Spring Themed Friend Card

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post to share this card I made for my Mum to give to her best friend. They have been friends for 30 years hence the little 30 in the sun! 

I started out by cutting a shaped rectanged from a blue piece of card on my Cricut. I then cut a frame from cream cardstock that was the same size as the blue layer. The last thing I cut was my grass using some green cardstock. I used the Plantain Schoolbook cartridge for all three pieces.
I started out with my cut piece of Blue cardstock, I layered the grass onto the bottom and trimmed around the edges so it was flush to the blue cardstock. Next I adhered my cream frame over the top to hide the edges of the grass.
I had some die cut flower toppers in my stash so I used them up on this card. I thought the greens were a pretty close match. Next I adhered a butterfly topper that I also found in my stash. Once I had adhered it I thought it looked too plane so I got out my wire and beads to made a body and antenna for it.
I freehand cut a sun from some light yellow cardstock and then punched a circle from some darker yellow cardstock for the centre. I adhered the two pieces together and added a small 30 to the sunshine using gold peel offs. I adhered my sun to the top left corner of my panel using dimentional foam adhesive to finish off my panel.
I used a white cardbase and stamped my Friend greeting directly onto it using Encore Gold Metallic Ink. I added two pink rhinestones to either side of the sentiment to finish it off.
I adhered my panel to the card to finish the card.

I am going to be entering this card into a few challenges:
Addicted to CAS Friend Challenge
Addicted to Stamps and More CAS Challenge
Allsorts Challenge Spring Has Sprung Challenge 
Crafty Creations Challenges Flowers or Fairies Challenge
Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything Goes Challenge

I hope you have enjoyed stopping by my blog today, I hope you will visit again soon!

Until next time,
Lucy x

Supplies: Cricut, Plantain Schoolbook cartridge, Hero Arts Thank you for being my friend stamp set, Wire, Beads, Rhinestones, Die cut toppers, Circle punch, Gold peel offs, Encore Metallic Gold Ink, Cardstock.