Octopus Celebrate Card

The Jitterbuggin' Challenge Blog is challenging us this week to let the sunshine in.  We are supposed to use the provided sketch, the color yellow, and stripes on our card.  Here's what I came up with:

I designed this card on my Gypsy.  This card is 5.75" square.  The blue square is 5.5", and the smaller squares are 2.5" each. The octopus cut came from Birthday Bash.  Isn't he cute?  I got the circles from the BB cart, too, and the sentiment is from Hero Arts.  All of the patterned paper is from DCWV's Citrus Stack...they were all scraps I had leftover from other projects.  I love this little card, and I really enjoyed following a sketch (I've never done that for a card before).  I think I may try that more often.  Thank you so much for stopping by!  Have an awesome Tuesday!  :o)