Little Missy

OK, I refuse to tell you how long this card took me to make!! I'll give you a hint.....I colored the image 3 different times! The first 2 were with my Copics, & they just didn't turn out. I think because I tried using Walmart's Georgia Pacific paper (which works great with Prisma pencils) instead of Papertrey's white, which is what I usually use but it uses so much ink ...I'm in search of the "perfect Copic paper". I've been told Neenah Solar Crest & Gina K's white are both awesome.....it's just a matter of getting some.




Anyway...on to the card. So yes, I colored the image twice with Copics, unsuccessfully, so the third time I reached for my trusty Prismas. Can't go wrong with those!! BUT ~~ then I messed up the background so I had to cut the image out AND rethink the whole layout.....sigh.....this card was NOT going to get the best of me!!

Little Missy is an older High Hopes stamp, but she was on my wish list forever. I finally ordered her, & received her with this last batch of stamps. I cut her out (ha!) & placed her on a Pacific Point panel embossed with my CB Birds & Swirls folder (I *think* that's the name of it). I used my new Basic Grey Marrakech paper (bought with my LSS rummage money, so it was free!!) & some rusty orange DCWV paper for the matting. I used the Fiskars Apron Lace punch on the horizontal strip.....added the "Celebrate" from a Stampendous sentiment stamp....3 tiny rhinestones under the image....& of course some flowers in the corner.





I don't know if you can see the embossing on the blue flower. My friend Chris sent me some goodies recently, which included some embossed Primas. None would work with this card, but I thought they were cute so I made my own. After punching the flower I used my stylus to emboss the swirl from the same folder I used on the panel behind the main image. It's pretty subtle, but it does add a little something :)




And a blurry pic of the inside.....lol....my camera is misbehaving again today. Can't blame the yucky weather....it's so dark & rainy out that I used my homemade light box....& it still turned out blurry. And it can't POSSIBLY be an operator problem, so I'm blaming the camera, lol!



Well I hope you all have a FAB Tuesday. It's an early release day today so my kids will be home early.....we're going to get haircuts, eating an early supper, then I'm helping at school with Kindergarten Registration. Seems like just yesterday I was registering Michael.....but it's been a whole year!! Time really does fly when you get old!