A Gem of a Challenge - recipe

Hmm... well, so much for getting back yesterday with my second post... it got so late I decided to schedule it for this morning instead!  We 'popped' to Asda for a few bits - nearly 2hrs (and over £100) later, we got home and hubby announced he needed a card for his brother's birthday as he'd be seeing him tomorrow (which is now today... how confusing!), and did I have anything that would do?!  Obviously I didn't have anything suitable, so that was my evening gone!

Sooo, here's my DT card, finally, for A Gem of a Challenge, where Donna has chosen a recipe of 'lilac, lemon, 2 butterflies and a bow'.  Now you all probably know how I try to avoid recipe challenges... they're not my favourite generally!  But actually, once I got over the fact that I have hardly anything in lilac and lemon (which is quite amazing considering the amount of paper in my craft room), this one came together fairly easily...

Items Used

Card blank - on the edge scalloped - Craftwork Cards

Digi stamp - Princess Set - Pink Gem Designs

Colouring - promarkers & flexmarkers

Digi papers - Daisies, Micro Dots & Stripes - Pink Gem Designs

Memory Box Floral Vine die - MCH

Martha Stewart Royal Butterfly punch - MCH

Pearls - MeiFlower Pink Mix - MCH

Ribbon - The Ribbon Collection - MCH

Card Candy (bow centre) - Craftwork Cards

Sentiment stamp - Sentiment Tags - LOTV

Stickles in Diamond - MCH

Viva Decor Pearl Pen in Ice White - MCH

Please ignore my colouring, I made a proper fluff of the purples - I obviously don't use them often enough!  Apologies if I didn't get to visit your blog yesterday, I managed some commenting but ran out of time - it's now 1am and I'm just scheduling this now... sigh!  So I'll hopefully manage to visit more of you today.  Hope you all have a lovely day :o)