Happy Birthday Lynda

Today is a very special birthday for a lovely customer and friend Lynda (hope you have a great day).  I would like to share with you the card that I made for her.

I have again used one of my most favourite sets A Rose is a Rose.  The colours are Very Vanilla, Elegant Eggplant and Certainly Celery.

The focal image circle was cut using my circle scissors, which I am excited to say will be in the Summer Mini catalogue being released on the 1st December.  I love being able to use circles of any size and the circle scissors is the easiest circle cutter I have ever used.  Circles from 1″ to 6″ can be cut very quickly.

The roses were created using Elegant Eggplant which I stamped off twice for the first image before overstamping with a first generation stamping of Elegant Eggplant to give that subtle shading.  The leaves were stamped off once and then overstamped with a first generation stamping of Certainly Celery.  I used lots of masks to get the roses to look like they were in a bunch.  The strip of designer paper is actually Very Vanilla cardstock which I have stamped with the small rose and leaf which is also part of this set.

A touch of ribbon, a beautiful edge created with the Eyelet Edge Punch, a few dimensionals and the card is done.

I absolutely love the way this one turned out.  What do you think?