A special card for a special person...

...this is one for my step-mum. As some of you know, she lives in a really good care home so I wanted a card that was special, quite tactile and with lots of little extra touches. As she's always been an avid one for watching and feeding the birds this image was a good starting point - she lives on the ground floor and her room has a lot of bushes outside the window so she can still enjoy their antics. Ha, and she squirrels bread away at meal times to feed them :)

I made an easel card which will sit nicely in her lovely room on her coffee table, beside her favourite armchair.

Sideways view - and I'll be adding one of the little 'easel card instruction stickers' which I posted about here. If anyone would like a copy of the file just drop me an email to di_wray@hotmail.com.

The sweet little Christmas tree charm got all shy - it's there hiding behind the silver cord. Many thanks to Jules for letting me in on how to add charms nicely to a bow ................ just thread a bodkin with the cord and wiggle it through the knot in the bow, easy, once you've been told the secret!

And the card will prop up behind this little raised band of card and paper, with brads added just in case my step-mum has difficulty standing the card up. I totally love the little robin brad - it's fabric covered and embroidered, just adorable.

I used:

- 6" x 6" white scalloped card stock from Craftwork Cards

- image (already coloured!) and papers from Wild Rose Studio's 'Annabelle's Christmas' paper pack

- ruby red backing card from the snippets folder

- ruby red organza ribbon from the ribbon box

- a little silver Christmas tree charm and silver cord

- snowflake die cut and glittered, with a glittered white brad in the centre - just hold the brad in looooong tweezers, heat with a heat gun and dunk straight into glitter, I use an unlabelled pot bought from Art of Craft

- brads, the ruby red jewel ones are made by 'Lush' and the robin one came from Papermania's  Henbury Lane 'Poinsettia Embroidered brads' pack

- sentiment from Woodware's 'Christmas Ribbon Tree' set, layered onto ruby red card

- stickles on the ground and little falling snowflakes, although they don't show up in the photo very well

- Josy Rose silver round and heart shaped nail heads

I'd like to enter this card into the following fabby challenges:

St. Luke's Hospice - the theme is 'Traditional Christmas'. It's very sad that this is their last challenge, and I'd like to thank Tara and the DT for such a fun and worthwhile challenge - we'll miss you!

Sarn's Rudolph Day Challenge - where you can win a super wax seal set this month, courtesy of Sam - this is my third and final entry for this month. Still time to enter girls :)

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - where the theme is a card for 'someone special'

and last, but not least, Hiding in my Craft Room (HIMCR) - where the theme is 'Christmas'. This challenge is new to me but it looks like good fun!

Still up to my eyes here doing the old school newsletters :(

Di
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