PEARLY SPARKLES - HEARTS #116

Our challenge this month at Pearly Sparkles is Hearts.  I've gone away from the traditional colours for this card and it is actually going to be for hubby.  My background was made with some Distress Oxides in Hickory Smoke and Fossilized Amber and Faded Jeans .  I added some extra stamping using Alison Bombers grasses stamp and also some texture paste.  I created the tag using a very old stamp from Tim Holtz - I spotted it being used on Stampers Anonymous You Tube video and remembered I had the same stamp from about 20 years ago!  I kept the same colours.  

I layered the tag onto some old book pages - as this card is for hubby the pages I used have a significance as one of his favourite places in the world is Rome, especially Piazza Navona which you can just see peeking out. The love word is also an old Tim Holtz one, possible from the same set as the heart.

I'm adding this into the following:

The paper players - love is in the air 

We love 2 create - AG 

We love Stamping - Hearts 

Crafts Galore Encore - AG 

Allsorts - create your own background 

SSS - Wednesday - AG 

THE MALE ROOM - #183, VALENTINE - USE A HEART

Our challenge this month at The Male Room is Valentine/Use a Heart.  I cut the heart die cut with it's matching edge from a Creative Expressions die and used the negative space as a stencil.  I used Distress Ink Mustard Seed, Fossilised Amber and a touch of Vintage Photo. I added some water to parts of the background to lift the colour and give it a bleached effect. 

As I was using the stamp set from Aida Domisiewicz for Aallandcreate #47 which had bees and honey I chose to use these colours rather than the usual red.  I think it's worked out lovely and hubby will be getting this for his Valentine.  I used a stamp set called Background Voices by Bipasha Bk for Aallandcreate for the background stamping.  A little bit of bling in some embellishments and gold Pebeo wax finished off the card. 

I'm adding this into the following: 

Creative Inspiration - AG 

Just us girls - Love 

Simon Says Stamp Wed - Love 

We love stamping - romance 

Stamping Sensations - Creatures 

Addicted to CAS - Heart 

CAS on Sunday - Heart 

613 AVENUE CREATE CHALLENGE BLOG

I'm delighted to have been included in the Design Team for 613 Avenue Create  challenge blog.  The challenge is always Anything Goes but with some optional twists.  My first challenge for them this month is to include hearts or soles on your project.  As I don't have anything with shoes I opted for hearts.

I started out by creating my background piece with Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Spun Sugar, Peacock Feathers and Antique Linen.  I added some stamped images and then gently inked over.  The Heart was cut out with a stitched framelit and layered with a piece of doily underneath.  The little love die was one from my stash.  I added some lace and a ribbon and the truly came from a dictionary.  It was one I was just about to throw away when hubby said could you not use it for your crafting?  Haven't I trained him well!!! I added a button and some paper flowers from my stash.  

I'm adding this into the following challenges also:

As You Like It - True Love - my hubby is my sweetheart and has been for over 40 years!

LilRed Wagon - Hearts

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Love is in the Air

Creative Artiste Mixed Media - Anything Goes