Forgetting May, deeming October sweet?

Abigail Larson’s stunning rendition of the Zodiacs are available as digis from Simply B Stamps and my card today features the beautiful Libra.

I’ve made this card for a friend’s birthday, isn’t October a grand month for a birthday?

Distressing is something I’ve only just got into and it just seems to be the perfect accompaniment to one of Abigail’s images.  I wasn’t quite brave enough to properly distress Libra though, I think I would have cried if I had to recolour her so I just stuck to adding some distress ink around her.  I’ve also finally gotten into my stash of Twiddleybitz chipboard, I have a whole boxful from my LSS just crying out to be used.

The layout of my card is a slightly reworked version of the current sketch at Unscripted Sketches.  I took the two small round elements from the side and stuck them on top as flowers, I always like to cover the ends of ribbon and moving them here worked better with my image being so big and being placed on the right.  I’m also entering this card at the current challenges at Chocolate, Coffee & Cards, where flowers are the theme, and Crafty Ribbons where it’s anything goes with ribbon.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53, (cheeks E11)

Lips R46

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Dress B000, B00, B02, B05

Scales Y23, Y26, Y28

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Paper Blooms – Ruby

Twiddleybitz Ornate Flourish

Inks & Paints etc

Distress Ink – Tea Dye & Walnut Stain

Smooch Spritz – Log Cabin

Papers

CTMH Mischief collection

Core’dinations Distress Cardstock – Tumbled Glass

Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells Patterns & Solids

Ribbons & Trims

Brown Velvet Ribbon from stash

Green Tara Bead Garland – Gold

Webster’s Pages Lace

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Steampunk Zodiac Libra

Challenges

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenges #49 – Flowers

Crafty Ribbons Challenge #64 – Anything Goes with Ribbon

Unscripted Sketches #225

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