Lili of the Valley: Cuddly Teddies card topper girl's birthday card

Hi blogging friends  

With so much sickness going on in my household (yep, I now have the dreaded 'lurgy' too) and in need of a quick card for my soon-to-be 4 year old niece's birthday, I thought I would make a card using one of my Lili of the Valley (UK) diecut card toppers.  I have had these toppers for a while and forgot I had them (you know how it is LOL!).  When I originally bought the topper which I used on my card, the A4 sheet had the same picture but in different sizes, but they are now sold slightly differently by LOTV and the A4 sheets have 6 different images all the same size.  This teddy is now on the Cuddly Teddies DC007 sheet.

My Prima "Sparkling Spring" 6" x 6" paper pad matched the image perfectly (don't you love it when that happens?!!). I was having a ball making this card as everything I reached for just went together like a match made in heaven - which is much nicer than fiddling around trying to find the right colour ribbon, cardstock etc.  It was like all the planets were in alignment or something and I tell ya, it made it so much quicker even for a s-l-o-w cardmaker like myself.

All I needed to do was stamp the sentiment (also by LOTV) - no colouring other than the flowers on the sentiment which I coloured with some Prisma pencils.  I added some Kindyglitz Crystalina to the flower centres on the sentiment and most of the flower centres on the image.

After I added the green scalloped circle to the sentiment, it looked a little lost on the card, so I diecut a red scalloped circle and glued that underneath to just add a bit more colour without making the sentiment panel any bigger.

Here is a wee close-up of the image - isn't it cute and adorable and make you go "awwww"?!!  I am nuts about teddy bears as you can well see LOL!!

 

The sentiment panel and the main image are popped up on dimensionals.  The bow was attached in 2 different elements and the bow itself was made with my Bow Easy.

See the button?  It is old shop stock I inherited from my parent's Wool and Haberdashery shop and is 35 years old!  All I had to do was cut off the shank with a pair of pliers then glue it onto the bow centre.  Here is another wee close-up.  Doesn't it just match the image and designer papers so amazingly well {happy sigh.....}?

Not sure if you can tell, but on the bottom panel, I added a Scor-Pal line just above the punched green cardstock border; I find it easier to get the designer paper straight when lining it up with the Scor-Pal line rather than the punched border.  I am usually pretty terrible at lining things up straight so I need all the help I can get LOL!!

Challenges:

I am entering my card in the following challenges:

Papertake Weekly Challenge:  Getting Cute  - Anything goes as long as it’s CUTE and has the  ‘awwww’  factor.   I think my teddy bear fits the bill as being cute IMHO.

Allsorts Challenge Blog:  Week 112 - Free and Easy July  -  Anything goes

Well, that's about it from me.  Thanks for stopping by!

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Jocelyn

Card Recipe:

Stamps:  Lili of the Valley - For you circular sentiments - S213

Ink:  Versafine Onyx black

Designer paper:  Prima 'Sparkling Spring' #842178 6" x 6" pad

Accessories:  LOTV A4 diecut sheet:  Cuddly Teddies DC007, Cuttlebug, Spellbinder Circle and Scalloped Circle Nestabilities, yellow and red Prismacolor pencil, green gingham ribbon, Bow Easy, Kindyglitz Crystalina, dimensionals, button, Scor-Pal, Cardstock:  soft red, pale green, white

Punches:  Martha Stewart Pinking Scallop