Secret Crafter Challenge - 12 February 2011

 

Over at the Secret Crafter Challenge this week the topic is a stamped flower.  I decided to do a one layer card to enter some other challenges.  I nearly didn't enter this as I struggle with cards like this as I hate stamping onto the actual card as things always seem to go wrong.  Thankfully things didn't seem to go wrong this time.  I measured the size of the stamp, folded a piece of copier paper in half and drew out a square shape for half the stamp and then used my tearing ruling to get a distressed edge to it.  I then used a mixture of Tim Holtz Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade ink pads and my ink dusters to make the background.  I then made the square a little bigger again using the tearing ruler and this time used my Fired Brick distress ink pad.  The stamp I used was from Elusive Images and I stamped with Versafine and coloured in with Promarkers.  I then doodled around the edge of the distressing with my fine liner pen.  I'm still not convinced I like it.

This card fits the following challenges:

Digi Doodles - nature

Alphabet Challenge - O for orange

Totally Papercrafts - Clean and simple

Drunken Stampers - Loss for words - no sentiment

Creative Inspirations - Distress

Stampin' Sisters in Christ - KISS card

Incy Wincy - Colour me wonderful - at least two colouring mediums - distress inks and Promarkers for me

Lollipop crafts - Favourite colouring medium - Promarkers but closely followed by distress inks.