Spring Beauty Birthday Card

My lovely friend will be 40 next week and she's soooo not looking forward to it! I wanted to make her a special card but avoid all reference to her age, this is what I've come up with.

The digi stamp from Stamping Dragon Designs has been printed out twice onto card. I've created a mask for her face and then used distress inks to create a background. I've used Promarkers for her skin, odd strands of hair and the flowers and leaves. The entire image has then been given a spritz of Glimmer Mist. I've distressed the edges of the image and then mounted it onto black card to try and add some depth. The flowers have been made using my new Tattered Florals die - I created a paper using inks, spritzed it with Glimmer Mist and then highlighted the edge of the petals with Stickles.

Tools
Purple Cows Guillotine
Tim Holtz Distressing Tool
Tim Holtz Blender Tool
Sizzix Big Shot
Sizzix Tattered Florals Die
Fern Die - Little Claire's

Materials
Image - Spring Beauty by Stamping Dragon Designs
White/Black Card - The Papermill
Blue Shimmer Paper - from stash
Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Spun Sugar, Broken China, Victorian Velvet, Dusty Concord
Stickles - Stardust
Glimmer Mist - Diamond
Promarkers - Slate, Lilac, Ivory, Blush, Rose Pink
Diamantes - Poundland