Grow old with me!

First off, here's wishing Lulupu a very happy first birthday! I decided to enter myself in the Lulupu Challenge #10. It's been on my mind since the day I saw the challenge. The catch is that you have to take inspiration from one of their DT members and any one of their creations. Now that's tough as: 1) the DT members are extremely talented and 2) you don't want to be a copy cat.

The card I chose as inspiration is by Ujjwal. I absolutely love this card and fell in love with it the moment I saw it and have been a follower of her blog ever since! The card that inspired me is this one:

and what I've come up with is this:

I die cut the flower  and leaf and stamped over it with the coordinating stamp set from PPRS-Hibiscus, then coloured it in using Staedtler Luna colour pencils. I misted it with plain water (since the pencils are watercolour pencils it created a nice effect) and let it dry.

I embossed a plain black cardstock using the Polka Dots embossing folder from Cuttlebug. For the base I chose a plain white cardstock and scored it to create lines at the top and bottom. I layered a white paper doily and then the black cardstock and stuck the flower and leaf in place. I added a beautiful sentiment from Fiskars Clear Stamps (Wedding) and then some pearls in colours reflective of the other colours in the card.

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