Shabby chic

I tried to cover several challenges at once with this pretty card, which is for my Mum to give to her cousin's teenage daughter. It should be good for Colour Create's challenge of using kraft, blue and white, with the option of texture, which there is plenty of! It was my first attempt at shabby chic for the Simon Says challenge, also Whiff of Joy's sketch which I flipped to fit my image.

And here it is!

I used 7 Gypsies papers, and the image is Willow from Whiff of Joy coloured with Copics - I really got into mixing colours for this! No distressing tool for me - I used an old emery board which worked perfectly (although my thumb-nail is definitely distressed too) and Versafine sepia ink. The stamp is one of the Floral Flourishes from Upsy Daisy Designs which I haven't used before, so that counts as my something new, and therefore I can enter it into the Charisma Cardz challenge as well! The lace is a scrap from my stash that I've had for years. Hopefully my Mum will think it fit to send to her young cousin.