Lavender Sky

I have a sweet card using a Saturated Canary image today - Ava. This is a lovely 'freebie' from Krista Smith, which just captured my attention immediately. The look of innocence and all the sweet frilly layers on her dress, I just love it! I'm planning to give this to a friends daughter for her birthday and went for a lovely 'sunny blonde' as her daughter has the most stunning sunny blonde hair. I added a little glitter to the highlight areas for fun and just to see how it would turn out and I'm quite pleased with my experiment. I glittered the balloon first and am not so sure it's not a little OTT, but overall, I'm pretty pleased with this lil' cutie. I masked the image to create the lavender sky behind. I haven't tried this technique before and I'm so happy with how it came out. I really wanted to keep the sky in the same colours as I'd chosen for the main image, so it almost has a 'dusk' feel about it.

I completely adore gingham, my favourite is red gingham, but any gingham makes my heart sing, don't ask me why, it's just a quirk of mine! So I was super excited to find a lovely yellow gingham paper that worked with the golden hair I'd chosen, it was in my stash, and I'm not sure where from, sorry, will update if I find out the details. The spotty paper was actually cut out of a crafty shop advertisement and the check paper is from the lovely 'We R Memory Keepers' paper stack - Travel Light. This 6x6 paper stack was a free gift with one of the 'Simply Cards & Papercraft' magazine issues. I really like these papers, there are some really fun designs for the men in our lives! But this check just worked perfectly for today's make.

I was really happy with the sweet daisy flowers to finish the design, and sadly can't recall where I got those, as they've been in my stash for ages. But the lovely white lace is from Wild Orchid Craft and is stunning. I love the look of guipure lace on cards.

The sentiment ticket I bought a long time ago, I thought from Cuddly Buddly, but can't find the link for it, so please correct me if you know otherwise! The lovely rainbow shimmer gemstones and the sweet yellow gingham bow I bought from Mei Flower at the Alexandra Palace Big Stamp and Scrapbooking Show.

I am entering this card into the 'Saturated Canary Challenge #21. I've wanted to enter for ages, but just don't usually get the time to make cards specific to the challenges, but this challenge is 'Bling it on' and I think this card qualifies!

I am also entering this card into the Passion for Promarkers 157 - Gingham/Checks. How perfect is that! Love my Promarkers, all my cards are coloured with these fabby pens.

Let me know what you think and thanks for looking today. Hugs, Wends x