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Monday 17 May 2010

Lets get Distressed

This weeks challenge from Michelle Perkett Studio is to use distressing so I've used some of my favourite techniques in this card as I love distressing



The image is coloured with promarkers and the background watercoloured with Shabby Shutters and distress inks. I used to same colours to create a background sheet and then cut it up and altered the pieces for this weeks sketch from Sketch Saturday. The large background is overstamped with a swirls and versamagic 'eggplant'. The vertical panel is inked with lots of the darker eggplant ink, cuttlebugged and then sanded.The two smaller pieces are overtstamped with swirls using with the same two distress inks and dusted with cosmic shimmer powders. I then distressed the edges of all the pieces with my craft knife and inked them with eggplant. The image is mounted with foam pads and I added some paper rose, ribbon and a little charm which says 'Follow your Dreams' to finish off for this weeks challenge from I Love Digi which is Charming

Thanks for looking and happy Monday morning to everyone :-)
Claire xx

18 comments:

  1. Lovely card Claie, gorgeous image
    Beryl x

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  2. Gorgeous card Claire, love purple lol!! Fab image and love your added charm, so beautiful :)

    Thanks for joining us at I Love Digi this week :)

    Elaine x

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  3. This is gorgeous Claire, stunning Image.xxx

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  4. Oh wow Claire this is totally beautiful what a gorgeous image and your papers are a perfect backdrop for her the distressing gives such a great look.
    Hugs
    Lorraine x

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  5. gorgeous card.
    Thanks for joining us at I ♥ Digi
    poppy

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  6. Well I dont know about 'lets get distressed' methinks I need to get showered and dressed!!

    Super card with lovely soft shades of lilac!

    Keryn x

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  7. This is a gorgeous creation Claire! Love the purple & green :) Cosmic shimmer powder sounds very interesting...might have to Google that! Love how you've made the background papers and put it all together...a beautiful card!

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  8. Stunning Claire. Love it. Cathy xxx

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  9. Beautiful card Claire, I love the purples and green, your distressing is amazing!

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  10. Oh I love the purple and lavender colors of this card! Great little charm too :) Thanks for playing at I Love Digi!

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  11. Hi Claire! Wow! this is gorgeous!! I love your distressing on the background, its the perfect compliment to all of the lavender and purple embellies and coloring of Summer!! I love the charm, too!! Thank you for another beautiful entry to our challenge this week!!:)

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  12. Claire, this is sooo pretty! I love the colors too.

    Hugs
    pattie

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  13. Gorgeous Claire, my favourite colours, love everything about it.
    Bet you were 'distressed' making this. LOL
    Christine xx

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  14. This is beautiful, Claire!!! I love the purple and you did an awesome job distressing. Such awesome DP too!!

    Thank you for playing with us at Michelle Perkett Studio this week!!

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  15. A gorgeous card, so pretty.xx

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  16. Hi Claire! what a beautiful card!!! I love the little charm you added and how you colored the image! what a pretty card with all that distressing!!! Hugs

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  17. Beautiful card! Such a wonderful color and a fab image!
    Thanks so much for joining us at I ♥ Digi! I hope to see you again soon!
    Dee (Spryte)

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