Easter Bliss

Thursday 28 June 2012

Black and White Birthday

I have made this birthday card with the bonus challenge at Emma's Cards in mind. You can find the challenge here   http://www.emmascardsuk.com/p/sketch-challenge.html
The sponsor for this special challenge is the lovely Audrey from The Lilac Garden and the theme is based on a sketch which you can see further down.


I started by using a poppy digi from one of my MCS discs and tiling it to make the backing paper. I then layered that onto black card and matted them onto the front of an A5 card blank, leaving a thin white border all the way round. I took the image of the lady from Joanna Sheen's Dancing With Shadows CD and digitally cropped her into an oval,  then gave her a black border, again in MCS. I also created the sentiment at the same time.
I made the center strip by layering black card onto silver mirri card and wrapping some lace around it. I then fixed it to the card before mounting the oval image on foam pads and placing on the card.
I hand cut the number 30 twice, once from black card and again from silver mirri then mounted the silver 30, slightly off-set, onto the black one for dimension.
The embellishments include a Memory Box scroll and a couple of Crealies scrolls die cut from silver mirri, some Foundation flowers, coloured with Promarkers and some black fluffy feathers. I added Candi to the flower centers and a few Cosmic Shimmer pearls for the finishing touches.
This is the sketch:


11 comments:

  1. Wow, this is stunning Sweetie, Good luck x

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  2. A beautiful card, Andree lovely layering and I love the central image (that cd is lovely) such an imaginative rendering of the design. Vee xx (wonderful hand cutting)

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  3. A gorgeous card, good luck in the challenge

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  4. That is fantastic Andree love the backing paper and image too xxxxxxxxxxxx good luck in the challenge xxxxxxxxx

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  5. This is stunning Andree, thanks for entering our sketch challenge at Emma's Cards UK, good luck xxxx

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  6. Lovely card Andree . Love your use of feathers and flowers. Good luck in the challenge
    XXXX

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  7. wow love this so much and i wish you all the luck good luck xxxx

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  8. Stunning Andree, I love the monochrome look and the feathers look fabulous with the design you have created.

    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  9. Oh this is just so stunning hun, I love the image and the colours and those feathers look wonderful, love it
    Lindsay xx

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  10. Lovely card..love how you put the feathers on their and made it an original 'keepsake' love it

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