Amelia

 I have been have been cracking on with DT cards and Christmas cards as I am going to be working silly hours in the run up to Christmas ... but i had to have a play, so I went a bit to town with inks, techniques and mess!!!

 I love this Simply Sassy, I think if I had to have a favourite it would be Amelia.  I stamped her twice, colouring her in just warm greys, and then in autumnal colours.  I used the cracked glass technique on the warm grey image, having distressed the edges, and cut out 3 sections of the other image using my nestie saquare, and matted them onto chippy squares. I then placed them on the base image when it had been cracked and distressed.

  I  made the dp for the card using distress inks, glimmer mists and masks.  For the background one I wanted to have a sort of circle as per the sketch i was following, so I used a fab mask called chicken wire.  I used distress inks to build up the depth of colour, dried it off and then added walnust gold glimer mist.  The watch/compass mask is from Tattered Angels and I sprayed over it using tuscan sunrise, brick and tattered leather.  I cut the middle out of the watch/compass mask and used that to punch the butterflies (waste not want not!!!), and added a gold organza ribbon.  Lace and raffia add texture, and a few pearls.  I stamped a TH journalling tag using a TH sentiment, scrunched and inked it.

 Challenges:
Saturated Canary - autumn colours
2 Sisters - anything goes
Daring Cardmakers - inspired by jewllery (antique gold and fob watches)
Paperplay- cracked glass
Addicted to stamps - lace and pearls
One Stop Craft - ribbons and lace
Cupcake Inspirations - colours and gemometric shapes taken from the cake
Pink Ink Sketches - sketch
Stamptacular Sunday - punch it