Bigging it Up for Jodie

I have the wonderful honour of having made a brand new friend recently. Especially as she's a talented designer I've admired from afar for quite a while now. I've loved her work and have even bought her products without even knowing she was behind them. I am referring to the delightful vintage styled creations of the Gypsy Chick herself, Jodie Lee.

I once read that Mark Gatiss, upon meeting his hero, Rufus Wainwright, found it was all he could do to stop himself from touching the singer's nose. I feel the exact same way about Jodie (she doesn't know this yet lol).

I first knew of Jodie's work from buying her digital designs through Jessica Sprague's website. Then she wrote a comment on my blog having seen that I had incorporated one of her rubber stamp designs in one of my cards. I didn't know it at the time, but she is the talent behind Pink Paislee's Butterfly Garden Collection (a huge fave of mine. I've used the stamps but cannot, will not, cut into my lovely 12x12 papers).

Anyhoo, for reasons I'll explain tomorrow, I made a card using some of my Jodie Lee stash. The background paper with the rose design is actually a freebie which

you can download from her blog. The rest was from my digital collection.

The buttons are a technique I found online for transforming plain types into shabby chic, using liquid pearl paint, distress crackle and then distress ink.

Finally, the inspiration for the card's design came from this week's CASE study challenge.

Okay, off to write the post for tomorrow. Can't say much now but (hint, hint) there may be another link to a freebie, so stay tuned.