Dance like no one's watching

My teenage friend Abi had a birthday yesterday. She's a super ice skater, and is passionate about it too, so the image for this card was a 'no brainer' really:

We have some real colour issues with the photo though, the purples are really rich (almost Royal Purple) in real life. Mind you, it was such a dull day yesterday (raining cats and dogs too) I guess it's not surprising :( 

Hope you had a brilliant day Abi!

I used:

- A5 white card stock

- image downloaded for free from the internet, it's a Bratz image and I found it at Colouring Planet, then coloured with Pro Markers and a silver pen. Abi has a great piccie of her skating on her Facebook profile so I printed that off and tried to copy her purple costume colours, the sparkly bits and long blonde hair as best I could :)

- backing card came from the snippets folder and the backing paper is from a Papermania 8" x 8" 'Rich Purple' pack

- ribbon from the ribbon box

- sentiment by Stamping Bella, ink pad used is SU's 'Perfect Plum' and also I used SU's oval punches (love these!)

- flowers were die cut using Joy! dies and snippets, the white layers were coloured with a water based pen giving a little stripe before being removed from the dies (a tip from Jules I think) and then card candi was added for the centres

This month's challenge over at St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge is 'Teenage Kicks' so I'm entering this card as it sums up so well at least one teenager I know :)

I had almost the whole day yesterday without IT access - ironed like crazy, even next door's cat is standing to attention without a single crease in its fur :)

A Tuesday Tale will follow - once I have my 'thinking head' on.

Di

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