"Color Me Pretty" at the Shabby Tea Room

I haven't played at the Shabby Tea Room for quite some time.  I adore shabby cards, but they don't come naturally to me, so I need to keep practicing.  This week's challenge is to use white or cream, pink and blue, plus flowers and a fabric element.  I started with this pretty vintage print of 2 flowers that have so much meaning to me, and then found some papers that would enhance it.

supplies: cream parchment cardstock, design papers from Bazzill Basics Vintage Marketplace" and Authentique's "Delighful" paper pads, BoBunny Mint Dot, Hero Arts LP128 Artistic Windows (script on background), CL564 Friend, You're the Best (sentiment), VersaFine vintage sepia ink, Nesties scalloped rectangles, Hobby Lobby lace, white pearls, Wplus9 Folk Art Florals (leaf diecuts), seam binding dyed with spun sugar distress ink, blue dotted button, all distressed lightly with antique linen distress ink

I roughed up some of the edges and distressed them, randomly stamped the script on the background blue, and dyed my seam binding with spun sugar distress ink, centering it with a blue dotted button.  I also added a few pearls along the leaf stems to simulate more lily of the valley.  

Here's our photo inspiration:

And I'd also like to add this to the "Flowers and Ribbon" challenge at Really Reasonable Ribbon.

Edited to add: This card was published in Create: Vintage Idea Book Magazine, in January 2013.