Dreamy News Everyone!

Well, I think I deserve a place in the 'Guiness Book of Records' this week, for holding my breath the longest time humanly possible - two whole weeks!  Yup, that's right, I've been busting to tell you all but I've had to keep a secret and, finally, I can let you all know ....

I'M OFFICIALLY A FULL-TIME MEMBER OF MO'S DREAM TEAM!!!!!

Did you hear that?  I'M A 'DREAM GIRL'!!!

I'm so excited to have been chosen and (puts hand on heart):

"I promise to do my best to colour all Mo's images beautifully and to make them into the loveliest projects I possibly can, always."

So, on with today's post, which just happens to be my entry for Mo's Challenge this week, which is a card recipe:

1 ribbon, 2 buttons/brads and 3 designer papers.

Here she is:

Image: Mo's Digital Pencil, 'Soaking Up The Joy'

Papers: October Afternoon

Tools: Scalloped Circle Large Nestabilities

The look of sheer bliss on this lovely face is just how I'm feeling now - like the sun is shining on me and I'm all warm and gooey inside! It's a delightful image.

I wondered how I was going to incorporate three designer papers into my card this week.  I didn't really want to use blocks of colour, i.e. rectangles or squares, but I was having a bit of difficulty working out what I did want to do.  Then I had a sandwich on a side plate and thought 'that's it! I'll use curves!'.  (Don't things occur to us crafters at the weirdest times?)

I chose the three papers, popping some lovely orange in there for contrast and to pick up the orange in the flower centres on the background paper and in the flowers I had coloured around the image.  This was really one of those cards that made itself, once I had decided what I wanted to do with it - it just all fell easily into place. 

My largest circle die didn't quite fit the image and I didn't want to cut 'out of the box' on this one, so I ended up cutting a scalloped circle instead. Only problem with that is that it made it difficult to mat the image so I cut another scalloped circle out of dark orange and popped this underneath, turning it slightly so that the orange scallops showed between the white ones.  At least I managed to get some colour behind the image this way.

A little ribbon, a couple of buttons and there she was - all bright and beautiful.

So, she's no longer my final GDT card, only the first of many I shall look forward to creating for the Dream Team.  I can't thank Mo and the girls enough for this amazing opportunity!

Happy crafting.

xx