Just For U Elaine

It was our Elaine's birthday back in May and this is the card I made for her.  I'd really liked how the colour combination of the Just For U card I'd made for Brenda, a crafting friend, had turned out so I cased it for Elaine.  Apart from the paper piecing on the letters being different the only other differences are the coloured insert and purple brads.

The patterned papers are from the Nitwit Collections Promises and Snow Princess Solids and plain card in toning colours were chosen for the backing layers and the flower embellishments.  The Nitwit Collections are ideal to use with all their matching papers in colour and design.

The flower embellishments were made using a mixture of Marianne ribbon dies, layered flower dies and stitching dies with Card Candi from Craftwork Cards in their centres.  The little flowers were punched using the X-cut small flower punch and have crystal dot peel off centres.

The Just for U was stamped and embossed on to the Snow Princess patterned paper using VersaMark ink and Disco Black embossing powder from Stampendous.  It was then stamped and embossed on to two of the patterned papers from the Promises Collection.  Alternate letters were cut from each patterned paper design and paper pieced on to the main topper.  The topper was then dry embossed using the Cuttlebug Falling Snow embossing folder.  This welds the paper piecing to the card and adds texture which I hope you can see in the picture.  A stitched border was added before the topper was framed and layered using square Grand Nestabilities dies.

A stitched border was also added to the other two panels on the card and along with the flowers, ribbon , a bow and brads were the extra embellishments.

Elaine's birthday landed on a Sunday this year so she and Andy set off for a weekend stay in Spean Bridge.  One of their aims for the weekend was to photograph the steam train crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct.  They'd been on the train journey last year but wanted to capture a photo of the train whilst crossing. Three factors were making this aim difficult as Elaine had a sore hip, the weather over the weekend was wet and the train was still following a Monday to Friday timetable.  Monday morning was the only opportunity for the photo shoot.

This is a picture of Elaine during the soggy reconnaissance trip to work out the best viewing point.

This was the result.

 

  Happy birthday girl.

There are more happy photos of Elaine to come next time.  Thanks for reading today.

Liz xxx

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges
Penny Black and More June Challenge - Use Your Favourite Stamp
2 Sisters Challenge 177 - Make Your Own Embellishments
Papercrafting Challenges 13 - Anything Goes
Craft for the Craic June Challenge - Something Summery or with Flowers
Crafty Ribbons Challenge 95 - Stitching Real or Faux with Ribbon
Diva's by Design Challenge June 25th - Favourite Stamp
Penny's Challenge 183 - Embossing 
Ruby's Rainbow Challenge 82 - Stamping
Loves Rubber Stamps Challenge 109 - Handmade  Flowers
Bunny Zoe's Crafts June Challenge - Layers