Sunday 13 July 2008

Tilda & Co

How time flies!! Nearly time for the kids breaking up from school for the Summer already!! Onto this week's challenge on the Tilda & Co Challenge Blog and it's challenge # 28....

Distressed Tilda


Make her Distressed looking, a little rough around the edges, a bit of
grungy!
So stay clear of these cute pastel colours if you can help it and get
down and dirty with tilda!

For my distressed Tilda card I used a K&Co patterned paper for the background and I sanded it all over and then rubbed over a distress ink pad.
The "frame" is made of a patterned vellum which I again sanded and rubbed the distress ink pad over. For the middle aperture I ripped the opening and rubbed the ink pad over and folded some little pieces back. I then sanded some leaf brads to make them look older. I also rubbed the ink over the ribbon. For the main image. I took a square of watercolour paper and brushed over it with a distress ink and water, let it dry and then sponged over another colour of distress ink. Tilda was also watercoloured in with distress inks. I then used the around the block tape writer for the sentiment.

Stamps:- Magnolia
Papers & Vellum:- K&Co
Inks:- Tim Holtz distress inks- vintage photo & old paper
Leaf brads:- HOTP

The DT never fail to amaze me with their gorgeous work, you can see it all here
http://magnoliachallengeblog.blogspot.com/
why not join in with this week's challenge too?

4 comments:

Linanna DESIGNS said...

Shary
I absolutely love this distressed look, its so striking. I've finally posted my blog candy so don't forget to enter. hugs Linda x

Anonymous said...

j'adore ta carte. j'ai fashé dessus quand je l'ai vue !

Heidi said...

Shary you did a beautiful job on this one- you are definately creative my friend!
Heidi

Annie said...

it's a fab card Shary, love the torn vellum and all the distress inks. annie x