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Tuesday 22 January 2013

A Special Lady

A midweek hello to all my crafty friends,

Just popped on to show you a birthday card that I made for a very special lady  - I'm sure she won't mind me showing you all.  My biggest decision was whether to make it using her own products, or something completely different! Well, I took the 'completely different' option and used one of my own favourites instead.  Here's what I made ...


I began with my usual 8x8" scalloped card blank in cream and covered it with a selection of gorgeous papers from Pion Designs, which have all been inked with Victorian Velvet distress ink.  The main image is one of my favourite Magnolia stamps - 'Tilda and her Bunny' from the Butterfly Dreams collection and is partly coloured with my Promarkers (the hat and top are paper-pieced with scraps from the backing papers to match).  I also added a piece of ivory lace which I threaded with some pink organza ribbon and made a double bow using ivory seam binding and some more ogranza ribbon (can you spot the little silver metal heart charm?)  I used a LOTV sentiment and embellished the card with pretty flowers, some die-cut leaves, a lace doily, a little stamped postcard, a couple of hearts, a TH 'Wish' ticket and some flat back pearl accents.

I love the shabby chic look that the card has - hope my friend enjoyed it as much as I loved making it.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Inky Chicks - Bingo (Flowers, Lace and Pearls)
Magnolia Down Under - Recipe (Pink, Lace and Metal)
Midweek Magnolias - In the Pink with Ribbons and Pearls
Sugar Creek Hollow - Tic Tac Toe (Lace, Ribbon and Pearls)

Bye for now,
Hugz, Jan xx

18 comments:

  1. This is gorgeous! I love the colours! Thanks for visiting my blog...it was a treat to find your blog!
    Hugs,
    Chris

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  2. Lovely card, Jan. Perfect for the pink ribbon and pearls challenge. Thank you for sharing it with us at Midweek Magnolias.
    Hugz,
    Cathy Lee

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  3. A lovely card with lots of gorgeous layers x

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  4. Beautiful card and image - so much detail - love it!!
    xx

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  5. Beautiful card...love the image.xxx

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  6. This is so pretty, i love all the layers x

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  7. Another lovely card with loads of detail :)

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  8. Aw this is just beautiful and I am sure your friend loved it. Gorgeous colours and loving the flowers.

    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  9. WOW, just so pretty. Gorgeous image and I love all the layers. Stunning!! x

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  10. So pretty, love that image and all the wonderful details. Helen xx

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  11. This is a beautiful shabby card, Jan! Love your layout, distressing, image and the way you layered the doily and die cuts. Thanks so much for joining the Sugar Creek Hollow Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge this week.
    Amelia (DT Sugar Creek Hollow)

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  12. This is gorgeous Jan... I love the colours,layers and the embellishments you've used and the Magnolia image is so cute too hun.
    Hugz, Lorraine xx

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  13. Wow its gorgeous love all the layers and colours. Chris xx

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  14. So gorgeous and perfect for our challenge xx
    Thankyou so much for playing along with us this week at MDUC
    Hugs
    Debbie xx

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