sides of that DP- and it was perfect since the writing matched the sentiment on the front of the card!! Couldn't resist adding these cute flowers from the Sunshine kit since they are smiling.

Here's the card I received from Grace. Isn't it awesome? I love how she cut the corners of the blocks to form the hole for the Many Thanks sentiment. I'll need to remember this layout for future use. Thanks Grace!

Here' s a close up of the focal point...