Distress It!

Hi everyone, another month has passed us by, a new challenge 

for the next month at Sparkles Christmas is

Distress It!

Now we aren't suggesting you are to be up in arms and feeling blue,

no, we would like to see your Christmas project which has been distressed 

in a creative way. 

Please check out the DT inspiration at the blog above.

For my card, I firstly created a red card from a sheet of A4 red card.

The striped paper is from my Papermania stash.

The main image was printed from the CD in the 

Crafter's Companion Inspiration Issue # 7 pack.  - Nordic papers.

I scraped the edges and blended with Vintage Photo DI.

Added some blue and white twine from my stash. 

Matted onto black card to help it pop. 

Have fun everyone. 

Distress It!

For the nextd two weeks at Fantasty Stampers the challenge is 

Distress It!

Why don't you pop over to see what the Design Team have created, 

we have enjoyed doing a little tearing, and scrubbing the edges.

Materials Used

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Black scalloped card

Design papers from LOTV - Timeless Victorian

Stamp - gold embossed - Love Tulips by Woodware.

Greetings stamp by Crafter's Companion

Kraft embellishments from Poundland

All edges scored with scissors, coloured with Vintage Photo.

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Hoep to see you there. 

Angels or Fantasy- I'm no Angel

I'll be honest, usually I look for a challenge then make a card for it, but this week, I made three cards for my class which I decided to enter into challenges, the theme for the class was Distressing- How far to go? So, for a change, when I went to Feline Playful to check on the current challenges, I was pleased to find there were three suitable challenges to enter my three cards into.
 Starting with Card 1 - I am entering into Southern Girls Challenge #49 Angels or Fantasy, mine fits into the Fantasy. When I was making my cards each one got more distressed than the previous, this one made it as far as I think I could go, with  a Gothic theme. Pages torn from an old book provided the final background, distressed with Dusty Concord and Black Soot. A torn black piece of paper, the main background card started out white, I blended several Distress inks, the main being Dusty Concord, it was spritzed with Sprinky's Amethyst from Inkylicious. Stamped with Gothic type stamps from Tandastamps. The main images as on all of the 3 cards, are from Kanban - Jasper set, coloured with Promarkers. I hope you like my gothic version of a distressed card.