A Little More Than A Card

This wasn't what I had in mind when I planned on making a card for my lovely niece.She is a synchronised swimmer and I planned on making her a card using both of the swimmers in the set Suzy 5 by Marij Rahder,but somewhere along the line I thought I'd like to make Megs a book mark using just one of the images. I coloured it using Copics and added a little Stickles, then cut it out. I cut a tag using the Cricut, Plantin Schoolbook cartridge,and cut out the letters in Italics. I used distress inks around the tag,added some gel pen stitches then stuck on the image.

I wasn't sure how I was going to incorporate it into a card but the only way to go was to make a zig-zag fold card.

When I looked at the lovely paper,White Loopy Flowers Flip Flop paper by The Paper Loft I knew exactly what needed to be done. I cut around part of one of the blooms and placed a small piece of acetate to the back of the paper cutting through this the same so that it would be strong enough to hold the book mark in place.

I also cut out the numbers using the same cartridge, hand cut and stamped the bunting and that's it,finished. A fairly simple card to make but looks pretty good me thinks.

Megan loves colour,she's a rainbows and butterflies kind of girl,and is growing into a beautiful young woman with a beautiful nature to match, I hope she has a lovely birthday next week.

I'm going to use this for the following challenges:-

TPC41,Tag it,

AI Factory,It's a garden party,

PRC30,Everything but the kitchen sink,
Crafty Sentiments 42,Make a gift, (the bookmark)

YNS28,Book mark it,

TBD,Anything goes,

PTTC19,Birthday,

Paper Playtime 23,use a clock,ticket or tag,

Crafty Cardmakers 33,Stitching,

The Crafty Pad 95,Stitching.

Thanks for stopping by,

Julie.x