Special Card...

.... for a special person in our family. My husband's grandmother is going to be 89 soon, so I have brought her card and presents with us this weekend, as we will not be able to be with her on her special day.

I have used the inspiration colours from this week's Play Date Cafe, and the sketch from Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge.

For my purposes, I have flipped the sketch.

I have used an image from Hero Arts, a beautiful bloom that I have stamped in Tuxedo Black, and coloured with Promarkers and my lovely Staedtler Soft Colour Pencils. I think I love them more than my Promarkers! And, they can be used to great effect in conjunction with Promarkers too.

I have used a kraft card base and panel, and distressed the edges with Old Olive Distress Ink, then added a strip of patterned paper from Wild Rose Studios and stitched to the panel.

Then cut a kraft disc using my Nestabilities, distressed the edge with Old Olive and Frayed Burlap, and attached the flower with a couple of stamped and coloured leaves.

The sentiment is from Waltzingmouse Stamps Say it Loud set, stamped in Walnut Stain.

And I was going to leave it at that, as I am trying to flex this CAS muscle that is a bit flabby and weak - but, surprisingly, my husband said " What are you putting in the top left corner, it looks a bit bare?"!! Huh?!

Ok, I took his advice, and popped some green twill and tied a little bow in green twine, and it works! And as I was footering about, I thought I'd add some green dew drop gems for good measure!

I'm really hoping this measures up for a Clean and Simple design, as I was trying to keep it clean for CAS-ual Fridays, which this week would like to see added colour to your image. Well, there's certainly added colour to this - it may be a single flower, but I can't tell you the hours I spent colouring this in! And then when I realised the pencils worked on top of the Promarkers, well, there was another hour gone!

I am entering this into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - Birthday

The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop - Anything Goes

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge

The Play Date Cafe

CAS-ual Fridays - Add Colour

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Say it Loud - Waltzingmouse Stamps; Blossom Art - Hero Arts; Layered Flowers - Hero Arts.

Inks: Old Olive, Walnut Stain, Frayed Burlap Distress Inks; Memento Tuxedo Black;

Paper: Kraft Card - Woodware; Neenah Solar White - Crafter's Companion; Milton Papers - Wild Rose Studio

Other: Olive Twill - The Ribbon Reel; Olive Button Twine - The Ribbon Reel; Brown Thread, Sewing Machine; Green Dewdrops - Kars; Spellbinders Nestabilities S4-116 Circles Small.

Promarkers: Amethyst, Aubergine, Lavender, Lilac, Plum, Orchid, Lemon, Gold, Mustard, Sunflower, Cinnamon, Cocoa, Raw Sienna, Umber, Leaf Green, Holly, Lime Green, Marsh Green.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline