70th Birthday Wishes

Today I'm sharing my MIL's 70th b-day card.  Usually I send tennis cards, because she plays tennis, but this year I wanted something different and a different fold.

I went with a cute little girl.  The image is Doodle Garden Springtime wishes from MFT (which My Favorite Things no longer sells Doodle Garden stamps, who knew).  I even looked in the Doodle Garden shop and this image is not there, but she does have other cuties in her shop.

 For a different kind of fold, I went with the gate fold.  I found some instructions for this fold, but it was for a tiny card.  My image was much bigger, in fact, it was bigger than the tiny card.  So, by the third time (and lots of measuring), I custom my own gate fold to the size I needed, to fit the image that was already done.
I added three yellow flowers for the 3 flowers she had in her hand.  Lots of pearls were needed and a sentiment.  Using watercolor and regular pencils to color in my image, lots of time. I say LOTS of times, because the image is layered and that also meant LOTS of cutting.  Even though I stamped the image 7 times, sometimes only certain parts were colored and cutout.  The flowers, shoes, hair, bow, each layer of the dress, and sleeves are pieced on top of a bottom layer of the original image.

Here is the inside of the card.  I wanted to make sure everything was decorated.  The center was left opened to write a little something and the kids had plenty of room to write their names.

The image on this side is from Unity, Candles & Cake.

On this side I used MFT Birthday Sentiments and MFT die-cuts.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

i would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

• Inkspirational Challenges - #62 Designers Choice-Use Markers or Pencils (pencils - 2nd entry)
• Natalie & Amy - #23 Die Cuts & Flowers
• Scrapping4fun Challenge - #23 Something Girly
• Stempelgarten Challenge - #28 Paper Piecing 

clicking on image will take you to the DT call

stamps used: MFT DG Springtime Wishes, MFT Circus Spectular (front sentiment), MFT Birthday Sentiments, Unity Candles & Cake {wit & wisdom}

paper used: MFT Tangy Orange, Bazzill, SU black & dp

die-cut used: Spellbinders Marvelous Square

embellishments used: Martha Stewart pearls, Recollections bling on a roll, Flowers were a free gift from Unity