Cake Easel Card

Morning everyone.....I spied a tutorial for this card over at Stempeleinmaleins and thought I must try.  My very good friend in New Zealand is having her birthday this Friday, 18th February.  So a perfect chance to try it out.

So I dragged out some papers and card that I had won a little while a go at a Stampin Up day.  I think they are older colours as they don't quite match what I have in my collection.  Pretty all the same, just can't tell you their names.

The front of the card I embossed with my Victoria embossing folder.  Sticker flowers with bling.  My friend is always up for a little fun and although this lady in the image doesn't look like her what she is doing looks something my friend would do on her birthday.  I found this terrific 'free' image at Beccy's Place called Nell on Bicycle.  I coloured her with my watercolour pencils and then added some Kindy Glitz to the dress and hat.  Oh and I tried a little thing that I saw over at Alice's (Little) Wonderland.  This is where she inked random stamps around the edge of the original image to make it pop.  

Now isn't this such a fun card.  I just loved the fact that I could send my friend a birthday cake.  Yes, thanks to the tutorial, I have made the cake and the little candle box from scratch.  I have had this wonderful Pearl Touch in my collection for ages and spied it.  Lucky as it was the perfect match for the colours I was using and I think looks like icing on a cake.  Some more little punched flowers and bling.

Now this is the lovely purse and tissue holder that I was lucky enough to win in Cathy's auction she had to raise money for the Queensland Funds.  Cathy raised an amazing $165......well done.  Such beautiful and neat sewing.  These are now jettsetting their way over to NZ too.

I am such a lucky person.   The beautiful Gail from Gail's Crafty Goings On sent me this wonderful pack of goodies.  :-)  This was a prize for being the one the that has commented most on her blog.  Well what can I say.....I just love visiting her blog and seeing her wonderful creations...they all deserve a comment. Thanks so much Gail.  There are lots of papers to play with.  A sheet of Acetate with flourishes on ..... bottom right.  I have never seen these before but really look forward to using them.  Something else I haven't seen befor eare the strips of maroon, green, and yellow papers with gold design and bling that look like ribbon.  I think they will be great on a card too.

Wishing you all a terrific Tuesday.

Oh....I will enter my card above into the following challenges:

Oooh La La - For Someone Special ends 20th February

Stampin with the Dragon - Anything Goes ends 17th February

Fab 'n' Funky #59 - Tempting Texture ends 17th February

Do You Stack Up #6 - Ribbon ends 16th February