All dressed up

Good evening friends, from a very wet and grey part of South Africa. Boy did we have rain this morning, the heavens opened up for about 45 mins. even came flooding into my studio. So a mad scramble for towels to stop the water and lift anything off the floor.... and more predicted for the next 3 days. Anyway as long as there are no more mishaps I can at least keep crafting.
The card today is for a challenge on a PCP group "anything but cute". We were given the template of the dress to download. This is what I did.
Paper: white card, matted a blue onto that. Used a pale blue velum which I put through the cuttlebug and attached it with brads. The DP was a free download from Jak Heath. She gives us lovely free papers fairly regularly. I printed it onto a cream shimmer card and cut the dress out of it. The shoe was also a freebie from Jak, which I printed onto the same paper and just coloured the bow slightly. Attached a ribbon, some liquid pearls round the neck and a sentiment printed on the computer again in velum and attached to the ribbon.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend doing whatever you love best. Warm wishes.

Shelly's & Create4fun

One card 2 challenges.

This is a first time challenge for me at Shelly's images. While on holiday last month I had the good fortune to win a digital image from Shelly. This is not the one that I chose, but loved this image and decided to get it. So I thought it would make a good birthday card.
Creat4fun require a digital image to be used.
The challenge on Shelly's blog was to use blue, sewing, material(ribbon) or buttons and all based on the fact that Shelley's Mom is having a birthday this month and loves to use all these elements. So this is what I came up with.

Card: white and matted DP printed from a download offered byJak. Pop over and visit her. She has wonderful cards and offers free downloads of beautiful papers on a regular basis. I cut out an oval with a Nellie Snellen multiframe die and put my image into that,
Image: Shelly's "mayflowers". I printed this image twice. Once on white card, then on the DP and cut out the umbrella pieced this onto the original image. I coloured the flowers with a combination of distress inks, twinling H20's, watercolour pencils and added a bit of Flower Soft to fill in the gaps.
Sentiment: I stamped this onto the DP and again cut with my Nellie Snellen die, threaded ribbon through,
Finished it off with 2 layers of ribbon and small flower buttons, cutting off the shanks.
I also decorated the inside with the DP. Here the lovely design is more visible, stamped a message onto that.

Halfway through the week already. See you all soon.