Bday card for the Monkey and Challenges!

Hello Everyone thanks for coming by.  This is a birthday card for my daughter Sarah a.k.a. (The Monkey). She is a sophomore in college and after 12 years of catholic school, came home with a pair of wings tat-ewed on her shoulder blades.  One on each side, up to this point in her life she didn't even have her ears pierced! When the weather turned warm she had forgotten I didn't know about it, came home from work wearing a tank top and low and behold, I gasped and thought WTF! (Please do not be offended, I say with a 90 % certainty that if your 20 year old daughter came home with wings tat-ewed on her back you would also say WTF, there is no other phrase that works). I prayed it was henna...it wasn't.  *sigh* so this image is for her. This is one of Kenny K's images Devilish Donna I love this image!

I made my own glimmer mist and sprayed it on the flowers, I am happy with how it turned out, the flowers were white before I sprayed them.  The flower centers are buttons.  The dew drops on top of the buttons I colored as well with glimmer mist (note to self and my tip for Tip Top Tuesday, the shimmery stuff (pearl ex) rubs off of plastic, color stays, no more pearl ex on dew drops) The dew drops were clear from Michael's. 

I know this is long...stay with me.  So I have seen all these fancy bling flourishes and I have a ton of rhinestones (another sad story) so I thought "Hey, I can make one of those out of my rhinestones." So I bought a stencil by Pebbles, it says it's for chalk..heh.  So I placed it on the card, strategically placed dots of glue and wa-la.  Well it is my first attempt, don't turn on me lol.  I need smaller rhinestones I suppose and I need to not bunch them up but I have not given up. This is one picture of a plastic container of rhinestones, I have THREE

I hope I get better with practice because I have a LOT of rhinestones to use LOL.  If you have stayed with me this long thanks and I have entered my card in the following challenges:

1. Kenny K's Challenge-Anything Goes
2. Stamp Scrap and Doodle-Buttons
3. Secret Crafter-Anything that flies
4. Tip Top Tuesday-Anything Goes
5. Fairy Knoll Friday-Anything Goes
6. Totally Papercrafts-Bling it on
7. Alphabet Challenge-A for Angels and Fairies
8. The TownScrapper -Some Buttons
9. The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge-Anything Goes
10. Southern Girls-Glitter it Up
11. Glitterbabe's Challenge-Anything Goes
12. Digi Doodle Shops Best-Anything Goes
13. Simon Says-Punches
14. Paper Pretties-Square Card
15. Paper Players-Anything Goes
16. Gingerloft-Buttons
17. Cowgirls Sunday-Bling it on
18. Aly's Sunday Challenge-Distressed
19. Creative Inspirations-Glitter, Glamour, Girlie
20. One Stop Craft Challenge Blog-Anything Goes
21. Wee Memories-Anything Goes
22. Papertake Weekly-Sparkly and Bright
23. Craft Your Passion-Add Glitter and Sparkles
24. 4 Crafty Chicks-Die cuts and punches
25. A Spoon Full of Sugar-Die cuts and punches
26. Creative Card Crew-Punches and Die Cuts
27. Inktegrity-Anything Goes

Whew! Thanks for letting me ramble and thanks for staying with me! A special thank you to all those talented and generous crafters who provide us with challenges to inspire us! Thanks for looking!