My sweet little niece Lily is celebrating her 5th birthday today. I've never see a child quite like her, especially when it comes to animals. This little farm girl is such a natural when it comes to loving and communicating with all of them. She's been known to cuddle with goats, sheep, dogs, chickens and most of all her kitties. When Lily steps out her front door she usually has a trail of animals behind her. She definitely has a unique gift and a beautiful heart.
Since she lives so far away and I couldn't make her a special cake to celebrate, I decided to make her a very special card instead. Using another one of those adorable stamps by WPlus9 (whom I think must have used Lily as their model) I tried to make a pretty outdoor, summery scene. This is just Lily to me. Little blonde ringlets, pretty little dress, boots to play in the mud and a cuddly little kittie in her arms.
I used a diecut border to stencil the clouds and little hill in the background with distress inks. I used Kuretake waterbrush markers to color the images and stamped a sweet sentiment from a My Favorite Things stamp set.
Then for the inside I used some ghost diecut numbers cascading from the top, representing years past. I wanted the inside to be fun and cheerful like the outside so I used coordinating colors and a cute banner across the top.
Happy Birthday Silly Lily! You're one of a kind and Aunt Lisa loves you!! XXXOOO!
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