Valerie's Gift Blog Hop

Shadow Box

Sentiment on Card

This is a special blog hop for Colleen Dickinson.  A new stamp was released by Whimsy Stamps and was named after Colleen's daughter, Valerie who passed away in a fatal car accident.  The name of this stamp is "Valerie's Gift".

Fourteen of Colleen's blogging friends are participating in a "surprise" blog hop using this cute stamp named in honor of her daughter.  I am so happy I was asked to participate.  I will be sending this card to you Colleen.   I created a shadow box to frame this cute stamp.  The front of the box was created using the Cuttlebug "Brocade Window" Cut and Emboss folder.  The image was stamped twice so one could be cut apart to make her dimensional.  Three pieces are dimensional:  The head and collar; the gift; and her boots.  She was colored with colored pencils and oms.  The bottom of the shadow box has a piece of lavender design paper attached to it.  Valerie was attached with two, double thick, clear glue pop dots, to lift her high from the bottom of the box.  Two rows of grass were cut with a Martha Stewart "grass punch" and added. There is a lot of dimension to this image.

The greeting is from the JustRite "Thinking of You" set.  It was cut out using scissors, sponged around the edges, and attached with pop dots.  I made some purple vellum flowers and added them to the greeting and around the frame.  Small pearls were added to the center of each flower.  Martha Stewart butterfiles were added to complete the card.  A piece of card stock was punched on two sides with the Martha Stewart "Swirling Lace" punch and attached to the back of the shadow box.

Here are all the bloggers participating in this blog hop for Colleen:

Mary Anne
Patti J.
Shirley    
Linda Payne
Dee Marie
Betty Benton
Patti Sue Nelson
Theresa Pollock 
Cheri Weston
Geri U. 
Rebekka Reed
Selma S.     (you are here)
Patti Painter
Olga

Have fun checking out all these beautiful cards.

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