Anyway, because I was doing everything reasonably in advance, I decided to cross stitch the front of the card. This was a mistake. I don't know if everybody else who does cross stitch has super sonic fingers or something, but frankly it took me a long time, and a lot of catching up on 'the wonders' of Derren Brown whilst I did so. Frankly, torture*. But I'm not going to give somebody something else just because I'm bored, so it was finished.I backed the sewn circle with navy coloured foam, and then made a ribbon rosette by sewing a running stitch down one side of the ribbon and pulling it so it gathered.
The message was written on vellum with a black sakura glaze pen (which gives a very slight 3D effect) so the backing paper can still be seen through the translucent paper the message is written on. I decorated the frame with some brads in the corners and then raised it by placing foam at each of the four corners.
I made two embellishments for the inside of the card - a baby's bottle and a pram. This was mostly cut out paper shapes, and then being backed on blue foam, although I created small, silver wire circles for the pram's wheels too. They were secured either with doubled sided sticky tape, or more foam pads.
* Also, note my total idiocy of sewing four balloons that were later hidden by the sewn circle. Idiocy.
