Purrrfect Birthday Card

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you my first card  made for A Perfect Time To Craft Design Team. I am over the moon and so proud to be apart of this amazing team with such wonderful talented designers.
The image chosen this month is adorable kitten. This image was simply stunning, so cute and from the wonderful sponsor at Charlies stamps
Charlie creates such beautiful designs and it's definitely worth checking out her store. You can also find her in these places too
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Our second sponsor for this month is Bugaboo Stamps and you can find them here
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I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Through the craft room door challenge - anything goes challenge 30th June - Through the craft room door -30/06
• Arty Divas - Arty Divas #25 anything goes challenge
• Love to craft challenge blog Love to craft challenge blog - anything goes
• World wide open design team challenge blog - World wide open design team challenge blog #6
• Colour crazy craft challenge - Colour crazy craft challenge #week 25 - anything goes
• A bit more time to craft challenge blog - A bit more time to craft challenge blog
• A bit more time to craft extra challenge A bit more time to craft extra challenge
• Morgan's art world challenge blog - Morgan's art world
• Classic design challenge blog - Classic design challenge blog #7 July
• Craft-dee bowZ - Craft-Dee BowZ July challenge
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Crafty sentiments anything goes challenge
• Lemon shortbread Challenge blog - Lemon shortbread challenge blog #123 anything goes
• Tuesday throwdown - Tuesday throwdown #460 anything goes

Please be sure to check out A Perfect Time To Craft challenge blog enter the challenge with your fabulous makes to be in with a chance of winning. The prizes consist of sponsor images, certificates and badges, as always the theme is - Anything goes #7 - 2020

And finally here is my inspiration contribution for this month.... please see all instructions and products used to create this card below:

•  For this card I first started with the main Image from Charlie's stamps adorable kitten, I printed this off on my Brother laser printer and I used alcohol markers to colour my design so I could then match it with the papers I wanted to use. (Please see list of colours used below in product details)
• For the base card I used a white 7x7 card blank 300gsm, I've then added lots of mats and layers to create a backdrop for this image, starting at the bottom I have a piece of watercolour washes paper in blue, then a holographic mirror card, next is a white mat which I have gone around the edge with a glue pen and added some iridescent glitter to, then I have a blue mat.
• For the geometric background I have stamped the background stamp onto 5x5 piece of card stock from the watercolour paper pad, the same one as in the background mats and layers. I stamped the image then I have heat embossed using a silver embossing powder, and backed this onto a piece of holographic mirror card. Before adhering all these layers to the card I have wrapped around a blue piece of ribbon across the middle and securing to the back of all the layers then glued the layers to the base card using wet glue.
• The next thing I have done is create a frame for my image, to do this I have used dies. First I took some white card stock and a fancy nesting die, I've cut the base and the fancy shape both in white card stock and layered them together. To create the circle frame around the image I have used my scalloped circle dies in two different sizes and white card stock to create a frame, once cut I have then run the frame through my die cutting machine with an embossing folder, I added the frame over the image with some foam pads and added all the layers to the centre of the card with foam pads too.
• For the sentiments, 'I hope your day is..... PURRRFECT' was simply created of Microsoft Word and printed out, cut into strips and added to the card using foam pads.
• For the embellishments on this card I have first created a paper flower I have used the same watercolour washes pad and stamped the flower image and heat embossed in silver embossing powder, I have repeated this three times so I have three flower images, I've fussy cut them out then shaped them slightly with my tweezers and layered them together using 3D gel and added a crystal to the centre of the flower.
• For the bow I have wrapped blue tissue paper around a piece of craft wire then formed the wire into the shape of a bow. I added the bow to the right hand side of the image and glued the flower over the top using 3D gel to fix.
• The last thing I have done to complete this card was add some self adhesive gems to the geometric background. 

Products used:

• Charlie's stamps - Adorable kitten available here: Charlies stamps
• Water colour washes designer paper pad from Chloe's creative cards
• Holographic mirror card from Dovecraft essentials
• White Pearlescent card from Chloe's creative cards
• Glitter is Sparkleicious Crystalina from Chloe's creative cards
• Cornflower blue card from Hunkydory 
• Geometric background stamp and flower stamp both from Chloe's creative cards
• Metallic silver super fine embossing powder from Wow!
• Sue Wilson, Creative Expressions Seville die
• X-Cut die for Scalloped frame
• Herringbone embossing folder by Crafters Companion
• All other embellishments were unbranded purchased from Amazon UK
• Colours used for the image were Chameleon colour tone pens in the following colours -
CG8 - Cool Grey

YO3 - Warm Sunset
RD4 - Crimson Red
PK3 - Bubble-gum Pink
OR4 - Seville Meadow
And Pro marker in the colour Pastel Blue 

Thank you very much for taking the time to visit my blog, If you like this card please feel free to follow or leave a comment, I will be posting frequent handmade card inspiration.

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