The last one.....

 

 

Jen is recovering from her sickness but now I'm feeling distinctly icky.  Hope I'm not coming down with it next!!

I promise this is the last of Jen's birthday cards!  I'm going to have to make something else this week lol.

This card actually started life quite differently.  In the summer I made a batch of cards for my granddaughter.  This one didn't get used so I recycled it.

I started by removing the sentiment which was on foam pads.  This left a mark which had to be covered and so dictated where the flowers were placed.  These are big blooms from Docrafts Vintage Notes collection layered with smaller paper and ribbon flowers.

We have quite a bit of lace in our stash so I found some that matched quite nicely and used it to frame the card.

I finished it off with a tag sentiment hung from one of the pearls. 

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

 

Little Dancer

Morning all.  Did you know that the second of July is the middle day of the year? There are 182 days before it and 182 after.  Well I thought it was interesting lol ;)

 

I'm on leave this week and the weather is due to be good here in Sheffield, so keep your fingers crossed :)  I might even get some extra crafting in!

A few days ago I mentioned that I had finally bought the Crafters Companion Spring magazine.  Inside were several freebies; one of which was a ballerina stamp called Little Dancer.  I really liked this sweet little image so I've stamped and coloured her to make todays card.

The image was stamped on to the reverse side of a piece of centura pearl.  I like this as a stamping surface - it really seems to take the image and colouring well.  The pens I used were a selection of flex markers.

The frame is a die borrowed from Jen's stash, so I don't know what it's called, but it fit my little ballerina so well.  I layered her on some pink dotty paper from the stash and added a butterfly border made with a Tonic punch.

The topper was added to a grey matt before being used on a 6x6 card blank.  I like grey and pink combinations.

A ready made sentiment and three flat backed pearls finish her off.  Hope you like her.

TTFN Jude xx