Happy Birthday Angie!

Today is my Magnolia-licious DT sister Angie's Birthday, and Mindy (another DT sis and Angie's good friend) came up with an awesome idea to pay a special little tribute to her! Angie has her own line of stamps called LIttle Darlings, and she just launched a brand new line called Cutie Pies! And they are indeed CAAA-UTE!!  So....Mindy supplied me with an image, and I made up this little card as a tribute to my friend, Angie! Happy Birthday girlfriend!  I hope it's the best year ever, and I wish you many fantastic years to come!  Now without any further ado, here is the card I created with one of her Cutie Pies!

Is he not sweeter than sweet could ever dream of being?? And he was so fun and easy to color! He's stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen White paper and then colored with Copic markers. I then cut him out with oval Nesties and machine stitched around it.  I used several Magnolia Doohickey dies on this one....the flowers, the lacy border,  and the small doilies placed behind the ovals. I also used the banner die from Whimsy, a button die from PTI, and the leaf swirl from Cheery Lynn Designs.  Now see what happens when I try and do a card quickly, I don't get to sit on it and let it digest. The nore I look at it, the more I'm thinking I should have given the flowers red buttons. What do you think?

Now I have a wee bit of advice for you....if you use a pearl pen on your card, make sure it's the last thing you do on it, no matter how long you think it will be before you pick it back up again. See that "hello friend" up there in the corner? Well......that wasn't planned. LOL! I had applied three pearls with my black pearl pen, and I like the way it looked to. Until I went to grab the card to add another flower on it and forgot I had wet pearls in the corner. Oh what a a mess! I had black pearls all over my hands! "Now what" what my first thought! I had no idea what I could put up there in that small space above the banner.  So I started looking through my sentiments and found this nice small one. Problem solved! Although I sure liked the looks of the black pearls better, the tag looks a whole lotter better than a smeared black mess does! LOL! And last but not least, I added one of my bows using May Arts black silk ribbon topped off with a teddy bear charm from Stamp and Create.

So that's it for me! Please be sure and stop by to see everyone else that's playing along...

Janiel
Ruby
Diana
Cabio
Sara
Patti Jo
Alberto
Angela
Suzanne
Barb
Mindy

Have a great day and hope to see you tomorrow for the new Kraftin' Kimmie challenge!  Hugs!

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