City Crafter challenge "Paris"

Good morning all. Friday already! Where did this week go?

I had time to finally make a card for the City Crafter's challenge found here. The challenge is to incorporate a Paris theme. I don't usually do "shabby" cards, but they sure have been surfacing a lot lately and some of you are oh, so talented with presenting such a beautiful creation, so here is my very modest version and try at a shabby.

I wanted to use this "Chocolat" line of papers from SEI that encompass the Paris theme quite well and I had a go at making a ribbon rose, my first!

I gathered a folded length of this rose coloured ribbon and just shaped it into a spiral and placed a couple of glue dots on the back to secure in place. The center has a Webster's glass chocolate coloured sparkle button that I thought was a perfect tie in to the other chocolate elements on the card front. The sentiments (Mon Amie and Merci) are stamped in a chocolate ink and I added some little pearls and tucked an Eiffel Tower charm in between the rose and main sentiment.

The border at the bottom was created with an EK Success slim punch with a FDL pattern. I added some larger pearls to the bottom corner and all of the paper edges are sponged with brown ink.
Here is a close up of the rose.

That's my first Shabby with my first ribbon rose. I need to practice on both of these techniques!

Thanks for taking a peek today and I hope to be able to make some more cards later.

Cheers!

Chriss