Friday 8 July 2011

18th Birthday in Pink, Black and Bling!

I was asked by a family friend to make a card for her to give to her Daughter, this is what I came up with...

I started by colouring the Gorjuss stamped image with Promarkers (Pastel Pink, Antique Pink, Black, Cool Greys 1, 3 & 5 & the Blender Pen) I used some papers from DCWV Black & White Prints and Dovecraft's Charcoal Prints for the backing along with some printable papers which I punched circles from. The verse was cut using a Nesties Label die and I used Nellie Snellen dies to punch the frames from thick silver miri card, I think the silver really sets it off. It's really hard to show in the piccies but I coloured the "18", the word "Daughter" and the flower in her hair using a quickie glue pen and added some glamour dust, it looks really pretty and sparkly, just to give it some extra sparkle. I added lots of little diamantes to bling it up as I'm sure every 18 year old girl likes bling (well I hope so, it's a while since I was 18!)



I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Allsorts - "Free and Easy"
The Crafty Pad - "Particular Style of Card"
Catch The Bug - "July Anything Goes"
Dream Valley - "Ribbons"
Sentimental Sundays - "Anything Goes"
Craft Your Passion - "Anything Goes"
Kaboodle Doodles - "Celebrations"
Pollycraft - "Celebrations"
Penny's - "Happy Birthday"
Emerald Faerie Garden - "Sugar & Spice, All Things Girly"

8 comments:

Julye said...

What a fab keepsake I'm sure one that will betreasured. Thanks for sharing with us all here at Penny's.

allex said...

A "gorjuss" card April. I'm sure any 18 year old would adore this on her birthday !!

Hugs, sandra xx

Dawn said...

Such a pretty little easel card!Love the colour combo!
Thank you for playing along at The Crafty Pad this week!
Good Luck
Hugs
Dawn & Ali! xx

Debs said...

Simply stunning!! Such a striking colour combo.
Thanks for playing Free & Easy with us at Allsorts this week.
Good luck.
Debs xx

~♥~The Navy Wife~♥~ said...

Wow! that DP is really effective! This card says bang to me and is just gorgeous! Thank you for playing along with us this week at The Crafty Pad.

Paul said...

Thank you April for joining in with us at Catch The Bug for our Anything Goes challenge.
TFS
Paul
http://www.craftyblogocks.blogspot.com/

Anne said...

Hi there your card is gorgeous. Anne x

Unknown said...

Absolutely Stunning Card.