coloured crackle at CC3

Hello Lovelies! I had a good day yesterday at the hospital - Shaun's breathing is doing really well - he's managing on a lower level on the vent and has his cuff down on his tracheostomy all the time - he even tried a tracy mask a couple of times for short times and did very well. Onwards Shaun! His kidneys still aren't working by themselves yet though and he's experiencing a lot of nausea - but despite this I feel things are going in the right direction.

I had a great time in the attic on Sunday night and I managed to make my entry for the current challenge for the Compendium-of-curiosities-3-challenge-14 - coloured crackle. I followed the technique outlined on page 53 of the book - I won't go into that here but everything else I will! There are two prizes for the challenge - the first is a selection of goodies from Tim and Mario and the second is a $25 voucher for the thefunkiejunkie boutique.

Here's what I made - I'm rather pleased!

The background was made using distress stains and ink. I also used layering stencils from Tim Holtz. The iceskate die is a bigz die from TH (Sizzix) - Its a fabulous die - you'll be seeing a lot more of this I think. The sprig is also a TH die - its a thinlets die though and comes in a set of four dies. The ornate frame at the top is a piece of TH ideology. 

I would like to enter this into compendium-of-curiosities-3-challenge-14.

Hope you all have a good Tuesday! Thanks for dropping by!

Hugs

Rachel xx