SPS - Arrival of Spring

Sweet Pea Stamps

Hello folks, here I am again with another creation for  Sweet Pea Stamps.  Today I am sharing with you my DT creation for Artist Week  using the digi Arrival of Spring by Conie Fong.

I have a friends birthday coming up and bless her, last year I forgot.  So to make up for my thoughtlessness this year I have made her an extra special card.  My friend loves pearls and roses and I think she is going to love this one :) :) :)

I started by colouring the digi - oops forgot to take a pic of just the digi.  Here you see the coloured digi which I have fussy cut on the right hand side.  I have also used a mauve pearlised paper to line the inside of the card.

 Promarkers used.

 OK - so you know I fussy cut the right hand side, here you can see that better.

Now to complete the simple bow using a pieces of lovely purple ribbon that came in a scrap bundle that was in a sale lol.

 To make the charm section I used a rose metal charm and then added beads to the fishing line. Normally I use stranded cotton to attach charms but thought I would try the fishing line today.  Big bother as it had retained its coil.  To try to remove this I attached the metal charm first for a bit of weight and then held it up and used the heat gun to heat up the plastic and hopefully reshape it lol.  Worked but hot on the fingers and it did not help that my head forgot to compute that metal gets hot so big ouch when I touched the metal charm !!!!

 I am adding flowers to the bow area where the charm will also be hanging.  After trimming off the metal stems of the flowers I took a toothpick to make spiral bits - hey waste not want not.

 Here you see the flowers, spirals and charm attached to the bow on the card.

 Now the reason I fussy cut the right edge is so that I could use acetate or in this case a clear overhead projector sheet so I could give the pearls and my friends name a floating effect.

Finished card side view

 Finished card

Thank you for stopping by :)

Ingredients

• Digi Holly Arrival of Spring by Conie Fong available from Sweet Pea Stamps
• Promarkers
• Flowers, charm, beads, ribbon from my from my stash

Challenges entered

• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - W, 5E - A product or technique you wish you used more often - TECHNIQUE, USING ACETATE
• Crafty Bloggers Network - M, SIO - (June) BINGO* - PEARLS, FLOWERS, CHARM
• 613 Avenue Create - W - #77 Anything + Option : Pink
• Dragonfly Dreams - M – June – Things with Wings
• Crafty Calendar - M, 1E -  Petals and Pearls
• Sugar Creek Hollow  - 2W, 3E, SIO (W2 of 2) #89 Floral
• Craftitude -2W, 3E -  No. 67 - (W2 of 2) - Use Flowers and/or Lace
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.116 - (W2 of 2) - Things with Wings
• In the Pink - 2W, 3E, lots of pink –  (W2 of 2) #46 Flower Garden
• Digistamps 4 Joy - 2W, SIO  - #94 Flowers (2nd week)
• Crafty Creations - 2W - #265 Tic Tac Toe* (2nd week) - FLOWERS, RIBBON, DIGITAL IMAGE
• Whimsy Inspiration -M, 3E, SIO - #72 Tic Tac Toe - PEARLS, BIRTHDAY, SENTIMENT