Your color blending plus the colors you have chosen to blend so beautifully having that area of light in the center just makes me smile, WOW!!! Adding the perfect stitched in circles stitching concentric rings in that gorgeous deep grey just makes this gorgeous color absolutely pop, and yet it's also an amazing frame. Having that simple sentiment in the same grey on the ink (SO brave, I'd somehow mess it up, but you did it beautifully!!!) was the PERFECT sentiment.
I have realized how much I LOVE CAS when I see a card like this, and how much I want to create CAS cards. They require from my perspective amazing technical execution because you lay out what you do in such a straight forward manner, and your cards do this SO WELL!!! I hope to someday be able to create some cards even CLOSE to as fantastic as yours are!!!