AAA Colourful challenge - guest designer card

Hello again friends; I hope your weekend is going great so far.  I was lucky enough to win a challenge over at AAA Colourful challenge and was offered the chance to be a guest designer, which I accepted straight away.  

Today is the day I get to share my card as it's the start of challenge #34 and they have an awesome colour board to inspire you.  The colours provided need to be the prominent ones you use but you can also include neutrals in your design.  You can make any type of papercraft project and it can be for any occasion.

Isn't it a pretty board; it could of course be for Christmas as there is lots of green on the board but there is also purple, blues and yellows, so it could be for any occasion.  If you see other colours then go ahead and use them.  I decided to make a birthday card and the colourboard made me immediately think of a bokeh style background.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using a 2 layer stencil used 2 green, purple, cranberry and blue inks to blend all over the background (I did move the stencil around to get more overlap and to spread the design down a little more than intended).  I used a third green ink to blend all over the panel for a more saturated look.  I cut the panel down using a stitched rectangle die and also cut a mat layer from gold card.  I decided to do an eclipse style sentiment but instead of cutting the individual letters from the background and layering them up, I cut the shadow from the background, layered it up 5 times and then die cut the letters from gold and added them on top using liquid glue.  Technically it's not really a proper eclipse card but I still like the effect.  I stamped two sub-sentiments using versamark ink and embossed them with gold powder.  I finished off with some gold glitter dots (which were left over from a previous project). I added the panels together using liquid glue and then adhered them to my card base using double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and ink blended the design along the bottom to match the front.  I die cut the panel using the stitched rectangle and again cut a gold mat layer.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment and adhered the panels together using liquid glue.  The panel was then added to my card base using double sided tape. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

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I hope the colour board inspires you and you will join in the fun.  Please pop over to the blog to see the amazing creations by the Design Team.  I look forward to seeing all your wonderful creations in the linky.  

Enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

MFT - card sized confetti set stencil set

Spellbinders - hello smile die set 

Spellbinders - colorful expressions blossom stamp (for sub-sentiments)

Spellbinders - envelope of wonder stamp (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - master layouts 02 die set (for stitched and plain rectangle dies)

Gina K Designs - lots of dots die set (to cut the glitter circles)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - key lime, lucky clover, fresh asparagus, blue raspberry, wild lilac, medium cranberry

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card (for card base)

Versamark - embossing and watermark ink pad

Comic Shimmer - bright gold detail embossing powder

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Thank you x