The snow-drop, April’s meekest child…

Sharing a CAS birthday card I made for a friend featuring the image she had done for her by Mayzy, this is Corinne.

It’s actually quite a good likeness of Corinne, with her big hair and big smile!

My card layout comes from the current sketch at Hand Stamped Sentiments and my sentiment from a retired Stampin’ Up! set called Perfect Words.  I double matted everything in black and red to echo the colours of Corinne’s top, she loves red and black.

Now it might seem a bit odd to have snowflakes on a birthday card but when I saw they were the theme at Addicted to Stamps and also the embellie shape on the sketch I just had to go with them.  After all, Corinne loves the snow, loves her short shorts too.  Strange for an Aussie like me to contemplate wearing short shorts in weather cold enough for snow but guess when you’re used to the cold you can wear what you want.

I added in my snowflakes with another retired Stampin’ Up! stamp called Serene Snowflakes as well as a Tim Holtz Frozen Alpha Parts.  For some added sparkle, the current theme over at Crafty Friends, I did the snowflakes in glitter and popped some rhinestones in the centre.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E30, E35, 0

Lips E04, R56, R59

Hair YR20, YR23, YR14, Y28

Outfit N7, N9, R29, R46, R59, 100

Chalks & Powders etc

Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Dust ~ Vintage Platinum

Embellishments

Champagne Rhinestones from stash

Kaisercraft Sparklets ~ Coral

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Alpha Parts ~ Frozen

Inks & Paints etc

Copic Multiliner ~ Black

Molotow Paint Pen ~ Signal White

Ranger Archival Dina Wakley Media ~ Ruby

Papers

Bazzill Orange Peel Cardstock ~ Garnet

Bazzill Prismatic Cardstock ~ Black

Glossy White Cardstock from stash

Stamps

Mayzy Art ~ Corinne (commissioned image)

Stampin’ Up! ~ Serene Snowflakes & Perfect Words (both retired)

Challenges

Addicted to Stamps #138 ~ Snowflakes

Crafty Friends #47 ~ Sparkle

Hand Stamped Sentiments #254 ~ Sketch

Thanks for stopping by!