Happy Birthday Holly

Morning!! Firstly I need to apologise for the rubbish photos! I have somehow mislaid the charger to the camera since our holiday... so my mission today is to find it! So I had to take the photos on my phone and at night too... yuck this weather is horrible... its like winter!  Anyway.... Amelia announced at 7pm last night that it was her friends birthday and she wanted to give her a card today... so went went through my little box... and she didn't want one of them, she wanted one with a ballerina one!

and so yes mummy spent some pennies and brought a new stamp just for Amelia's friend... Well she has quite a few friends at ballet that have parties soon so I'm sure it will be coming in very handy! This is 'The Lovely Ballerina' from The Paper Shelter.  I have a small collection of digs from there, I love them as they come with pre coloured ones too and sometimes thats what you need.  I did consider using one last night... But I didn't i coloured her up myself! 

She was coloured using Copics; 

Skin - E000, E00, E02, R20 cheeks, R81 lips

Dress, Skirt, Tights and Shoes - R81, R83, R85

Hair - E18, E15, E13

I used lots of paper from my stash, none of them had names on them so I have idea where /what they are! I also pulled out a charm and added a bit of twine to it, and to finish off a rhinestone flourish made using my Bazzill Jewel Template.  

All in all I'm pretty happy with how she turned out! I would like to enter this card into the following challenges; 

Karens Doodles - For The Kids

Creative Mondays - Anything Goes

365 Cards - Layers 

The Paper Shelter - Photo Inspiration 

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you soon! 

x

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Ribbons and Pearls

Afternoon everyone, been a busy morning but still have so much to do, why can you empty the washing basket and then turn around and its full again!?!? Never Mind!!

So this week over at Papertake Weekly the theme is Ribbons and Pearls! Our sponsor is The Paper shelter , I was over on their site this morning, going back later on, their images are adorable, i'm head over heals for 'Sophie in the country'. If you have a moment, why not take a look??

When I have made cards in the past I have always done one or the other on a card (Ribbon or Pearls), so it was a bit out (hands stretched wide apart) of my comfort zone to put both! But after a long time sat thinking (while scratching head for inspiration) I came up with this;

You can just see where i have stamped flourishes in versamark for the background, I decided to go over just one to add more effect, The Image was a free one from CDAC before christmas, I cut the circles with my nesties, the blue one in on miri card, The pearls were put on by hand (when went to my little pearl and sparkle box had no adhesive pearls so had to stick each pearl by hand, and im not one for the time it took, I get too fluttery!) The ribbon I stuck on with double sided tape (and got it strait for a change!) and placed the pearls on the bottom for added detail.

I have entered this card to;

Critter Challenge Blog - Blue, Silver and Pearls

Karber Weekly Challenge - Ribbon

Paper Playtime - Use the word Love

The secret crafter - With love

Die Cut Dreams - Use a Digi and Rubber Stamp (the back is stamped with a flourish stamp and versamark)

Thanks for popping by, If you have time let me know what you think!

xx