For Charlotte

For Charlotte.... A new baby in our midst. My best friend is now a grandma and this is the card I made for the lucky new parents.

 Firstly I selected a background print that I wanted to be mainly pink. This pretty background paper is from Kaiser craft "Sweet Nothings" pad and was perfect with the flowers and butterflies on it. That was the inspiration for the rest of the card.
I ripped a piece of cardboard to the size I wanted and used this as the base  adding a bit of gesso to take away the "brownness' of the card and let this dry. I cut out a doily using a Coutour Creations doily "Autumn Reflections". This was then lightly sponged with one of the new Tim Holts Distress Inks colours called "Pinked Raspberry".

 A Birdcage was cut out using Spellbinders "Bird Sanctury" shapeability die and I glued lace to the top of the frame and also placed lace along the bottom of the cage  underneath the cut out so that there is a hit of lace showing there also.
I played around with the placement of the flowers from my stash. A piece of the beady string thingee was interlaced around the cage and through the flowers . I thought this added a bit more femininity to the card.
Little butterflies using  a Cherry Lyn design dye "Exotic Butterfly" small were used and I cut out two of the three butterflies, and  placed little gems in the middle to add a bit of prettiness to them. Pearls were added to the cage.

The words were cut using the Cricut "Graphically Speaking" cartridge. I sprayed the words with Tattered Angels "Glimmer mist-Silver" to add a bit of sparkle and dimension to the words.
"Welcome" (Stampin up) was stamped onto a piece of card, the edges distressed with a dusting of ink and attached using puff dots.