Be Happy and Carefree!

First, I'd like to apologize for not posting lately.  I, unfortunately, was involved in a car accident that totaled out my 97 Rav4, but thankfully I only suffered abrasions and some severe contusions from the seatbelts and airbags, and a moderate concussion.  My poor car gave it's life to save mine and everytime I see the damage to her, I am very thankful that I escaped without further injury.  

Front View

Now I'm in the midst of looking for a new mode of transportation and going through sticker and technical advancement shock.  Gone are the days when the biggest thing you could get on your car was the keyless entry and seat warmers and a sunroof.  Now your car is computerized and does everything for you.  I laughed and said it was going to take me a month to figure out how to use the radio and the wipers, let alone the coffee machine.  Yes, I jest about the coffee machine, but good golly, the cars do everything else for you- why hasn't someone figured out a way to have it do something useful like make coffee??  Maybe that's on next years model!  LOL!

Now on to the task at hand......  I made this darling card for a friend of mine whose birthday is today.  I used the adorable digi stamp from Sassy Cheryl called "Polly's Pink Flower Pot."

Sorry for the fuzziness of the picture- new phone and I'm still learning on it.  Everything used on the card were items I had in my stash. The card was colored using Copic Markers.  The papers used are Bazzill papers, Coconut Swirl to stamp on (a must), Heidi (the purple), Parakeet (the green), and the bittersweet orange, which is a favorite of mine, is Saltillo.  The flowers are from Prima's Bitty Bag of Flowers and I just picked out the colors to go along with the card and assembled them.  I glued them down with glossy accents as I didn't want to use brads and then topped each flower off with a Dew Drop in pearl. The pink ribbon is from my stash and I just cut a piece and set it off at an angle and secured it down using Red Tape on the back of each end and on several spots on the front.  The little "Be Happy" bingo card is from the DP paper 6x6 stack Simple Stories-Vintage Bliss, and I accented it with a  pink/white twine bow at the top.  To add dimension, I secured the bingo card down using a Tim Holtz Message Pin stuck through the ribbon.  I have a close-up of the digi and of the "Be Happy" embellishment so you could get a better look.

 Here you can see where I used stickles and smooch to embellish the image.  Also on the flower you can see where I added a Dew Drop in pearl to the center of the flower.  I used that flower as the basis for the floral embellishments on the card.  Can you see the little ladybugs and the bird on the digi too?  The photo just doesn't do the card justice.  It really doesn't show off the shading I was able to achieve using different stickles in combo with the copics.

 On the opposite side you can see the "Be Happy" card and look- It had a 7 and an 11, so I circled both since that's her birthday!  How awesome!  You can see how it's just a very simple twine bow and how the Message Holder Pin is easily stuck through the ribbon.  It is not glued down in any way.  You also get a close up of one of the flowers in the layers.  That Prima purple Bitty Bag has all shapes, sizes, and colors of flowers in it and was well worth the $6 I paid for it.  I still have tons of flowers left, and they are the perfect size for card making.  The place where I used to get them doesn't carry them any more, but I'll have to check and see if they are going to get them back in stock, or if it's something Prima has stopped making.












All in all I really do like the way the card turned out.  I only wish the pictures turned out better.  I'll have to play with my camera and phone and see which one works better to capture the clearest and most detailed pictures and then post a better picture.

Thanks for checking in and as always craft on and I've got a bunch of things in the hopper to be posting!