Friendship Card

Hello everyone. 

I hope you are all well. 

I have been trying to get back into my cardmaking as it has fallen by the wayside recently to say the least!   I only seem to be making cards when someone asks me to and I am ashamed to admit that when it is a family/friend member's birthday I am buying shop bought cards!   HELLOOO!!  Craft room to Carrie.. you have a whole room full of lovelies so why waste money on shop bought card crap!  (No offence to any card shop owners/workers who may stumble across this blog post!!)

I decided to have a look on Do Crafts to see what swaps/challenges were on just now and stumbled across the Friendship Card Swap. This is a brilliant idea and a lot of people join in so I signed myself up for it. After the closing date I got my swap partner and went to work on a card.  I had some new papers which had never been used before and this is the card that I came up with for my swap partner...

Recipe:

Image - Forever Friends

Friendship Greeting - LOTV

Papers - Papermania Parkstone Pink Paper Pack

Flowers - Papermania (tipped with Promarkers!)

Pearls - Stampin' Up!

Glitter - Stampin' Up! Dazzling Diamonds

*Image coloured with Promarkers*

Now I am looking back on this card I don't think I like the tipped flowers which I done using Promarkers but I am still happy with this card.  This was also the first time I had used these papers and the first time I had used pearls on my cards.   I am very much a rhinestone/crystal/bling girl so using pearls was strange for me!  I did manage to get the glitter in there though so it wasn't to dull for my eyes lol.