Give an "Inchie"

Good morning my fellow crafters and I hope you are well today.

The last fortnight has disappeared rather rapidly again, and there's a new new challenge starting today at Lexi's Creations. Our challenge for you this time is For a Friend.

Our sponsor for this challenge is the lovely Lexi from Fairy Dust Crafts who is offering our lucky winner 5 digital images from her store (you should pop over there and see the other goodies she has and, if you spend over £10.00 she offers free postage and packing too!). Lexi has, as usual, given us our free choice of image for this challenge. Here is the card I've made:

My card recipe is as follows:

• Base Card - made from Centura Pearl in Dark Chocolate  cut and folded to a 10.5cm square card.
• Backing Paper - is cream with a pearlised sheen to it. I got mine in a multi-pack of different papers and card.
• Image - This gorgeous scene is called  Butterflies and it is one of the talented Lexi's (Fairy Dust Crafts) creations - pop over to Lexi's store by clicking on the link ... I can assure you that you won't be disappointed! After colouring in the image, I cut it into 9 inch squares, and then distressed the edges of these using brown chalk and a damp cotton bud. I deliberately keep my colour scheme muted and used my Spectrum Noir Pens in the following colours:
• Flower - GB3, GB4, GB5, CG4
• Butterflies - CR11, GB5, EB7
• Grass - CG1, CG2
• Sky - Light Blue Chalk
• Outline - BG1
• Sentiment Tickets - from The Crafty Pad Designs. You can get Fabulous Friend  by clicking here. On the other ticket, I took the image into my word processing package. I then hid the original wording by covering it with a white text box and generated the Get Well Soon  message myself. I hope Debbie doesn't mind that I tweaked one of her tickets!

Head on over to Lexi's Creations and see what my creative team-mates have created For a Friend and then come back and share your creation with us! You've got until Saturday 21st July 2012 to link your cards up.

With a little help from the girls at Feline Playful I would like to enter this card for the following challenges:

• Challenge 28 - Friend at Aud Sentiments
• Challenge #16 - Anything Goes at Chocolate, Coffee and Cards
• Challenge 224 - Gardener's World at Cute Card Thursday
• Challenge #2 - Get Well Soon at Chalk 'n' Stock
• Challenge #4 - Winged Things at Fashionista Challenge
• Summertime at Incy Wincy Designs
• Challenge #34 - A Card for Someone Special at Addicted To Stamps
• Let's Keep It Clean and Simple at Just Some Lines
• PPA138 - A Colour Challenge (Daffodil Delight, Early Espresso & Cherry Cobbler) at Pals Paper Arts
• July Monthly Challenge - Inchies at Card Making World

Hugs, Helen x