It's my blogging friend Anne's birthday today and I know she has received her card so I'm free to share it here now without spoiling the surprise. I made her card using this week's sketch from Waltzingmouse as my starting point http://waltzingmousesketchchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/challenge-125november-24-2012.html
I stamped the Hyacinth from Vintage Garden Flowers onto white cardstock and a cut with a round die after painting with Luminarte shimmer paints. The background is actually the packaing from some Verve stamps and was just too pretty to end up in the bin. I embossed a sentiment from Compact Sentiments in purple onto this. I cut some ribbons from purple card and stamped them with a darker purple ink using the lace border from French Country which is just about visible in the photo if you make it bigger. I added a darker purple strip across with some light purple gems to finish.