I'm baaaaack!!

Hi everyone!

Let's see if I remember how to do this blogging thing...

Sorry I've been MIA for the last few weeks!! Had some family business to take care of and I totally lost my mojo to create!

But I'm back!! Celebrated my 38th Bday last weekend and guess what I got? More stamps and Copics!! Yay!! I feel like creating again and although I'm not overly enthusiastic about my latest creation, it will have to do.. LOL! It's a card I created for this week's challenge over at Just Magnolia . The challenge is to create a card with a pleated lace border.

I struggled a bit with this card... the coloring was quite frustrating because first I used orange on Tilda's shoes and it started bleeding. Couldn't even get it fixed with my colorless blender! Ugh! I didn't want to do the whole image again, so I cut out Tilda (I had masked the image with the gate), cut off the shoes and replaced them with some nice brown ones :o).

I think I should have chosen a different image to go with the lace... as I find the image with the lace a little too big for this card... I was hoping you could see more of the paper underneath... Oh well... it's done... on to the next one! LOL!

Here it is:

Sideview to show some dimension:

And a close-up of sweet Tilda:

See, I did forget something! I didn't take a picture of the Copics I used... But I will list the numbers at the bottom of the material list... Here you go:

Materials used:

Paper for stamping: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White #80

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, colored in with Copics (see below)
Stamps: Tilda with Spring Bundler and Open Gate from Magnolia's Hoppy Easter collection 2010, sentiment is from Stampin'Up!
Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
Patterned paper: Basic Grey (Ambrosia collection)
Flowers: Magnolia (large white rose) and Prima (small orange roses)
Lace: old stash
Pearls: Kaiser Krafts
Tools: butterfly and leaves punches from Martha Stewart, oval punch SU!, machine stitching

Copics used:
skin: E00 - E000 - R20
hair: E30 - E31 - E25 - E47
clothes: YR21 - YR15 - YR09 - YR18 and BG72 - BG75 - BG09
shoes: E50 - E42 - E43
flowers (in hand): G20 - YG17 - YR09
flowers (in grass): Y21- Y15 - YR23 - YR15 - YR18 - G20 - YG11 - G24 - YG17
fence: E53 - E31 - E33
sky: B0000

Thanks for visiting and see ya'll next time!!

Hugz,

Irma