A Spring Bling card in pinks and teals

Hiya peeps, 

Another week has gone by and Im getting better, Over Christmas & NewYear, when I was ill. Luckily the bad chest infection I had, is almost gone. Back to the important reason why Im 

writing about the beautiful card shown below ......

As my followers know, Im a disabled single parent who will not be able to 

work ever again so I craft for the majority of the day (when Im well enough)

making cards and some upcycling/altered art. I have been crafting for most of 

my life, (Im now in my 50's), I can sew both by hand & machine, 

and I also used to enjoy cross stitch, some embroidery and painting. I have 

been papercrafting for the past 6 years since I had to stop working. 

I need to keep my mind & hands occupied. 

I am already on two DT's, which I love to take part with: 

Crafting Musketeers Challenge Blog and Crafty Ribbons Website and Challenge Blog.

I was/still am on the DT for A Crafty Mess Challenge Blog but the blog & Facebook 

account seem to have disappeared and non of my fellow DT ladies know what has 

happened. We cant even get in touch with the admin/founder of the blog. 

Well, Im posting today with a card that I have made for a DT (design team) call over at 

Tiddly Inks. Im in love with a great deal of their fabulous images, whether they are 

digital or clear rubber. 

I love the image, Wryn Spring Bling, and decided that I would use my favourite colours 

(for cards) at the moment in pinks and teals.. So after colouring her in a mixture of

Graph It and Promarker alcoholic ink pens, I was extremely pleased with the outcome of

Wryn. I then cut Wryn out using a Spellbinders Labels One die set and once I had found the

size of die I needed, proceeded to cut out the shape.

As you can see I also cut 3 other Labels One but in the larger "Grande" sizes. I layered them 

using foam pads and then stuck the decorative hat pins in the one corner with the small

organza ribbon bow. Closely followed by the pink patterned paper, which is from the Me2You 

range of papercrafting essentials. I then stuck a piece of organza ribbon, just slightly longer

than the height of the card, Stick this down with sellotape on the reverse, topping with a bead 

strip which, in the case of the strip I used is very sparkly! 

The cherry blossom flowers are from a fabulous company called Wild Orchid Crafts and the gardenias are from my own stash.  The sentiment was stamped on to plain white card and 

then cut around to be glued to the lightly embossed teal card stock, matt & layered with the 

mirror card and the 3 faux pearls were all from my own stash too.

I hope you like this creation as much as I do. 

Im really hoping that I can get on the wonderful & very talented Design Team.

I am entering this card in to the following Blog Challenge:

Tiddly Inks DT Call ending 15th January 2015