Butterfly Wishes

Good afternoon everyone!

It's my niece's 5th birthday party today, so I'm taking in the calm before the storm, in a couple of hours, there's going to be 17 hyperactive, sugared-up 5-year-olds legging it around the vicinity, so I won't get any peace! 

I have such a vivid memory of my own 5th birthday - my eldest sister (the mother of this birthday girl actually!) telling me to get dressed for my 5th birthday party, as I was running around the house in my knickers and vest causing havoc haha. Funny the things you remember right? And just like my mother used to be up til all hours cooking and baking and icing and decorating the night before, both Mummy AND Daddy of the Birthday Girl were up til all hours last night, making sure everything will be *just right* for their little darling's do :)

Anyway, enough of that :) I made this card a while ago for a friend to give his god-daughter for her 18th birthday, I had ZERO mojo when I needed to make this, so it literally took 7 hours to make. LOL. But I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :) I wanted it to be less "cute" and more "grown up" but still girly, so I think that worked out OK :) As per usual for my cards these days, I went frantage mad :)

Ingredients 

Image - Fairy Fae by Delicious Doodles

Papers - Wild Rose Studio Annabelle's Meadow

Flowers and blue ribbon - Wild Orchid Crafts

Pink pearl trim, White pearl trim, looped organza trim, charm, silver butterfly, brad - Ribbon Girl

Cheery Lynn French Pastry Die 

Memory Box Vivienne Butterfly Die

MS Butterfly Punch

JoyCrafts Alphabet Die (for the numbers)

Coloured with Promarkers

Shabby Pink Frantage

Blue Liquid Pearls

Glossy Accents

Stickles

A closeup of my flowers :)

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Ribbon Girls Challenge - Include a Number

Allsorts Challenge Blog - Butterflies

Bunny Zoe's Challenge - Bingo (Ribbon/Sparkle/Charms)

Crafty Ribbons Challenge - Anything Goes with Ribbon

Creative Inspirations - Favourite Colour Combo (pink and blue)

Live and Love Crafts Challenge - Photo Collage Inspiration (I chose the pretty pink and blue colours and flowers from the third one and the overall shabby chic look) 

Cute Card Thursday - Pretty In Pink

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog - You are my sunshine

Passion for Promarkers - Pink and Pearly

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking :)

Tags xx