Good morning everyone, and welcome to a new Allsorts Challenge. Due to the school holidays we have another two week challenge for you this time - Brenda has chosen the theme and it is
*** Anything Goes with option of Roses ***
A lovely option where we hope you may be inspired by all the summer roses blooming in the garden!
This week we have 2 fabulous prizes - first from Oakwood Direct
Here's my card for this week.
I don't own a lot of stamps featuring roses, and although I love this one I'm always a bit unsure how to use it ... with its background stamping it demands to be cut into a panel which will form a card topper, but I can't seem to make it work with my design papers (probably as I’m so out of practice using them I’ve forgotten what I have!!). I therefore kept it simple and placed it on a simple stencilled background.
Firstly I created a smoosh panel with Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide and Antique Linen Distress ink, then stamped my image with Vintage Sepia Versafine and heat embossed. I coloured the flower with distress inks, then distressed the edges with my distress tool and edged the panel with more DI. I spattered the image panel with gold Posca pen then matted it onto some rose gold card stock which I cut into a deckle edge, and adhered to my card base which I had stencilled with DI. Finally I stamped my sentiment and heat embossed in gold, and added a few heart gems.
Here is an angled picture to show the gleam ... it also shows that my spattering went a bit unpredictable which sadly is a problem I tend to have all too often!
Stamps: Chocolate Baroque - Rose Stem Script; Hero Arts - Pen Love;
Media: Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Tattered Rose, Victorian Velvet, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint); Tim Holtz Distress oxide ink (Saltwater Taffy); Vesafin (Vintage Sepia); Versamark; gold embossing powder;
Tools: Lavinia stencil - Divine.
Challenges I would like to enter:
Addicted to Stamps and More #436 - Make Your Mark
Colour Crazy Craft Challenges #33 2022 - Anything Goes With Colouring
Craft Rocket #95 - Flowers
DL.Art (August) - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Let's Craft and Create #186 - Anything Goes + option Feeling Distressed
Simon Says (Monday) - Fun With Stencils
Try It On Tuesday - Summer Blooms
Use Your Stuff #454 - Nature
We love Stamping (August) - In the Garden
Word Art Wednesday #557/558 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)
Hope you can join us for this two week challenge, and I look forward to seeing your entries. Don't forget to visit the challenge blog to see more fab inspiration from the rest of the team. Thanks for visiting.
Hugs,
