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Challenge 15 over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges  and our theme is  'Monochrome  plus one colour'.
Please pop over to see what we have been making, and get all the details. Remember we like to see some stamping on your piece.
This card, has not photographed to well,  I will be trying to get a better one if the light improves today.
The bottom left corner was stamped and  embossed before I added  the shading.

All the stamps are by Chocolate Baroque, stamped with Expresso Adirondak.
The colouring is tea dye, antique linen, distress inks also  various brown watercolours , with my extra colour, red, on the butterflies. The die cuts are  a Memory box die.                                          
I used a brick mask for the background.
The words are  -'because of you my world is a happy place'..

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Words of Wisdom

Wise Words or Words of Wisdom, come to us in many ways. I'm sure we all have our favourites.
I made this tag for  the  Gingersnap Creations  Chestnut theme challenge, which is 'Words of Wisdom'

The background of the tag  and the flowers are stamped with Studio 490 stamps
The shading is distress inks,  wild honey and antique linen.
The words I think are a Tim Holtz stamp.
The lovely Lady is from  the Faux Cabinet card set at Dezinaword .
The trimmings are from my stash.

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Its all about Love

Its card week again over at Try it on Tuesdays and this weeks theme is 'Its all about love'.
We are sponsered by One Stop Cards and Crafts, so please pop over for all the details and see what my team mates have been making.
This card was made by layering a selection of papers, with a couple of die cut hearts  [Spellbinders and Memory Box]. An image of a loving couple with lace and flowers to trim the card.

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Monochrome Magic

Monochrome Magic  is Challenge No 61 over at Crafty Cardmakers
and this time it is hosted by Beth.


We are lucky to have two sponsers this time-

IndigoBlu   who are offering a Flitter Glue Starter Kit and  a gorgeous Love Is stamp


Digi Doodle Shop   who are offering a 10 dollar gift certificate for their store.

Please pop over  to see what my team mates have been making and get all the details for our new challenge.

So here is my take on our Monochrome theme.
 The image is stamped with midnight blue Staz-on. All the other stamping and shading is Distress inks, broken china and tumbled glass. For the fancy edges I used a Martha Stewart punch.
The stamp set I used is from Chocolate Baroque.

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Romance

Today I can share some news, the lovely folk over at  Make My Monday  have asked me to be a Guest Designer for February. I was thrilled to be asked, I realy enjoy their challenges.

February's Theme is  'Romance' and for the first week the challenge is to include Love letters, verse or text.
I hope you will pop over for all the information and see the fantastic examples.
I love making collage cards and have to stop myself from adding more.
The stamps I used for this card are old favourites they are unmounted and I cannot remember who by.
All the shading is tattered rose and antique linen distress ink.
The flowers etc came from my stash.
Challenges -
The Cheerful Stamp Pad, Romance is in the air

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Sitting Pretty

When I read that the new challenge for February  over at Happy Daze was  Love,- 'A technique you love to use'. I didn't realise how difficult it would be to focus on one thing. So forgive me for letting a few favourites creep into this piece.

The first Stamping--stamps used Stampotique and  Studio 490.
Then came grunge ,- paint, distress and generally getting inky- I used a selection of inks and sprays for the clock dial.. The pocket watch is an Art Parts shape.
Last, the collage -with a quick trawl over the desk at the bits and bobs that might be useful, adding a couple of metal embellishments.

It is a dull winters day here in the U.K , so the photos were a problem, not as sharp as I would have liked.


The Stampman Challenge this time is 'Embellish It. So I will enter my Pocket watch here as well.


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Nature.

The last week of the Nature challenges over at Make My Monday and they would like to see 'Butterflies / Dragonflies.
All the stamps used are by Stampers Anonymous. Colouring  is Antique linen and Tattered Rose distress inks, for the stamps the colour was Adirondak  Expresso. I used Wow  powder  [halloween] for the embossing

Here  are the front [on the right ] and back  [on the left] of the page I made for  'February'. The  Fat Page  swap that I am doing with a friend who doesn't blog.
Collaged with  bits and bobs and elements from a variety of sources.
It is a stamped background.




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