Friday 26 April 2013

Birthday Bling

Hello again, I'm back as promised with the details of the new challenge over at Polka Doodles today which was chosen by doodler, Alethea, as today is her birthday.
Happy Birthday Alethea - hope it's a good one!

Alethea would like to see birthday projects with some added bling which in my case is quite subtle as it comes from some glitter card.

 
My image is the lovely Libby the gypsy girl from the new mini CD, Fredericka, recently launched by Nikky and she's my favourite on the CD. I think she looks so sweet with her basket of mushrooms although I hope she's not going to eat them as some of them appear to be toadstools!
I printed her out on to thick smooth cartridge paper and then coloured her with my new obsession, Distress Stains as they're so wonderfully easy to paint with and you can mix the colours to make even more shades. I usually dab them on to a ceramic plate and pick the colour up with a paintbrush. I die cut the image with a Papermania frilly die and added it to a mat of pink glitter card die cut with the next size up die in the set.
I covered the 8x8 card blank with some pretty ditsy patterned blue paper from the same CD and added a central border of mushroom paper, trimmed along the scalloped edge in the pattern and added to a glitter card mat. Before sticking the border in place, I tied some pink chiffon ribbon round and finished with a bow.
I added a cream doily, matted the sentiment from the CD on more glitter card and finished off my design with a lacy design metal butterfly (these were a bargain from The Range - only £1 for 4!).

I hope you have a lovely day and a great weekend.
Hugs,
Fliss xx

Some challenges for my card:
Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes With Ribbon
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Sisterhood Of Crafters - Free For All

16 comments:

Valerie-Jael said...

Oh my, you are on a roll today! Lovely card. Dark clouds zooming up here too! Why don't you keep your bad weather instead of sending it over here!?

Darlene said...

Beautiful creation which I'm sure brought a smile! Thanks so much for joining us at The Sisterhood ‘Free For All (anything goes)’ challenge and please come back again soon!
Darlene
one of the 'Sistahs'
The Sisterhood of Crafters
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS

Jamie Martin said...

Such a wonderful sweet card :)

Terry said...

Fliss, you do some amazing coloring! What an adorable little girl! Sweet card! Have a wonderful weekend! Hugs!

Paper Profusion said...

Hi Fliss, she is soo pretty - love how you have coloured her. Have a lovely weekend. Nicola x

Silvia(Barnie) said...

A lovely card, perfect for a girl.

Rose said...

Hi Fliss, gorgeous card, I love your colouring on the image and doily and glitter card :-)

Rose x

Gretha said...

Such a very lovely card
Thanks for joining the Crafty Ribbons Challenge
x Gretha

junemac2 said...

Such a bright fun creation Fliss. beautiful my friend
hugs June x

Claire said...

beautiful card Fliss, love the effect of colouring with the distress stains. That image is really sweet, I do love Nikky's cds, this one is on my wishlist
Claire xx

Shirley said...

Such an absolutely sweetie pie of a card Fliss, love it.

Hugs Shirley x x

Julia said...

Such a beautiful creation with great attention to detail. Thanks for joining us at Crafting By Designs. Good luck.
Hugs
Julia

Melissa Bove said...

Adorable card! Such a sweet image!

Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog!

Hugs...
Melissa

Patricia Chalas said...

Fliss adorable card!!
Love the combinations and the border used!

Words and Pictures said...

Oh so pretty in pink... what a delightful card!
Alison x

Lorraine A said...

Gorgeous card Fliss :-) the image is adorable and I love the paper and details :-)

thanks for joining us on the Crafty Ribbons Challenge
luv
Lols x x x