Thursday 3 May 2012

Happy Birthday from Forever Friends.

Hi Guys,

How's it with you all? Still raining here, I think there's a big black cloud over Lincolnshire, wish it would go away. Having my hair done this afternoon though, so will feel cheered up after that. Amazing what a new hair cut can do isn't it. Anyway, enough waffle, decided to put a quick card together and pop it on my blog before going at three. HA!!!  I need to set myself some lines,  
 'I MUST NOT FAFF'.
I did get it finished though, so miracles do happen. Anyway, here it is, see what you think.








If I can't have sun in the garden I'll have it in my craftroom. What say you? It's another rocker, but I used the Spellbinders big scalloped ovals for this one. Loving all my new spellbinder dies, ordered some more yesterday and they just arrived. Amazing. Will have to play later now. The largest layer is linen effect white card, distressed with Tim Holtz spun sugar. I used clipartfairy backing paper, printed on 220gsm supersmooth card for the second layer.








The topper is a digi-stamp from docrafts forever friends black and gold cd and  it's coloured with promarkers. I could never use promarkers with digi-stamps, because no matter how long I left the ink, it still bled. I've sussed it, I give it a good blast with my heat gun, it sets it and then no bleeding. Simples.  It was mounted with foam onto more white linen card and again distressed with spun sugar. I matted and layered onto some textured lemon card from Papermania. Of course all the edges were glittered.








I used my spellbinders daisy topper die and the same backing paper design to make the flower, added a button and bakers twine to the centre. Bit more glitter here. I added spellbinders floral flourishes to frame the flower, cut in both white and lemon. To finish I added a Hunkidory 'Happy Birthday' greeting, in lemon and some pink card candy. Done. So...... do I need to do my lines, or can I be excused.

Hope you like it,


I am entering this card into the following challenges :-

Passion for Promarkers - Bright and light.
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything birthday.
Crafters Companion Challenge Blog - Here comes summer.
Glitter Geeks Blog Challenge - Teddy bears picnic



See you soon, I'm off to the hairdressers.

Jools.  xx


19 comments:

  1. Hi Jools, This is such a pretty & adorable card ! I love the flowers & glitter. Shirley

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  2. Fabulous,fabulous,fabulous ... sooooo pretty.
    Nice to see you in the PanPastel Challenge Jools ... thanks for the support x

    Eileen xx

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  3. Beautiful card, love the colours and the glitter, Mani x

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  4. Lovely pretty and sparkly card. Love the shape and all that glitter is fab.
    Edna x

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  5. Well done Jools you got it finished in time and it's beautiful!! I LOVE the flower and flourishes and your colouring is fab :) No need for lines this time ;) lol Sarah xx

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  6. Such a pretty sparkly card Jools and I love the shape

    Anne

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  7. Thank you for all your lovely comments ladies, it sure is sparkly. Cheers for letting me off my lines Sarah. Nice to see you Mani. Jools. xx

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  8. Very pretty floral card Jools, thank you for joining us at Joanna Sheen 'Flower Power' challenge hugs Teresa xx

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  9. Jools please see the link I have put onto Craft Heaven about the Shabby Blogs backgrounds ... some bloggers are having problems with it ... I have removed mine

    Eileen xxxx

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    1. Thanks so much for the warning Eileen, have deleted. I better go round a few blogs I know who have shabbyblogs too. Feel sorry for shabby, they'll be badly affected.

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  10. Such a pretty card and so summery looking :o) Love the shape of your card and all the sparkle. Thanks for joining us on our Fortnightly and Monthly challenges. Good Luck and hope to see you next time.

    Pop back to the FOREVER FRIENDS blog – we are having a DT call and offering some gorgeous candy
    Click here for details

    Diane xx

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  11. Great card, love how liberally you've glittered! Thanks for joining us at Glitter Geeks this week!

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  12. Beautiful card.
    Thanks for joining us at PfP this week :o)

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  13. Hi Jools
    I've just found your blog and have become a follower. Your cards are fab and I look forward to seeing your future creations.
    Hugs
    Caz x

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  14. Lovely Jools - love the glitter! Thanks for joining us at the Forever Friends Challenge, Lisa (DT) x

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  15. yummy card.. love the colurs... I Faff! and i love it!lol! Love all the glitter too!
    thanks for joining us over at Crafter's Companion challenge this month. Good Luck!

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  16. What a lovely shaped card - perfect for our Spring challenge. Thanks for joining us at Forever Friends, Lisa (DT) x

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  17. Lovely card. I've never used my stamps of Forever Friends as not sure what Promarkers to use. Which colours have you used ?

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    1. Hi, I used mostly the skin tone collection. I do most of my colouring with these. Hope that helps. This is a digistamp by the way. Thank you for coming by my blog and for leaving a comment. I'd love to see you again.

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