Christmas Birthday

I have a couple of Birthdays in December

to make cards for.

The first is for  Aunt Eileen.

Here is the card that The Doc gave her

at the Weekend.

I wanted to make the card flowery

but also to reflect the time of the year

so I went with pink and used a Poinsettia die

for the flowers.

I only had one chance at taking the photos

as my camera refused to charge up on Friday night

and I knew it would only last one maybe two tries at the most.

The flowers look more peachy than IRL and you can just about see 

that each petal  has been coated in Diamond stickles.

They really do dazzle! I cut the leaves from green glitter card.

The die is by Poppy Stamps 'Blooming Poinsettia'.

I used a clear crystal gem in the centres.

The white die cut is Spellbinders 'Romantic Rectangle'

which I have adhered to a Raspberry Road design paper.

Silver sentiment sticker and the ribbon were from my stash.

As the card was not going to be posted I was able to make the flowers

really stand out from the base card. I made a special box up for 

the card to go in so that it wouldn't squash in transit.

Entering into the following challenges:

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes

Inspiration Destination #63 Anything goes.

Mod Squad Challenge # All that glitters.

Penny's Paper Crafty #257. Anything goes.

The Crafter's Cafe #138 Diecuts and/or punches.

Cute Card Thursday #403 Add some glitter.

Creative Fingers #99 Anything goes.

Spellbinding Stamps #6 Make it Sparkle.

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Crafty Time  Challenges # Anything goes.