A card needed this time for a family friend who celebrates her birthday this month - the BIG 40.

This design was taken from Tumble Tizzy CD - from the decoupage section.

The page was printed direct form the CD, I didn't particularly like the scalloped background that was on the printout so I decided to cut the base section away from the background. All other parts were cut out and layered up using 1mm 3d foam pads.

I matted the decoupage bear and glass onto cream cardstock and then on a burgundy red card and black card stock.

The base section was again using cream card and red striped cardstock (from Stampin Up range), a black ribbon was attached across the join with a diamonte buckle. The back section was matted onto red and black card and fixed to the base card.

Black triangles were cut and fixed to all corner sections.

A personalised message for Tracy was printed and matted onto red and black card and fixed to the lower striped section of the card.

To help compensate the weight of the front of the card, once glass section of the bear was retained and matted onto a cream circle which was mattered onto a red and black scalloped circle, this was added to the back of the card using double sided tape.
 

Lets hope Tracy had a fab 40th birthday and enjoyed celebrating.