Happy Birthday card using Chi Chi Memories 'Hello Girl'

I made another card with Chi Chi Memories 'Hello Girl' this time in the form of a birthday card, and using a more conventional hair colour!

Ingredients ;

coredinations cardstock in sky and pale blue, black onyx sparkle cardstock from AMD

black micron pen, white pigment gel pen, half pearls, stripy ribbon , black ribbon, red 'sew lovely ' papermania paper , black and white bexley black papermania paper 

chi chi memories 'hello girl' 

happy birthday stamp from forever friends 

2 label dies from sizzix sizzlets

8x8 square card base

we 'r' memory keepers crop-a-dile corner chomper

3D foam pads

spellbinders lacy circles

sizzix circles #2

AMD white 300 gsm stamping cardstock

silicone glue

anita's tacky glue

SU not quite navy ink pad

promarkers - sandstone, gold, mustard, pastel yellow and buttercup for hair

burgundy, crimson and cardinal for headband and shoes

true blue ,azure and sky blue for the dress, and black, cool grey 5 and 4 for tights

I layered the light blue cardstock on top of the black, leaving a couple of mm gap between card blank edge, black , and blue and cut two equal sized pieces of red paper to fit at both sides. for the central piece , I layered black cardstock again with the bexley black/white paper, and rounded the corners on the right hand side using the 1/4 inch corner chomper 

I then stamped the sentiment on to some white stamping cardstock, and cut it with the smaller of the two largest label dies , placed near the top as i was only using the top edge.

I then used the largest with the sky blue coredinations cardstock to layer behind it. this i glued slightly behind the middle section on the card 

I made a hand tied blue and adhered a black ribbon strip first to the bottom edge of the middle section. I glued the stripy bow onto this using silicone glue 

I cut out a sky blue circle using one of the spellbinders lacy circles, and a plain white circle to fit inside it. 

once the image was coloured, I fussy cut it and placed it onto the white inner circle, and added a couple of strokes of promarker pen around the feet to 'ground' the image.

I glued the image to the white circle and that in turn to the blue circle. I put 3d foam pads on the back of that one and adhered it to the card.

I finally used my micron and white gel pens to faux stitch around the edge panels, the sentiment and the circles the image was on, and added 3 half pears to the top left corner and the bottom right.

hope you like it, 

Rachel x

would like to enter in -

http://craftitudechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ bexley black and bow

http://creativecornerchallenges.blogspot.de/ (Ribbon - Rachel)

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ die cuts

http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.ca/2014/04/challenge-13birthday-cardsprojects.html

http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/challenge die cuts spots and faux stitched border

http://pumpkinspiceblog.blogspot.co.uk/ colouring

http://sendasmile4kidschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.totallygorjuss.blogspot.co.uk/