Thursday 1 October 2015

Love from Pig

Hello - Thought I would do a quick post for this card that I made recently for the Boyf's birthday.
His pet name for me is Pig (in an affection way like Babe the pig in the film - not in the fat greedy way??! Although I do like to trough down on cake and chocolate!)

This image was perfect for his card and is called Birthday Pig with Balloon from Gerda Steiner Designs. This image was free and there are several others that are on offer also but they are all such lovely crisp images - I know I am going to become a regular customer!

The striped background paper is from My Minds Eye - Black & Grey necessities and the blue spot is washi tape from Queen & co. I hand cut a tag from Kraft card and tied some black ribbon through the punched hole. After I had coloured the image I added some glaze to the balloon and sprinkled some cosmic shimmer glitter into it. I then used 3D foam to attach the image to the tag and used Peels off & Doodlebug letters to create the sentiment. I also added an enamel Heart from Hobbycraft and a few co-ordinating enamel dots.

I coloured Pig in with Baby pink, Cocktail pink & Salmon pink pro/flexmarkers.
I used Powder blue, Sky & Azure on the balloon and Turquoise, lime & canary on his hat.
I also used a little warm grey to add some shading.

It's a simple card but really please with how effective it has turned out and will def be using more of these fab images.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges -

Just us girls - photo inspiration - black stripes
Tuesday Throwdown - CAS 

15 comments:

  1. Sweet birthday card! Thanks for joining the Craft-Dee BowZ October Challenge, "Anything goes and include a handmade bow".

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  2. Super cute card! Love the From Pig part! Thanks for joining us over at Just Us Girls this week and hope to see you in our gallery again!

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  3. Lilobet, this is gorgeous, almost total cuteness overload and I love your clever and funny 'from pig' detail.
    Sue...xxx

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  4. He looks so great. Love how you coloured him.
    Thanks for playing with us at Craft your Passion.
    Good luck, xxx Michelle (DT)

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  5. This card is so beautiful! I love the design and colors and the little piggy is just so cute! I had to have it too, thanks! Thanks for joining us at Craft Your Passion. Hope to see you again on the next challenge! Good luck!!!

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    1. Ha! Addictive little images! Thanks Patricia x

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  6. Adorable kids birthday card. Love the layout and the CAS design. Thanks for sharing it with us at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge. Good luck. Debi TT DT

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  7. What a cute card!!

    Thank you for playing along with us at Di's Digi Challenge, we have a brand new challenge open right now, so I hope you will play along!

    Hugs,
    Kelly

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