Saturday 9 July 2011

CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS CALLING CARD CHALLENGE

One of my favorite craft companies CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS has a Design Team call at the moment so I thought I'd have a go. They have set a challenge for all the DT hopefuls that is to produce a piece of work that has an ATC somewhere on the piece. This is the card that I've made for the challenge.
I started of with a cream card blank and edged it with old paper and stormy sky Distress ink. For the background I coloured some white card with spun sugar using the direct to paper technique and then using a baby wipe I spread some broken china and faded jeans over the pink. I stamped the background using stormy sky and then went round the edge with stormy sky using my finger. I tore the edge of a piece of beige corrugated card and coloured parts of it and the edge with stormy sky, then I attached it to the background card, I wrapped a piece of string round it and attached the background to the card blank.
For the ATC I stamped the image onto a piece of spare background card then I tore the edges and went round the edge with faded jeans, then attached it to a piece of blue ATC size card. I stuck blue gems to three of the corners and a little bird charm to the other. For the words I put a strip of blue card through my Dymo machine and put a bit of stormy sky over the letters.
The main image and little birds were stamped with black Archival ink and I used Distress ink for the rest.
The stamps that I used are
Artistic Outpost, the main image.
Inkadinkado, the background.
Tattered Angels, the background.

12 comments:

  1. oooh, that's gorgeous Hazel! I really like it, and good luck with the DT call! Maria x

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  2. Best of luck hazel xxx

    Sam xxx

    http://sam21ski.blogspot.com/

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  3. A super card Hazel :) good luck
    Von x

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  4. Gorgeous card and good luck with the DT call! Valerie

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  5. Gorgeous Hazel!! Best of luck...your work is amazing!! Hugs
    Heather

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  6. OOh Hazel, Love this card, good luck with the DT call, your card is gorgeous, Gay xxx

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  7. Hazel, this is so beautiful.
    Good Luck with the DT.
    Wishes
    Lynne

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  8. Hazel, i am in love with your little boy blue, isnt he just gorgeous ? Fab work my friend
    Hope you have had a lovely weekend
    Hugs June xxx

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  9. Stunning card, love the layers! Good luck! xxx

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  10. This is so lovely! Good luck with the DT call!

    I have not been able to do any hopping lately, so had missed all of this page of your work. I love them all, especially the Flapper! She reminds me of pictures of my Mother during those flapper years~!

    Such lovely work!

    Hugs, Pat

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  11. Good Luck - gorgeous shades of blue and a lovely atc to boot.

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