Fabulous birthday

A belated birthday card for an acquaintance… Before I knew it, it had turned out really pink and girly. 

The lacy borders were strips of pale pink cardstock cut using Victorian pattern scissors by Unicorn, then the little holes were punched using the sharp end of my compass to create more patterns (improvisation!). It turned out beautifully, and I will definitely be using this method again.

The doily was cut from pink tissue paper using the paper snowflake cut-out method - except I rounded the corners instead of cutting points as you usually would when cutting a snowflake. I may make a video tutorial of it sometime. It’s one of the prettiest snowflake/doilies I’ve ever cut and I’m pretty proud of it~ It was a real hassle to put on the card though - first I used glue stick, then white craft glue to get the stubbornly not-sticking parts. It would be lovely to have spray adhesive, I think, but that's one of the pricier things I've never gotten around to buying.

The girl holding the heart was copied from an old tracing of a stamp I saw in a craft book years ago (this would work with any interesting images too - just copy with tracing paper, and transfer!). The little details were drawn using Artline Drawing System 0.1 pens, coloured in using a white Signo Choose pen, as well as various Gelly Roll pens - then cut out and put on using dimensional adhesive. 

The journaling box was hand drawn and cut from kraft paper, outlined in black and white, and the sentiment hand-written. It is also on dimensional adhesive.

Finally, flowers and butterflies punch-outs were used to accent the card (fill up space, more like).