Penny Black Saturday #150 - Distressing

Good morning all, and welcome to another Penny Black Saturday Challenge. It was wonderful to see all your milestones cards last week, and special thanks to those of you who made cards for me to help me celebrate my 50th birthday last Wednesday :-) Don’t forget to check the main challenge blog to see if you have won last week’s prize.

Before we get on to this week’s challenge we have some exciting news – we have two new members of the Design Team … so hope you will give a big welcome to

Helen
and
Ali

They are both fab girlies and big Penny Black fans who make gorgeous cards … so you’re all in for a treat!

On then to this week’s challenge, and the theme this time is

Distressing

As always you can interpret this however you like as long as you submit a new piece of work, using a Penny Black image, large sentiment or stickeroo as its main focus.

We have two fabulous prizes for randomly drawn winners this week … firstly from Penny Black

… this adorable stamp – 4054K  “Gentlest Kiss”

..and secondly from The Ribbon Girl

10 bundles of seam binding of the winner’s colour choice – wow!

This week’s challenge theme made me start thinking of vintage styles and colours, which was brilliant as it gave me opportunity to use some of the goodies I received from bloggy friends for my birthday! :-)

I have actually used a number of distressing and related techniques on this card.

First of all I embossed my script stamp onto card with detail white powder, then I created a distressed background using antique linen and tumbled glass distress inks daubed onto an acrylic block and spritzed with water before stamping onto white card. I “aged” the background a little more by stamping age spots onto the image using antique linen distress ink; then I stamped my main image twice using tumbled glass and peeled paint distress inks spritzed with water.

I distressed the edges of my image using my Tim Holtz distressing tool before mounting it onto brown card with deckle edges. I used BasicGrey papers and Prima hydrangeas kindly sent to me for my birthday by Laurie; and yummy chocolate coloured ribbon (or is it seam binding?? .. whatever, I love it!) from Helen – thanks so much to you both! My papers already had a distressed inked-edges kind of look, but I further distressed my darker paper by inking the edges and deckling the edges.

Recipe:
Main image: Penny Black “Quite Dandy” inked with tumbled glass and peeled paint distress inks;
Background stamps: Crafty Individuals script stamp; Butterfly Kisses age spots;
Sentiment: Penny Black transparent set “Salutations”;
Papers: BasicGrey “Capella” from Laurie;
Supplies: Prima hydrangeas from Laurie; cherry blossoms from Wild Orchid Crafts; pearls from The Hobby House; ribbon from my friend Helen; dragonfly brad and lace from my stash;
Tools: Leone Em “Ash branch” leaf punch.

Challenges:
Cute Card Thursday #163 – I Love Chocolate A Lot! PaperPlay #18 – Show Us Your Style
(I love lots of lace and flower embellies and also brushstroke stamping)
Creative Inspirations #110 - Embossing
Raise The Bar #65 – Flower Power
Crazy4Challenges #86 - Flowers
Really Reasonable Ribbon #23 – Use 2 ribbons, laces or trims
Stamp With Fun #109 – Lace or Ribbon
Kaboodle #65 – Embellishments beginning with a “B” (brad, bow)
Allsorts #102 – Stamp A Lot (use 3 different stamps)
Secret Crafter #133 – Dust Off Your Stash
(old stamps and dragonfly brad)
Papertake Weekly – Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday #32 – Open Challenge

That’s all for today – hope you can join us and have a great weekend!