My sister asked me to make a special retirement card made for the lovely school nurse she works with...my orders were...(I mean instructions lol)...she's a big Winnie the Pooh fan end of story!!
I didn't want to make anything to childish so I played about with things I cut with my craft robo...but they all got put to one side as I didn't think they fitted in with the idea in my head (not sure what that was really :-/)
I looked on the web at colouring pages and found loads of cute pooh images and it was difficult to choose one but decided on this image because I didn't think he looked more wistful than cutesy...
I think he looks deep in thought and what he is about to get up to...
Just like Nan will on her retirement I hope:-)
On to my card...
A little close up...
As I said the image was found on the web and there are hundreds about that you can resize, print and colour yourself...
I coloured Pooh with Promarkers...
The lovely background cottage is a Topper from the Country Companions Cd rom from Docrafts...
Its the first time I've printed and used anything from this cd (hang my head in shame)...
I just resized the topper and printed it out twice and decoupaged some of it....
love the quality of the resized print, its second to none...
Then added some glamour dust to the flowers to give it some sparkle and I think the effect is what I would call subtle...
The papers are all also printed from the cd...
Sentiment Banner is another download from Birds Cards this time I printed and cut myself to save bringing out my robo...
The butterflies are all from my stash with my sister adding her choice of the yellow and red butterfly when she came to collect card...just so she could say she made some of the card!!
Her comment was "now I know why you make the cards"...
I don't know what she meant but think it was something to do with the rest of the butterflies being softer colours??
Bling is from my stash which I added to the butterflies and along the banner, also did a swirl inside the easel but as I rubbish at taking photos you can only see a tiny part of it...
The sentiment is a download from Rainbow Echo Designs and can be found HERE at Whimsy Stamps...where there is a plethora of images to choose from...
Used the Martha Stewart Doily Lace Edge Punch and added some more bling...
Sister loved the card and I am going to enter it into the following challenges...
