Some cards for a change

This is the birthday card for my friend Avril, whose birthday is on 1st April (hence Avril!). I usually do a doggie card for her (she is the owner of the very lovely Westie, William), but I wanted to make something girly and a bit shabby chic. This also coincided nicely with the challenge to use your new stash on Just Bex, the black and white papers I got at Lakeland have only just been opened and the blooms are pretty new too.

You can see, however, that I couldn't resist a bit of dog-centricity as I hadn't used my Sugar Nellie 'wee dug' on a card yet, it came from Funky Kits. The background stamp is Plaid by Hero Arts and the paper behind it and corner element are digi-scrap stuff from NikkiL's Paws kit over on Digital Craft Cottage - so a bit of hybridism going on here. Now I know that Joanne (Angelnorth) thinks I am a nutty dog woman without her own dog, so I thought I would add to this reputation - this card is FROM William to Avril and so is the little brooch below.

I made this using white shrink plastic and the Waggy Westie stamp from Little Claire. Coloured with watercolour pencils (not watered though) and the pin stuck on with silicon glue. The background to the photo is another paper from the Paws kit mentioned above.