A card for my Aunt

Everyone goes through change phases in life and my family is in the middle of one of those change phases right now. 
For the last 11 years my Mom and her sister have lived together in a town about 2 hours from me and it's worked great. It's been especially nice for my Mom the past 4 years because her granddaughter has been at college in the same town. But Alana is graduating and Mom has spent a lot of time here with eye doctor visits the past year so we all agreed that it's time for her to move to Richmond. That means it's time for my Aunt to move near her daughter in Florida. 
My Mom, who always views every change as an adventure is excited about her move. My Aunt, not so much! I thought it might help a little to have a greeting waiting for her when she arrives at her new home so I got busy Friday night to make a card that should be there when she gets "home" today.

I wasn't going to spent hours this so I set some parameters to fabrics from my bin of pre-fused fabrics and I wasn't going to do any stenciling or anything else that would have a lot of prep or cleanup time.
You know that I like to give myself boxes to work in!
Anyway, first I needed a theme and went to Google for a list of state "things" of Florida and settled on the flower: an orange blossom.
Thank you Google Images for this feast of reference photos.

I'm lick that I have a BIG bin of pre-fused fabric. So I cut some leaves, orange circles and white petals and started playing around with arrangements.

I went with the light blue background because I had a card already fused with it! Then I decided on one orange and one blossom.

I start from the back to add the elements so the leave were fused and stitched first.

Next was the orange.

Then the blossom.

Then I fused on the back and stitched the edges. But it still needed a little something.

A little puff paint was just the right finish! Hopefully it will make it to Florida on time and in good shape. 
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I rarely make a single card but this time it was just right.