My Granny’s 80th birthday is soon and for her card I was inspired by two blog challenges. The first one is from A Spoon Full of Sugar and  it is called “Doodle Doo“. The second one is from Everybody Art Challenge and is named “Tag“.

The following card is the result of both:

Such a challenge is really handy for forming a first idea of a card. From there on the imagination just flows.

Especially the doodling was a lot of fun and easier than I expected. I guess I will use it more often from now on.

Here comes a little description of the card.
Material:

• white square card
• purple cardstock
• light-purple wallpaper or other structured paper
• patterned paper
• white gel pen
• Cuttlebug alphabet or similar die-cut numbers
• purple pen
• purple chalk
• narrow and broad purple ribbon
• purple eyelet
• border stamp
• white ink, best is StazOn
• purple half-pearls

Cut the numbers from the purple cardstock using the Cuttlebug. Draw a wavy line onto them with the white gel pen. Cut a tag from the patterned paper, draw some faux stitches with the purple pen and chalk the border. Set the eyelet on the top of the tag and attach the narrow ribbon to it. Glue the numbers to the tag.

Cut a square from the cardstock and the wallpaper with each one 1cm smaller than the other. Attach the wallpaper square to the cardstock one and glue the broad ribbon over the lower third of both. Best is to fasten the ribbon ends on the back with tape. Stamp the border with white ink onto the ribbon. The easiest are acrylic stamps especially if the stamp is shorter than the ribbon. Attach the whole thing to the white card.

Doodle some flowers onto another piece of cardstock and cut them out. Attach tag and flowers with foam pads on the card. Then decorate the border of the purple cardstock with doodles. At last glue some half-pearls on the lower edge of the wallpaper.