A Big day For A Little Girl

Hello everyone, today I

have got a card to show you 

that I made this afternoon for the eldest of my five little 

Great Granddaughters. She is going to start school  next week and she is really

looking forward to it. How

time flies!!!. She is quite a

bright little girl and we have

enjoyed some happy crafty

sessions together during the 

summer. 

I was ordering stamps from

LOTV recently and I thought

this stamp was perfect for the

occasion. I stamped it onto a snippet of white card with 

Archival Watering Can ink and coloured it with Zig water colour pens. I cut it out using a Spellbinders circle die, and inked the edge lightly with Stormy Sky Distress ink. The sentiment is computer generated and cut with a smaller die from the same set and inked in the same way. The patterned paper is cut from a 6" pad that I have had for ages, I think it is Penny Black. I found a piece of dark blue card in the snippets box which wasn't big enough to cut the backing mat and the scalloped mats, so I cut the square first to fit the front of my 6" square card base, leaving a narrow border, and then cut the larger scalloped mat from the center of it. I cut the smaller scalloped mat from the center of the large one both using Spellbinders scalloped circle dies. I stuck the patterned paper to the blue card and then to the card front. The alphabet ribbon has been in my stash for years and I was pleased to find a use for it at last. The ribbon is quite thick so I tucked it right inside the card by making a slit in the spine and threading it through and secured it inside with sticky tape. I always add a separate insert which hides the ends. To finish I stuck the image and sentiment discs to their respective scalloped mats and fixed the smaller one to the card with double sided tape and the image one with foam tape.

I am going to enter this at Pixies Snippet Playground - Use Snippets

 and at Cuttlebug Mania - Anything Goes with Die Cuts and / or Embossing

                                                      ( I used my Cuttlebug to do the die cutting)

Thank you for looking here today and for your comments, I really appreciate them.

Jean