Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge - 22 April 2011

Well this fortnight seems to have flown by and we have seen some gorgeous entries for the Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge.  Onto the challenge this fortnight.  The topic is "recycle".  This is quite appropriate as it is Earth day on 22 April 2011.

  

the plastic CD with alcohol inks

My finished card

I was a little stumped at first with what to do for this challenge but then I watched a few shows I recorded when Tim Holtz was over here in the UK and can't bear to delete them.  When I recently bought some blank CDs to store back-ups of my photos the pile of CDs came with a clear plastic disc on top for protection so I decided to bring out my alcohol inks and have a play.  When I saw Tim on QVC and he used the metallic colours I had to go and buy a gold and it gives it a lovely effect.  As Tim gave me the inspiration I decided to cut into a piece of paper from a Tim stack my eldest son bought me for Christmas (well I have had it for four months and looked and looked at it so it was about time it got used - boo hoo).  I cut a large scallop on my Cricut and inked the edges with Tim Holtz's tattered Rose distress ink pad.  I distressed the edges of the paper with my paper distresser and inked these edges as well.  The image is from the Sweet Pea Stamps Ching Chou-Kuik's Collection Sheet 14.  I have coloured the image in with Promarkers and highlighted areas with my Sakura pens for a bit of sparkle.  I cut around the edge of the image with my deckle edged scissors and inked the edges with Peeled paint distress ink pad.

The card is then finished off with some stitching, some stars cut from my Cricut and coloured in with a Rose Pink Promarker, glittery butterfly which I have had for a few years, two buttons from an old top that had seen better days, lace, raffia ribbon, card candy, feather, some flowers from my Artylicious Essence of Nature CD (but I got my printer to print two sheets to a page and therefore they are a lot smaller than on the CD) and the card is finished off with three flowers I made from cutting shapes with a Nestabilities flower die from an old book, colouring with Rose Pink Promarker, cutting round and round the shape to make a spiral, rolling up, sticking together and adding some Stickles for some sparkle.

Well I hope you can pop over to the Sweet pea Stampers Challenge Blog to have a look at the other wonderful entries.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

2 Sisters - BINGO - flowers, glimmer/shimmer and punch/die-cuts for me

Sugar Creek Hollow - Monochromatic

Sentimental Sundays - Celebrate Spring/Easter

Let's Ink it Up - Stitching

One Stitch at a Time - Make it sassy

Paper Sundaes - Texture

Pile it on - Smells like rubber

Craft Your Passion - You've been spotted

Simon Says Stamp and Show - a Lord Tim of Holtz Technique (using alcohol inks, used distresser on paper and inked edges, inked edges with Tattered Rose on scallop shape and also image)

Incy Wincy - Bright and bold

Tuesday Throwdown - Polka dots

Creative Card Crew - Recycle (I have recycled the plastic CD and also the buttons)

Crafts and me - Pink and sweet

I Love Promarkers - Anything goes

Top Tip Tuesday - Open theme
In a Sweet Pea Dream - Favourite colour Sweet Pea 
Cooking it up with Katie - Flowers, for a lady and lots of pink

ABC Challenge - S is for sparkle

Moving Along With the Times - Recycle (I have recycled the plastic CD and also the buttons)

Pixie Dust - Spring forward

Ai factory - Flowers in bloom
Digi Doodle Shop Best - Glitter and glitz
Shelly's Images - Show us what you got
CRAFT - Flowers
Crafty Purple Frog - Touchy feely
Cupcake Craft - Lots of layers
Delicious Doodles - Anything goes
Fussy and Fancy Friday - Springtime
Stamp Something - Recipe Something - Flowers, buttons and sparkle
Prairie fairy - April showers bring May flowers