Christine's Daisy

Evening everyone

Well at last I have managed to make another card.  Yesterday I bought one of Christine Gray's lovely digistamps.  I again chose to practise colouring with my polychromos pencils so I only hope Chris thinks I have done her lovely stamp justice.

First of all I have to say that the glue was still wet on the bow and it slipped while I was taking this photograph so it's not actually at that angle now!

Before Easter I tried my hand at distressing for the first time when I distressed a little case for my son's partner but before I started on the case I had a quick try on an oval piece of mountboard.  This I did by using green emulsion paint onto the mountboard and when it was dry I applied a coat of pva glue, followed by white emulsion paint and then used a heat gun.  So today I took this oval and added some Tim Holtz distress ink around the edges and used it for Christine's daisy.

I made my own background paper in Craft Artist, using the colours I had used on the daisy stamp.  Once printed I tore (neatly!) around the edges and then distressed the backing paper using more TH distress ink.  The central oval is mounted onto Coredinations card which was cut using a Spellbinders die and then lightly sanded around the edges.  I finished the card with ribbon from my stash (and made that wonky bow!!).  As usual I haven't yet added a sentiment but will do this when I know who the recipient of this card will be.

And finally I have used Craft Artist to make the insert

This is a scrren shot as I haven't yet printed it out so will decide then whether to leave it as is or whether to distress it to match the front.

As I haven't made many cards recently I haven't entered any challenges either, so I have decided to enter this one into the Crafty Bloggers Network challenge 20, "Love Paints".

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Thank you for visiting my blog.

Catherine