Birthday Carousel

Flower Soft, now a member company at SCS, is hosting a challenge today, "Birthday Wishes." I wanted to use this adorable Lizzie Anne Designs carousel horse (Treasured Trinkets) to make a really girlie birthday card. It started out quite clean and simple, but then I kept adding little details until it was quite a bit busier and totally blingy!

The horse was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink once on the card base, then twice on cardstock scraps, colored with Copic markers, cut out and popped up for dimension.  I was envisioning those beautiful parade horses all decked out in floral finery (remember, we lived in Hawaii the first four years we were married, so we got to see the beautiful pa'u riders in person!), and some Sweet Pea Flower Soft was perfect to achieve that effect!  I added a green satin bow and lots of pink bling as a finishing touch.

I'm always taking cards to share with the girls in my Bible study class, and today my friend Jennifer just had to have this one!  I tried to get her to just take it, but she wouldn't hear of it...she's always encouraging me to sell my cards!  Maybe I should open an Etsy shop.  I am contemplating doing it!  Anybody have any recommendations or words of wisdom for me?!