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I am mother to four and my wonderful dil Lisa recently blessed us with our first grandchild. I share my life with my indulgent husband, and my love of hobbies

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Pixie Cottage dt

We have a new challenge for you at The Pixie cottage and by now i'm sure you know that you can either follow the sketch, or the theme.  This weeks theme is to use metal on your project and here's the sketch:
for my card i am using Simply the best by Artish available in the store.  Now those of you that follow my blog know by now that i am not the CAS type, but i didnt want to detract too much from the beauty of this beautiful rose and wanted to highlight her to the best of my limited CAS ability.

I also didnt have any paper that i thought would be good or this particular image so i made my own using stamps that i have had in my stash forever.  I had so much fun using my embossing powders and stash that hasnt seent he light of day for so long all the little bottles had a film of dust on them.  I stamped all over my cardstock using versafine clear embossing pad and then used an embossing powder that has a shimmer in it, for my background.  Then on the white i used copper embossing powder.  I had these metal corners and they were the wrong color so i used more copper embossing powder on those to change the color.  I stamped my image three times and colored them with copics and then layered them onto my focal image to give them a real pop! 

Not sure if you can see all the details on these photos.  Please pop past the Pixie cottage challenge blog and see what the other ladies have to inspire you, and have a great crafting week.
smiles
Paola

12 comments:

  1. OMG hun, this is simply stunning! Amazing colour work on the rose and I love all your background detail. Beautiful. Hugs, Sxx

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  2. That's a gorgeous card Paola! Love the details you have used!!
    Husg Kristel

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  4. Made a little mistake in my first comment.
    So second chance!!
    Wow Paola, your card is so beautiful.
    How you coloured that Rose and together with the layering, that's amazing girl!!!

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  5. oh totally love what you have done this week,again hun totaly brilliant hugs cheryl xxxx

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  6. LOVE that you made your own paper! LOVE even more how you colored my Rose...WOW...you are simply the best! :)

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  7. Quite stunning. Love how you encorporated the metal.
    Hugs
    Tanya

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  8. I just love all the embossing on this one. Your coloring of the rose is so pretty. I've been playing with my presents from you! Woohoo love them!

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  9. This came together stunningly! The copper accents of your embossing with the corner adorner are the perfect accents for your beautifully colored and layered rose. An amazing card my dear!
    Hugs,
    Barb

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  10. So beautiful!! Love the embossing, so perfect with the rose. You did a fab job coloring the rose!!

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  11. Wow your rose card is amazing. I love the corners as well as your wonderful shading and coloring. What a great take on the sketch challenge this week!
    Denise

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smiles
Paola