CCT School's out : 'sunshine'

CCT theme this week is 'schools out for the summer'.  I was a bit stumped at first as I don't need any teacher's thank you card or anything like that but then I saw this amongst my stamps and thought she summed up school summer holidays perfectly and I can use it for any occasion :)

The cute girl is one of the old style Penny Black stamps and it's a biggy - hence minimal embellishments.  Just lots of border punches used, piece of dp and some ribbon.  The top left corner lacked something so I cut out matching circle and curved it with embossing tool to make a matching brad.  That's pretty much all there is too it but any more and it would have looked too cluttered I think. Yes I've set everything off at an angle (I have tendency to do that - it always looks better to me like that, maybe I see things wonky LOL).

I'm particularly pleased with my blue punched out border.  At first it was just the Martha stewart shells running along the top but I thought the straight bit under it didn't look right so I used an EK success wavy border punch along the bottom and love the result :)

Stash:

Stamps: Girl (not sure of proper name) ~ Penny Black, 'sunshine' sentiment & dotty flourish ~ various mini clear stamps

Colouring: Copics with added glitter accents to her clothes etc using Sakura clear stardust pen and stickles on the waves

Paper: Pink Paislee '360 degrees'

Tools: lots of border punches and a circle punch for my faux brad & SU slot punch to thread the ribbon through image

Others:Ribbon

Thanks for dropping  by.  Think that's all I've got time for this week so until next week  have a lovely weekend.