A Hard Theme

Away with Autumn, I headed back to Summer last night for a couple of projects.

The 1st was a card for the Fab & Funky challenge #91 to try out a technique or theme you find hard.  I've gone for 'no lines' stamping which I first saw pioneered over at Make It Crafty, but you know how these things travel around blogland, so apologies if I've got that wrong.

I've used a strawberry picking Tilda with an Angel Pink Memento ink pad.  The colouring was tricky/different and I was particularly pleased with how her hair turned out.  What I hadn't expected to be difficult was making up the card, but actually it was awkward trying to find papers and embellishments that didn't swamp the stamped image.  I think I might try again with a shabby chic kind of look in Sepia colours.

I was trying to make my own punched, layered flowers for another challenge when I noticed that some of the cut away petals looked like little strawberries, so I went for a punched out collection of strawberries, flowers and leaves.  See below for details of the papers used.

Challenges:

Fab & Funky #91 - A hard theme

Moving Along With The Times #117 - 3 patterned papers (MME, Echo Park and BoBunny)

2 types of embellishment (punch shapes and ribbon)

1 image (Tilda)

Try it On Tuesday - Wonderful world (where would we be without strawberries!!)

Fussy & Fancy - Try a new technique

I'll post the 2nd project I made a bit later otherwise my morning will be gone sat at the pooter.

** Kate **