It's always flower time in Florida.

True story: I let my best friend go through my finished card box and take everything she wanted. She took a stack 6 or 7 inches high, and it barely made a dent. But here's where I can get philosophical about the cards I make. Almost every card she left me had critters on them. Except for a very few that had other images involving cartoon people or food. Coffee cups and coffee/tea/cocoa themed cards especially.

That means she took almost every generic flowered card (one sympathy card was left).  So my stash of finished cards is in need of flowery, non-critter type cards appropriate for people who just don't "get" them. You guys know who you are and we love you, anyway. Heck, now I'm pretty sure my friend is one of them!

So, in honor of simple, flowered thank you notes, here are a couple of quick cards I made yesterday using a tried and true and possibly overused layout.  I am particularly fond of peach, so I ran with it.

Please excuse the color cast on the photos, I swear they are on identical paper. The bottom one is closer to reality. The bases are My Favorite Things' Peach Belini cardstock, and the diagonal stripes are from an older MFT stripes and dots paper pack.

I water colored the flowers on Tim Holtz watercolor paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The top card features flowers from Simon Says Stamp's Even More Spring Flowers stamp set, and I colored them with my Clean Color Real Brush markers. The bottom card features a big bloom from MFT's Fancy Flowers set. I painted them with my Mission Gold water colors.

The white tops were cut with MFT edge dies, and finally they both got some orange and clear sequins.

Now I need to come up with some clean and simple cards appropriate to send to guys. Those all got taken too, apparently. (Did I have any to begin with?)