Birthday Girl

Today is my little friend's Birthday - not so little any longer as Abi has grown into a tall, beautiful and elegant young woman. Where did the years go, I remember her as a small child! Last week was her school Prom, she starts college in September, and she wore a beautiful pistachio green dress with some sparkly detail. Her long blonde hair is now a pretty urchin cut which suits her so well. And that's where I began with this card for her - I love Saturated Canary images but the long flowing hair on lots of them terrifies me when colouring. Then I remembered 'Blanche' with her hair in a similar style to Abi so I ran over to Saturated Canary and downloaded her:

I used:

- 8" x 8" square white scalloped card (Craftwork Cards)

- pink backing card with corners rounded

- green backing card, cut in half and then run through the Cuttlebug using the embossing folder called 'Lattice' by Crafts-Too. There are three of these on offer over in the Snippets Playground :) The join was hidden with moss green satin ribbon.

- 'Blanche' image by Saturated Canary, coloured with Pro Markers, die cut using a Spellbinders 'Floral Oval' and then 'glitzed up' with 'Lime Ice' Stickles

- I made the roses (took forever!) using Spellbinders 'Rose Creations' dies, two shades of pink card with the edges tickled with pink ink pads, pearls popped into the centres and Glossy Accents as dewdrops. The leaves were die cut from a snippet of green card using the same die set and then veins were hand embossed

- sentiment is from SU's 'Perfect Punches' sentiments set, stamped using VersaMagic 'Pink Petunia' chalk ink, punched using SU's 'Extra Large Oval' and popped onto another oval which was die cut using another die from Spellbinders 'Floral Ovals' set 

- next came the bow, for that I used moss green silk ribbon

- and the finishing touch, wait for it, 79 little white pearls on the embossed background, I know that 'cos there are 21 left in the packet of 100 I started out with :)

- of course there had to be a box made too

- then................................ I went to lie down in a darkened room

Happy Birthday Abi - hope you have a wonderful day young lady!

Edit: After a little kick in the rear end,  I'm entering this into the following challenges:

That Craft Place - flowers

Creative Moments - flowers

Dream Valley - make your own flowers or embellishments

A Little Bit Crafty - use dies

Created With Love - For the Girls

Fashionista - Wedding or Birthday

Sigh, I couldn't find a challenge for using the biggest number of pearls :(

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