Bit different for me!

Look, I've gone all distressed and vintage, and I wasn't forced to do it for a challenge either lol... My regular visitors will think they've come to the wrong blog!

This is a large 8" square card for my Auntie and Uncle's 25th wedding anniversary, which is tomorrow.  I knew I wanted to use this photo that my mum gave me to use, but I was struggling for ideas a bit... then I noticed Allsorts had a 'you've been framed' challenge and finally the cogs started whirring!

So... I cut a nestie circle out of the centre of a square of GCD Studio 'ella blue' paper and used that to 'frame' the photo.  Everything, including the blank card, has been well inked - very unlike me!  The flowers started off white and have been part coloured with promarkers, then sprayed with gold 'spray & sparkle' and then spritzed with bronze cosmic shimmer spray.  I curled the wires that were attached to the flowers instead of cutting them off as I usually do, added some pearl pins and a LOTV sentiment.

The inside is also decorated and I made a matching box too, but the photos are rubbish so I might add more pics tomorrow if I can get better ones!  So many of my lovely Ella Blue papers went into making this card... I think it might be the first paper pad I ever manage to fully use up lol.

I'm entering my card for the following challenges:

• Allsorts Challenge - you've been framed
• Dream Valley - distressing
• Simply Create - time to distress
• Little Claire - wedding/ anniversary (hello old teamies!!!)

We're being brave (or stupid!) and taking Dex to the cinema for the first time tomorrow, seeing the Smurfs... not convinced he'll sit still for long enough so we'll probably end up only seeing half of it.  Still, I'm not that bothered about the film so I don't suppose it matters lol.  He seems very excited about the popcorn!  Right, off to squeeze in some commenting as I'm very behind as usual...