I am always so excited about different parts of the world and within the last 2 years I have met several wonderful card artists from Australia and New Zealand. This card reminded me of their coming Summer when we have Christmas. The background is embossed. The flowers were stamped in a very easy way by using watercolors and the Stamp-A-Ma-Jig without the clear plastic thingy. I call it the lazy stamper's Thing-A-Ma-Jig. There are more details on how to do it on 'the blog':