Katie Bug on a Swing

I was very fortunate to have won a challenge recently at Squigglefly and was able to choose a digi from my store as the prize. Now I have to be honest, I hadn't realised quite how many stamps there were in the store and such a proliferation of artists with many different styles. I kept picking a image but then would find another I liked better and on it went until I came to this gorgeous cutie by artist Jackie Mathews and I knew this was the one for me, it just made my heart swell with happiness and that was it, I didn't choose it, it chose me :)

I have had it coloured for a couple of weeks and just needed to make it up into a card. I chose happy bright colours as befitting the image and had created a second layer on the ladybird and the main orange flower. The challenge over at Squigglefly this week is to incorporate some buttons so of course they were the perfect centre to my flowers. I used sketch #79 from Tuesday Trio which was asking for bright happy colours so all the planets were aligning to make this card :)

The papers are from a Citrus Mat Stack by DCWV. The main flower paper is really glittery which I have tried to show in the picture. The flower ribbon is a self adhesive one from DCWV too. The sentiment is a fabulous freebie from Paulette at TLC Creations, matted onto a scrap of black card and white faux stitching applied courtesy of my gel pen.

This is such a happy jolly card and with the fab sentiment is good for a general card which has just gotta bring a smile to someone's face like it did mine. Thanks Squigglefly for such a lovely image as my fab prize :)

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size - 6" square

Image - Katie Bug on a Swing by Jackie Mathews at Squigglefly

Paper - DCWV

Sentiment - TLC Creations

Sketch - Tuesday Trio #79

Tools - Scissors, Nestabilities die, Quickutz Cookie Cutter die, Promarkers, 3d foam, white gel pen

Embellishments - Prima Flowers, buttons by Papermania, ribbon by DCWV

Techniques - Die cutting, faux stitching, decoupage

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Cheerful Stamp Pad #23 - Petals
• Craft Garden - Bold Bright & Loud
• Crafter's Companion #15 - Glitter & Glitz
• Crafty Calender Challenge - Hot Summer Colours
• Crafty Sentiments - Punches & Dies
• Cupcake Craft Challenges #154 - Stitching real or fake
• Cutie Sunday #146 - Flowers
• Delightful Challenges - Things With Wings
• Die Cutting Diva's #27 - In The Garden
• Digi's With Attitude #32 - Anything Goes
• Ellephantastic - Layers
• Fresh Brewed Designs #58 - Hot (Colours)
• Frosted Designs - Animals
• Fussy & Fancy Challenge - Use 3 or more of your fave embellishment (flowers, used 6)
• Gingerloft #22 - Make it sparkle
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations - Bingo (Digi, die cuts, flowers)
• Hotspot Challenge #7 - Pantone colours (bamboo)
• House of Gilli #13 - Polka Dots
• If The Shoe Fits FF#88 - Show Some Green
• Incy Wincy Designs #106 - Something Old & New (old is flowers & papers, new is digi)
• Jellypark Friends - Use Fave Embellishment (flowers)
• KB Cute Monday #24 - Use a Digi
• Kich N Bleus #5 - Use colour green
• Let's Craft & Create #25 - Use a Digi
• Lexi's Creations #46 - 1 2 3 recipe
• Mami Doodles #31 - Flowers
• Paper Pretties #166 - Use a Die Cut
• Paper Shelter #26 - Stitching Real or Fake
• Pattie's Creations #28 - Animals or Insects
• Pixie Cottage #82 - Say It With Flowers
• Sentimental Sunday #67 - Flowers & Sentiment
• Squigglefly #110 - Buttons
• Stamp Man #29 - Summer Colours
• Stampavie & More #149 - Card for a Girl
• Stamping For the Weekend #14 - Spots & Dots
• There's Magic in the Air - Animals
• Totally Gorjuss #93 - Round & Round
• Tuesday Trio #79 - Sketch plus happy bright colours
• Wag's n Whiskers #60 - Sparkly