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Thursday 23 March 2017

Tim's feminine side

Hello there!  How are you? I hope you are well and happy. Today I have a post on the Countryview Challenges blog. The theme for the challenge this month is 'inspired by Tim Holtz'. This time I have decided to work with Tims more feminine side and have made a card for mothers day on Sunday. I am sure my mum won't see this as we are in transit just now and I suspect computers won't be on her mind when we reach our destination! So I am safe showing it here!


I have used distress inks in a variety of colours (ripe persimmon, dried marigold, wild honey, ) and two of the new stencils from Tim Holtz plus the flowers and dies to cut them. Here's my step by step....


Here I used the distress inks to create a base background and added water by spritzing and flicking.


Next I added abandoned carol through  the first layering stencil ....ornate.


and then through the next layering stencil ...floral.


Next I cut the flowers and stalks using thinlet dies. Then I stamped and coloured them using distress inks and the stampers-anonymous-tim-holtz-stamp-set---flower-garden-.


I then glued the flowers on and added the words.

I do hope you can join our challenge which you can link up to here.

Have a great day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

15 comments:

  1. Beautiful card Rachel and fabulous background-safe journey
    Carol x

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  2. Wow a stunning card Rachel, I love the colours. I didn't realise that you could get the dies to match these stamps.

    Sue xx

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  3. This is stunning Rachel, such a gorgeous background and pretty flowers.
    Pauline - Crafting with Cotnob
    x

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  4. This is fabulous Rachel, I love the gorgeous colours and pretty flowers.
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  5. Love the layering of the background Rachel, the whole piece gels together so well. Beautiful! X

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  6. Rachel, your Mum's card is absolutely stunning! Love the gorgeous colours! Hugs, Anne xx

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  7. Absolutely gorgeous Rachel, love the vivid colours and super design, love the flower dies they are so pretty, Kate x

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  8. So beautiful. I love the bright sunny colours you have used. Hugs Mrs A.

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  9. More stunning cards Rachel gorgeous colours and design. Marlene

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  10. More stunning cards Rachel gorgeous colours and design. Marlene

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  11. Beautiful card Rachel, just love the design and fabulous colours xxx

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  12. Absolutely love your card! Have a wonderful time. Barbxx

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  13. Oh this is gorgeous Rachel, I'm sure your mum will love it. I hope you all have the most fabulous time, lots of love xxx

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  14. Beautiful card, Rachel! I love the background! Have a wonderful sunday.
    xxx Evelyn

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  15. Such a lovely card Rachel, your Mum will love these gorgeous bright colours xxx

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