Birthday card for a special friend

It was my lovely friend Lesley's birthday last week. This is the card I made for her.

Lesley's favourite colour is green, so I started with this green and pink paper from the Prima Firefly collection. These papers are so lovely, they were in danger of being kept in a box and only taken out and stroked occasionally, but I tool the plunge and put it into the guillotine before I lost my nerve, cutting the backing for an 8 x 8 card!!!

I added more green Distress Ink with a Stamps by Ryn Maidenhair Fern stencil. I added another stencil in the upper right corner. Butterflies are another favourite of Lesley, and these butterflies were cut out with a Tim Holtz die and matching embossing folder. This were coloured with more DIs and highlighted with some Treasure Gold. I felt the bodies needed more focus, so I cut out additional bodies which I shaped with an embossing tool and also added antennae using a Memory Box butterfly die.

The sentiment is stamped using a Carabelle Studio stamp and seems very appropriate. Sadly we get together IRL very rarely, so sending each other special birthday messages is all the more important.  I finished off with a couple of bling swirls.

I wish the photo was better, I just seem to be struggling to get the colours right at the moment.

Thanks for popping by! Your comments are always appreciated.

Elaine