Let's do distress - with blue!

Welcome to my first post of the day - there is another in a few hours. We have a new challenge at A Vintage Journey where we are doing - Monochromatic. Well I decided to do Distress Monochromatic!

It has been a while since I have done a tag and had a good distress play - so when I went to a crop recently I just took everything blue. I was playing around - there are actually 5 tags - I will share the other 2 later. As I was getting messy I scribbled on the back what I had done and as I knew I was going to mount them I recorded the details when I got home - so here is a little chart. This is just for the backgrounds, not the embellishing.

I also took to the crop a load of scraps lying around my desk - things I had stamped or die cut and not used. As long as they could be made blue I wanted to use them.

I added some cogs, die cut letters, butterfly and game spinner.

I added fabulous wildflower die cuts - after painting with distress paints, a little wooden butterfly, some tissue tape and sentiment.

I stamped on this one as it didn't have texture paste and added some more wildflowers and the travelling bird from one of Tim's older stamp sets.

Here is the framed version:

Do check out the rest of the creations on show over at A Vintage Journey today and come and join us with our Monochromatic challenge.

I would like to enter the following:
July challenge at Craft stamper.
Simon Says Stamp - Tic Tac Toe (Spray Stencil Stamp)

Nikki

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Take three things....

Today is the start of a new challenge at A Vintage Journey - chosen and hosted my Annie of Curious Crafty Treasures.

It is Tic Tac Toe - so lots of flexibility to be creative!

I chose the line including die cuts, stains and twine. I started by taking some distress stains and used Tim's marbling technique - I used Seedless preserves, picket fence and mowed lawn. Once dry I added a little mustard seed ink.

I cut one of the flowers from tattered florals out of cardboard and then added my twine. (Fiddly and messy!)  I lightly covered it with picket fence distress stain. The smaller twine flowers were just made by hand.

I framed the flowers using the postage stamp die cut from Kraft Core and sanded back.

For my background I used seedless preserves distress stain to stencil onto some coloured cardstock.

A sentiment from my stash and some distressing completed the card.

There is some wonderful inspiration over at A Vintage Journey - please do hop over and take a peek.

I would like to enter:
Craft Hoarders Anonymous - Choose your challenge
(Ink, Twine, Die Cutting, Sanding, Buttons)
Frilly and Funkie - Valen-Twine

Have a lovely day and thanks for stopping by.

Nikki

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Time to Stain It

It is time for a new challenge at A Vintage Journey and the theme this time is chosen by the wonderful Jenny who has selected 'Just Stain It'. I have created this montage of photos to go through my process.

1. I started by adding distress stains to my craft sheet - gathered twigs, black soot and picket fence. I swooshed my tags through it until I was happy and then let it dry. Once dry I added some distress inks too - black soot, vintage photo and pumice stone.
2. I added some remnant rubs and tissue tape.
3/4. Next I embossed the tag with the clocks texture fade and highlighted areas with the same DP's as above.
5. Happy with my tags I started work on my die cuts.
6. As step 1 above I added some distress stains to my craft sheet and spritzed with water.
7. I lightly dipped my clocks (Heartfelt creations stamps and die) into the stain - trying to only partially pick up colour. I wanted them stained and aged - not completely coloured.
8. For the grungeboard arrows and chipboard text I used the stain directly from the pot.

That is just about it - of course there was a bit of inking edges etc and I also took my water brush and some stain to highlight the clock cut from Tim's paper.

Here are a few close ups:

Do hop over to A Vintage Journey to see what the rest of the Design Team have stained for this challenge!

Thanks for looking

Nikki

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