Friday, March 27, 2009

Stella's Best Wishes

It's time I gave Stella a little love, so I went to my Stamping Bella collection (yes, it really IS a collection...sigh) and pulled out Stella Needs a Prezzie. For some reason, I love colouring her hair purple and giving her red lips, so I looked for a paper to match those colours and found this one in my stash...it's the Feeling Groovy line from My Mind's Eye. The layout for this card is from this week's sketch on Splitcoast, SC221. 

Stella is stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured with copics. Her dress is paper pieced and I added some shimmer to the image with my Stardust gelly roll pen...love that thing! All the papers I used on this card (except the black) are from the Feeling Groovy collection. I decided to stitch around all the layers for a little interest. I love sewing on cards...would NEVER sew fabric or hem pants or anything like that, but I LOVE sewing paper. Weird, eh!  :)

The sentiment, Best Wishes, is also from Stamping Bella. The finishing touch is a few carefully placed Bella Baubles. Because the baubles are kind of transparent, I didn't want the edges of a glue dot to show through, so I used some Micro Dots instead. 
If you don't already have micro dots, you NEED them! They're AH-mazing! Perfect for anything little you want to adhere, and they're strong too! 

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

9 comments:

Cathy said...

Great card, Karen. This sketch totally defeated me, but you rocked it!

Jenn said...

So stinkin' adorable! Love these colors and your stitching is perfect! :)

Kim said...

You right, I do NEED micro dots - they are darling and so is your card! Too cute and I love the purple hair!!

Kim said...

Call me a dork...I thought the Bella Baubles were called Micro Dots. Yeah...I need more coffee! LOL! What I need are Bella Baubles!

Janet said...

fab card:) i think her mumu is the best ;) lol
ummmm WWKD?????

Ruby said...

LOVE your card Karen. I think her hair looks fab purple and looks great with those papers!! So I need micro dots now, do I? First Copics, now dots!! Oh dear girl you cost me a fortune!!! lol ;o)

Leslie said...

Great card - love the papers and Stella's dress is fab!

Debbie Pamment said...

What a fun card!! Just wonderful..
xXx

Emily said...

I love this card Karen! That "Stella Needs a Prezzie" is a stitch! Your choice of paper is perfect and who doesn't like purple hair and red lipstick:)!