A Stair Step Card

I've made my first stair step card using the fab tutorial on the Whimsie Doodles blog and my new Martha Stewart Scoreboard, it took literally seconds to make the card base and the rest of the week for me to decide how to decorate it ;-)

The card is for my mum who has been poorly now for a few weeks with a horrible infection in her ear and face. I am hoping the card will put a little smile on her face and I purposefully made it bright and cheery, be careful when looking as it's pretty bright!

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges if I may:

Sir Stampalot - May Challenge, Butterflies & Blossoms

Allsorts - Week 50, Animals (birds & butterflies)

Cupcake - Challenge 88, Don't Be Square

CRAFT - Challenge 48, Shaped Card

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 110, Make Your Own (I made the card blank and lots of embellies for the card)

MSE - 3 b's challenge set by the lovely Padster (my b's are: butterflies, bling, birds, beaks, branches, bark, braid, border, Basic Grey, buttons, blooms and bright colours)

The pic below hopefully shows the dimension on the card. I've used lots of 3d foam pads for the birds and their wings. For the flowers I have cut them with a punch and then crumpled the paper up and opened again so the petals are raised but in an irregular way (does that make sense?).

Supplies:

French Vanilla Bazzill cardstock

White embossed cardstock - Craftwork Cards

Papers - Basic Grey Green At Heart from The Secret Crafter

Sentiment - Paper Make Up stamp only $1 in the sale!

Buttons - Basic Grey Lemonade (I think?)

Braid/string - stash

Pearls - The Hobby House

Tools - Woodware flower punch, Craftwork Cards template, Hobbycraft butterfly punch