It's Tea Time

 

Over at The Outlawz there is a Progressive Freebie challenge where if you use the previous month's image you get the next months to play with. This time we got an amazing full kit from The Paper Shelter called It's Tea Time!  It comes with the uncoloured image, the coloured one, a background paper and a complete digital card.

I have to be honest when I saw it I was a bit stumped as I don't really do Steampunk so wasn't entirely sure what to do with it. I did however know that I wanted to use the sentiment that I have which was a freebie from Tlc Creations.

There are challenges for every day of the week at The Outlawz and this card actually almost made itself from those. The Colour challenge is to use Kraft plus 2 colours and make up your own twist. I love using blue and brown as a colour scheme and my twist was to use a previously un-inked rubber stamp.

The image was coloured with Promarkers in different shades of blue & brown only adding a fleshtone as an extra colour. I distressed the edges with a inkpad, added a few gems and a heart gem 'tattoo' on her shoulder.

I used the Wednesday sketch for the layout. The base of the card is a sheet of A4 brown card. I then added a layer of plain blue. 

The next layer is Kraft card and on this I have used a rubber stamp I have had for at least 8 years and never used. It came in a craft back from Papermania and is about 4" square. I have never been all that great at stamping but I invested in a Tim Holtz stamping platform and by golly that is a game changer. I can get really good results now. Some of the best money I have spent on crafty stuff. I used the Tea Dye Distress Ink to stamp the image and then used Walnut Stain to darken the edges and grunge it up a bit. I used a messy mat for this that came with some red sticky tape I bought a while ago. I have never used it before and have to say it made it so easy to do the blending as I could put the colour on the mat and use a lighter touch with the blending brush. 

The sentiment has been distressed with the Tea Dye inkpad and matted onto blue card. I added a pre-printed die cut pocket watch from my stash and a rub-on which was added onto brown card and then fussy cut. These are both mounted onto thin 3d foam pads.

As I said it is very different from my usual style of card but that is the great beauty of progressive freebie challenges. You use the image you are given and often it pulls you out of your comfort zone and encourages you to be more creative.

Card Details -

 

Size - A5

Image - It's Tea Time! by The Paper Shelter

Sentiment - Previous freebie from Tlc Creations

Rubber Stamp - Beautiful Time Pieces by Papermania

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Distress Ink Pads

Embellishments - Self Adhesive gems, Rub-on from Royal Langnickel

 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

 

 

• 613 Avenue Create – #236 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time To Craft - #122 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time To Craft Extra – Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #8 Anything Goes
• Arty Divas - #28 Anything Goes
• Aud Sentiments  – #258 Anything Goes
• CD Sunday Plus - # 42 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - # 8 Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #32 Anything Goes
• Craft Rocket Challenge - #73 Birthdays
• Crafting Happiness - #62 Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments Designs – Anything Goes
• Creatalicious Challenges - #193 Anything Goes
• Creativ Fusion Arts & Crafts - #20 Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - #191 Anything Goes
• Creative Moments - #197 Anything Goes
• Cupcake Inspirations - #CIC500 – Birthday Creations
• Digi Choosday - #33 Anything Goes
• Dragonfly Dreams – Anything Goes
• Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday – Something Beginning with B (Blue, Brown, Bling, Birthday)
• Everybody Art – #473 Anything Goes
• Gem of A Challenge - #17 Anything Goes
• Jan’s Digi Stamps - Anything Goes
• Just Us Girls - #550 Coffee Image ( drinking tea, colours of blue & brown)
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #140 Anything Goes
• Not Just Cards - Anything Goes
• Outlawz Progressive Freebie - August Image
• Outlawz Sketch Wednesday - Layout of Card
• Paper Shelter - #437 Punches or Dies (Bottom clock is a die cut, not sure if it counts but it is a store image;) )
• Pearly Sparkles - #54 Anything Goes
• Penny’s Challenge - #478 Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - #33 Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp Monday – Grunge It Up
• The Creative Crafters - #31 Anything Goes
• Through The Purple Haze - #170 Anything Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #452-453 Anything Goes
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - #08 Anything Goes