A Ladies Diary Birthday

I hope you are all enjoying more settled weather than we have around here. It's been a mixed bag of weather meaning plenty of time for crafting but I keep forgetting to blog my makes. So, today here is a birthday card I recently made. It took a lot of careful consideration to decide which bits of my treasured Graphic 45 papers to cut up for this one.

This is a 7"x 7" card. I coloured some plain card with pink Pan Pastels for all the mats and scruffed the edges. The papers are from A Ladies Diary. I used two papers and one of my favourite images from this collection. I tucked in a postcard, a Tonic die-cut oval and some mini stamps. The lace is from my stash.

I fussy cut some of the beautiful flowers and added a touch of glaze to some of the petals before mounting on the card with foam pads.

I stamped the sentiment, cut it out and embellished it with more flowers and a mini stamp image.

I finished the card by colouring a seam binding bow, adding a floral cabochon and a metal corner. 

I've used about a third of this G45 collection now so I'm starting to panic about using it up. On the other hand, that's a good excuse to treat myself to one of the newer gorgeous collections.

I've entered this card in the following challenges:
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-136.html x
http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/july-challenge-summer-breeze.html x
http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2015/07/himcr-208-lol-lots-of-layers.html x
http://stampingwithdragon.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/shabby-chic-with-dragons-lair-designs.html ?
http://alohafridaychallenges.blogspot.ca/2015/07/aloha-friday-challenge-52-summer-fun.html x