And I've tied some twine string in a bow around the middle of the pin. The card I've used is a linen effect cream card and it is just lovely to use - from the Papermill online shop.
I think these will be going for sale on my website at some point. However I don't think I can part with them as I like them so much. So that means I won't use them either!
The papers are from Patti Picklicious and I've printed them onto 300gsm linen ivory card, rounded edges and lightly inked them too. The ribbon is from my stash as too the hat pin, beads, brad and heart charm.
Fortunately, as the card is in landscape, it holds up under the weight of the charm! I actually think I bought the charm in a pack of 6 from B&M Bargains but they are really study!
So, I have used, a quickie digital card by the lovely Kirsty Wiseman - really really easy to use - simply print it out, cut it up and stick it on! Everything you see, with exception to the ribbon, wire and birdies is from the download. The two little birdies are from the Polkadoodles Candy Doodles cd and I've simply added a little bit of glitter (well, a great big blob of glitter to be honest as it came out rather fast!) to their wings.
All the backing papers, including the cupcake embellishment are from a Kirsty Wiseman freebie via Crafts Beautiful a while ago, I've just lightly inked the edges and added a bit of doodling. I coloured the image firstly with watercolour paints and then added some depth with watercolour pencils.
The wings were glittered and the sentiment stamp is Anita's.
I've coloured Molli with watercolour pencils and she is lovely to colour too - really easy shapes and not too much detail.
Well, probably not strictly true as its not a download as such but from the Patti Picklicious cd. Download, digital - its all the same thing aint it?!!
Sorry for the washed out look of the first photo but the light was rubbish early on and I forgot to take another once the sun broke through.
All the elements - image, backing paper, embellishments and sentiment are all from the Patti Picklicious cd. The chandelier image I've layered onto black card to give it a bit more definition and have chalked the edges.
The sentiment has been cut from the titchy alphas that you can print out - I've not changed the sizing - they really are that small!
The embellishments are all cut from one of the backing sheets and I've simply cut out different parts of it and added a bit of glitter glue here and there.
The chandelier has been lightly chalked and again I've added some glitter glue, and as luck would have it, the black ink has bled into the glitter glue and turned it turquoise to match the rest of the card!
I've used a white gel pen to go round the edges and also inked them with brown and pink. The cupcake is also on the cd and I have simply added it to a thin strip of acetate, coloured it with watercolour pencils, inked and chalked it and then finally glitter glued it! And then layered it onto some of the little spotty paper.
Card candy (which matched very perfectly!) from Craftwork Cards.
And just look what I bought on Saturday.... the Patti Picklicious cd by Kirsty Wiseman! She was demo-ing at the Craft Range in Burnley - literally 10 mins up the M65 for me, and it just seemed rude not to go along and say hello! I did take the boys with me - both I had to wake up in the car (not that they find crafting boring, but they were tired the poor little lambs) so they were not best pleased about that, but Samuel was poorly (he'd parted with his juice in the carpark earlier) and was not wanting me to stop and chat to a woman with loads of cards on the table and chat about sausage dogs. Jacob was a bit more amenable but pretended to be shy. Although he did listen to the conversation as he kept asking to go back and see Kirsty and look at her sausage dog (she showed him a pic of Eddy on her pc)....
I did think about making a round card, but then I wondered how it would stand up! As that option gave me too much to think about, I decided to keep the square shaped card (rounded the edges) and went for the elements within the card to be round. Much more simple! The papers are the freebie Patti Picklicious downloads from Kirsty Wiseman - I do like these bright colours and wanted to use them again! 
All the papers including sentiment (I added the 50 on) are from the download with the ric rac ribbon from my stash.
A beautiful little triangular box with a very cute birdy image on it (look at the ribbon!) and a lovely folder - all matching colours!
And just look what was inside the box!! Needless to say, it was ribboned back up again sharpish, before any little monsters realise what is inside and scoff the lot! That goes for the big Daddy monster too!
Then I had this to open:
Again I've used the fab free papers from Kirsty Wiseman from her new Patti Picklicious range - these papers are the other half to these. See how I don't like to waste ANYTHING! The flower is a template that I drew myself and I've layered the two circles onto contrasting papers for a bit of a lift.
All the edges have been inked with my trusty fading black ink pad and a line doodled around the edge. The black gem is Club Green.
And I've added a dab of gold glitter glue on the candle. A very simple but striking card!
And I really was not sure what I was going to do. And then I had a quick look at Kirsty Wiseman's new blog for her new Patti Picklicious Range (Jozza is a member of her design team - how fab is that?!) When lo and behold, there was a time limited freebie on offer! And what very fab colours! So I downloaded and printed both of the papers off and this is what I created that very night!
