A Perfect Reminder

Hello and hello and hello!

I've been working away happily in my craft room these past few days, aimlessly but happily.  I was browsing around the sale at MelJen's Designs and just absolutely fell in love with the Divas and I picked one out to practice my shading.  Every time I walked into my craft room and saw her sitting on the table, she brought a smile to my face so I decided I wanted to keep her and planned to make myself a card.  That card turned into a wall hanging LOL.  But oh my, does she look ever so pretty hanging above my craft table.

I used a section of an old cardboard display board as the base.  The paper used for the flowers and butterflies is linen paper that I sponged on Barn Door and Victorian Velvet distress inks and water splattered it before running the dies through.  For the red flowers I used two of each size of the Cherry Blossom die from Cheery Lynn and shaped them to my liking.  I just love these Cheery Lynn flower dies- they are so versatile.  I already have my eye on some more of those!

The two sentiment panels were fussy cut from the My Mind's Eye papers I used.  I added the words "You are" in turquoise Stickles... sometimes you just need a reminder that you are perfect the way you are :)  The beaded heart I made with Swarovski crystals and 22 gauge wire I had sitting around from my jewelry making days (7 years ago, ha!).  Likewise with the hat pins.  I framed the image panel with red lace ribbon and added some blue ribbon that I rescued from a Christmas present to frame the whole thing.  The white ribbon used to hang it was also rescued from a Christmas present.

How about some close ups?

Here is one of the Diva herself

Some of the flowers

The hat pins
 

The crystal heart

And here she is hanging on my wall :)

Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting with me!  Hope you have a glorious weekend!!

Challenges:

Meljen's Designs - Love is in the air
Forever Friends - Anything goes
Dream Valley - Ribbon and bling 3/8/13
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Handmade embellishments (crystal heart, hat pins)
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything goes 3/1/13
Jenn's Digi Stamps - Ribbons and lace

Glitter and Sparkle - Anything but a card
QKR Stampede - Anything goes
Party Time Tuesdays - 3 and 3 (3 butterflies)
Pin and Tack - Anything goes  03/1/13
DL Art - Anything goes

Products/details:

Size:  8 x 8

Papers:  My Mind's Eye- Lost and Found (and I think Lost and Found Two)
Cheery Lynn Dies:  Cherry Blossom, Cutie Fringe 4, Oval Stackers XM, Mini Dimensional Butterflies  Spellbinder's Dies:  Foliage 2
Stamp:  Diva from Meljen's Designs
Ink:  Barn Door and Victorian Velvet distress inks, turquoise Stickles

Embellishments:  Swarovski Crystals from artbeads.com, red lace ribbon from The Paper Studio, blue and white ribbon from stash