May's Awareness Month

May is an awareness Month for many things.  One cause near and dear to my heart is Bipolar Awareness, so I made a special card for Bipolar Awareness and Stopping the Stigma associated with it and all mental illnesses.

Front View

Here's the full front view.  The image is an old freebie digi stamp and unfortunately I don't remember what blog I received it from. I found the blog I received it from- A Day of Daisies.  The sentiment was typed freehand using Creating Keepsake's Peeking Posies font and another CK font I had in my stash. The image was colored using Copic Markers.  I embellished the coloring using yellow Stickles in the center of each flower, Mystic Green Stickles for the short stem portion near the top of the flowers on some flowers, and Tim Holtz's Distress Stickles in Vintage Photo for the Flower vines.  The Green Ribbon was embellished using the clear Glaze Pen to allow the shading of the Copics to show through.  

Close-up View

Here's a closer view of the card so you can see more of the details.
The DP (Designer Paper) for matting is from one of my new favorite lines- MME (My Mind's Eye) Collectable- "Noteable" series.  The solid cardstock is, as always, Bazzill, with the actual card being made from Suede Brown Dark.  I almost always use Coconut Swirl when I print out my digis from my printer.  I corner rounded each corner using my We R Memories Corner Chomper-Deco Style and then inked the edges of each piece with Java Brown chalk ink from my stash.  I then used some domed gems in light green in two different sizes from my stash on each corner of the images.  I put together the flowers using prima flowers from my stash- they came in the purple bitty flowers bag that I purchased from apassionforscrappinretreats.com and secured them using brads from the MME Find Your Wings and Fly- "Up & Away" and "Sky's the Limit" Designer Brads packages.  The colors just went so well together. 

One hint for you, if you fall in love with a line and you buy the paper and embellishments, don't keep them exclusively together.  By filing them by color you'll get much more use out of them as you'll find that the embellishments will go with so many more things, as well as the paper going with other embellishments.  It will help you think out of the box.

Finally, speaking of Thinking out of the Box, help understand Bipolar Disorder and help stop the Stigma.......

Until Thursday.................  Craft on and give someone a hug!