Best Friends

     This card was sooo much fun to make.  It feels like forever since I've really sat down and created something just for the fun of it.  I had made a card of this style for the Fred, She Said blog hop and had several requests for the instructions (you can scroll down a couple of posts to find the tutorial) so I needed to make another one for some instructional pics.  No use letting the parts and pieces go to waste so this is what came out of them.
     Sadly this is not the only Lili of the Valley stamp I have that hadn't been inked yet.  I hope to put the rest of them to use very soon.  This one is called "Best Friends" and it was a dream to color, especially since it got stamped on a piece of the brand new pack of Copic Express-it blending card I just got.  I've been using Gina K and there is a huge difference.  The Copic paper was incredible to blend on.  I was worried at first because everything seemed so dark, but as it dried or soaked into the paper it looked fine.
     For my papers I used a combination of DCWV and the gorgeous GCD Studios Ella Blue stack.  Love that brown and blue combination.  The rose on the front of the envelope is my first try at a new style of rose made using the Retro Flower punches.  I was pleased at how it turned out for a first try and I'm sure they'll get better with practice.  I colored some white cardstock with a couple of the blue Copics I used on the image so the rose and little flowers would match the image and papers.  I also used my Copics on the pearls.

     I was very happy with the image except for the hair.  I haven't got the hair techniques down yet, but I had lots of fun anyway.
     I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley--spring
ABC Challenge--roses (there's the one I made and the DP paper has blue roses on it)
Tuesday Throwdown--florals
House of Gilli--ribbon and pearls
Sugar Creek Hollow--stitching

This is my third post for today so if you missed anything please scroll down.
Happy Thursday!


Supplies


Papers:  GCD Studios Ella Blue, DCWV Luxury, DCWV cardstock, Recollections, Georgia Pacific, Copic Express-it Blending card
Stamp:  Lili of the Valley "Best Friends"
Ink+:  Frayed Burlap Distress ink, Waterfall Stickles
Copics: 
             skin E000, E00, E11, R20
             hair E50, E53, E57
             clothing B91, B93, B95, B97, E41, E43, W1, W3
             wall E71, E74, E79
             flowers Y32
Tools:  Nestabilities Classi Scalloped Circles Large (S4-124) and Standard Circles Large (S4-114), Martha Stewart Vintage Floral edge punch and Frond punch, EK Success Scalloped Scallop edge punch and Retro Flower punches, sewing machine
Miscellaneous:  Martha Stewart ribbon, Jolee's and Recollection pearls