A SC Birthday card... and some New Year crafting thoughts!

Hi!

9 days until Christmas!!!!  and I failed to meet my deadline of having the presents wrapped by the weekend....My only chance to do it is when Alaia is in Nursery, that gives me a total of 2 hours a day... and last week I decided to do something else instead... so presents are not wrapped yet. Oh well, they are not going to be out until Christmas Eve!!!!

With the end of the year approaching, I'm starting to think about things I would like to achieve or just try on during the coming year.... I would like to improve my colouring, try new techniques and things out of my comfort zone... I will try altering canvas or objects, and other crafty stuff... One thing I've already started is making my own clay embellishments!!! yay! I've seen a lot of fellow card-makers using clay embellishment on their cards, I love them!!!!... so I took a look... oh dear, quite a bit more pricey than I would like! so with the thought that I would use it quite a lot, I bought some air-drying clay and a mould and made my first clay embellishment! (the white and brown corner on the image). It's not perfect, but for a first I guess is ok???!!!

On to the card......

Today I have a Birthday card for you....  I've used a Saturated Canary image called Pricilla Pie. Isn't she great? This card is for someone quite close to me... I will add her name soon, I just didn't want to put it in the card for the blog as I haven't sent it yet!

For this card I used sketch #248 from Sketch Saturday, I hope you like my interpretation of it!

I left the sketch as it is, I just replaced the big corner at the top of image with my handmade clay corner and I used a fabric piece for the horizontal layer under the image, instead of paper. 

I also added some flowers, ribbon and butterfly.

The paper I've used are from my K&Company paper pad and from the Papermania Capsule collection Spots and Stripes Pastels.
I really love this colour combination, Pale pink and brown, it give it a vintage feeling I like....



I coloured the beautiful Pricilla Pie with my Promarkers.
For her hair I used: buttermilk, Sandstone and Raw Sienna.
For her face and skin: coral, vanilla, almond, ivory, blossom for the cheeks. Powder blue for the eyes.
For the jewellery: mustard.
For her clothes: Pale pink, blossom, pink carnation, sandstone, buttermilk and the blender pen.


I stamped the sides of the image with a flower and birds stamp strip, don't know where it came from as I've had it forever.

I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink pad in Tea Dye for this stamp and to distress the whole card.





the big brown piece of fabric is new... I bought a whole reel of it in Hobbycraft last week. I think it is some kind of Christmas decoration, but when I saw it I though it would be great for cards.

The pink and yellow ribbon is from Dovecraft.
The pearls are from Wild Orchid Crafts.
The butterfly is punched with Martha Steward butterfly punch.
The stars masking tape, buttons and flowers are from local shops.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday #289 - Any sketch after #215
Cutie Pie challenge #59 - Cute card for a special friend
Love to Create #96 - Anything goes
Creative Corner Challenges - Color it: favorite color combination
Crafty Ribbons #73 - Anything goes with Ribbons
Crafty Girls #8 - Anything goes
Pumpkin Spice #50 - Ribbon or Bows
Loves Rubberstamps -  Anything goes
Crafty Sentiments blog - Birthdays (3)
Penny's challenge #157 - Feminine with a sentiment (2nd entry)
Crafty Catz #211 - Anything goes (2nd entry)
QKR Stampede #68 -  3 favorite embellishements (ribbon, pearls and flowers)
Divas by design - Anything goes (2nd entry)



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Until next time!