Hello

I love correspondence.  When I was young, my mum and I would sit on the porch together and write cards.  According to my mum, it is bad form not to send ‘thank you’ cards and reprehensible to not correspond in general.  I made this card to participate in a challenge hosted by Neat and Tangled because I like creating cards.  But I needed this card because I’m quite delinquent in saying ‘hello’ to my grandmum.  (Reprehensible indeed.)  😉

To make this card I used my MISTI to stamp ‘Bonjour’ and then began stamping the flowers into a wreath.  The image of the little girl is actually longer and she has an eiffel tower on her head.  I masked portions of her off before stamping her in Memento ink onto the A2 panel.  

With all the stamping complete I pulled out my copic markers!  I used E70, E74 and E79 on her hair and E0000, E000 and E50 on her skin.  Her dress is a mix of BG10, BG13 and YG23.  For the flowers I used  a combination of Y000, YG21, YG03, YG17, RV13 and RV21.  Finally, I placed removable masking tape across the card panel horizontally to create the stripes “behind” the focal point – I colored these stripes in using G20.

To complete this card I cut down my card panel along the top and bottom to allow some of the white card stock beneath show through.  Using some irRESISTible pico embellisher and white gel pen, I filled in the centers of several of the flowers.  Finally, I adhered my  panel to a card, added some glossy accents to the heart on her dress, and was done!

I hope you enjoyed my card!