Happy Birthday Roxy

I made this card for a very special little girl. She is the Granddaughter of one of our best friends. I have seen her grow up from being about 9 months old and she is such a pretty girl with the most amazing character. She loves to learn, is extremely bright and really reminds me of myself at her age. She comes out with the funniest things and is such fun to be around J

I was very lucky to have won a challenge at Emerald Faeries and chose this image as my prize as Roxy loves ladybirds and I knew it would be the perfect image for her birthday card.

I coloured the image using Promarkers & Flexmarkers, she loves the colour purple so the flower had to be that colour. I have added loads of stickles glitler glue to the wings so they were really sparkly. I used a Nestabilities die to cut out the image and inked the edges with a small pad.

The spotty paper is from the Family Ties First Edition pad by Dovecraft, again the edges have been distressed to knock it back a little. The black card is from my scraps box and I used a Martha Stewart heart border punch on it. The pretty sparkle swirl is by Prima and was on a big sheet. I just snipped it out from a couple of shapes until I was happy with the fit.

To personalise it I have used a chipboard number and some letter stickers from my stash and coloured them with a black marker. The sentiment is from my stash mounted onto a scrap of black card.

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Ally & Beeble by A & T Digital Designs

Sentiment – from stash

Paper – Familiy Ties First Edition pad by Dovecraft

Embellishments – Gem swirl by Prima, Chipboard number, letter stickers, Stickles glitter glue

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Martha Stewart border punch,  Nestabilities Die, small ink pad

Techniques – Distressing, punching, die cutting

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

• Art Impressions Stamps #84 – Child’s Birthday
• ATC’s & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• Blogger’s Challenge – Take Flight
• Card Mania #5 – Happy Birthday
• Cards by Lady Anne – Anything Goes
• Clear It Out Challenge – Orange, Purple or Black (old items chipboard number & letters)
• Clearly Inspired #61 – Sentimental
• Crafts 4 Eternity R#93 – Bugs
• Crafts and Me #105 – Anything Goes
• Craftymess #19 – Anything Goes
• Crafty Blogger’s Network #4 – Anything Goes
• Crafty Ribbons #30 – Child’s Birthday
• Crafty Sentiments – Anything Goes
• Creative Craft Challenge – Fantasy
• Deep Ocean Challenge #36  –  Anything Goes
• Diva’s By Design #56 – Anything Goes
• DL Art Thankful Thursday – Anything Goes
• Emerald Faeries #33 – Flowers
• Fat Pages & Cards With Attitude – Anything Goes
• House of Gilli  – Anything Goes
• Incy Wincy Designs – Anything Goes
• Inspire Me Fridays #80 – Anything Goes
• LEJ Designs #24 – Happy Birthday
• Lollipop Crafts #91 – Something Old (chipboard number & letters) Something New (digi & gem swirls)
• Loves Rubber Stamps #21 – Bling Baby Yeah
• Make It Monday #110 –  Anything Goes
• My Graphico #138 – Anything Goes
• Oldie But Goodie – Inspired by a song (Ladybird by Nancy Sinatra) Old itens chipboard number & letters
• Papelitos Challenges #15 – Anything Goes
• Paper Crafting Journey – Add Some Bling
• PaperPlay #41 – Simply Cute
• Papertake Weekly  – All Creatures Great & Small
• Perfect Sentiment #53A – Happy Birthday or Anniversary
• Pin & Tack Spark Your Creativity Now!  #2 – Anything Goes
• Pixie Dust Studio – Full of Fantasy
• Quirky Crafts #21 – Magical Moments
• Sassy Cheryl’s #136 – Happy Birthday
• Sentimental Sundays #123 – Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp – Dies & Punches
• Simply Create #6 – Anything Goes
• Sparkle & Glitter #1 – Anything Goes
• Through The Craftroom Door #39 – Anything Goes
• Top Tip Tuesday #87 – Things With Wings
• Tuesday Alchemy #35 – Anything Goes
• Unique Crafters Challenge – Sugar & Spice
• Whimsy Inspirations #52 – All Things Sparkly