A Card for Trin

Tanya, a great blogging friend, was looking for card donations for a little girl she knows who is battling the same type of cancer my Dad had.  So, my daughter, Maddie and I shook off the feeling of sickness and sadness and got to work.

We altered a key first.  We sanded the key then applied 3 or 4 coats of acrylic paint.  Then we painted on a layer of crackle accents.  When it was dry, we stamped on a PK face and inked her cheeks with a pink pen.  Then we rubbed brown and gold ink on the key with our fingers.  We laced a ribbon through the key hole (it is behind the hair, so you can't see it) and then added some DMC floss and made pigtails with tiny twine bows.  That may have been the hardest part of it all.  We put some bling on the cut part of the key and then I sewed a gathering stitch into a piece of pink tulle and we glued and trimmed and cut until we were happy with the effect and thought it looked like a dress.  We added a bow and some tiny pearls, and then sat back and admired her for a while cuz she wore us out.  Here she is ready for her close up:

The next step was to decide what to put her on.  I immediately thought that the princess receiving the card needed a crown.  So with Sweet Treats and a little bling from my mother in law, we ended up with a cute, princess worthy Valentine crown.  I decided that I was going to try one of those Art Philosophy roses my friends Joy and Tatiana are so good at.  Whew!  They aren't easy.  I only liked one out of the three I cut and rolled.  I have to look at some tutorials on that.  Then I tied the altered key onto the crown and put a couple of tiny foam dots behind the bottom of the key to keep it in place.  This makes the key easily removable to tie on a backpack zipper pull or anywhere else you might want to tie a key that has been given  new life as a ballerina princess. ;)  When all was said and I done, Maddie and I sat back and thought we had done alright. I really hope it brings just a little sun to Princess Trin's day.