I have had a lovely few days - but have not produced much in the way of crafty stuff. My life long friend Lesley took me out to lunch on Wednesday for my birthday. We met at 12 noon and did not leave the pub until 4.15 - just a lovely afternoon of girly laughter and catching up. Very little drinking though as we both had to drive home as we met halfway. On Thursday my lovely OH took me out for afternoon tea with champagne at the most wonderful hotel, Four Seasons at Dogmersfield, which is not too far from us. A beautiful manor house set in the most beautiful parkland.
Anyway - on to my DT entry for the One Stop Craft Challenge - and this week the theme has been chosen by the very talented Sharon. Check out the OSCC blog for all the team's entries, and Sharon's blog to see her wonderful work.
My DT piece is a canvas that I started at a class at LB Crafts, and have recently finished.
The canvas is painted with Kaisercraft Acrylic paint in two shades, with some distress ink wiped over as well, and then overstamped in black archival ink with a swirl. The square embellishments in the middle are made by embossing copper colour metal usingTen Second Studio molds. These are then brushed over with some black paint to distress them. The cage - I am sure lots of people will recognise - as one of Tim Holtz's dies. This has also been through an embossing folder. The leaves are stamped, and cut out of the metal, and the flowers made with a die - I thnk Sizzix - but cannot be sure. The little copper coloured flowers were horrible sequins, but a little Inka Gold paint goes a long way to transforming them, and then I have added tiny black crystals to the centres.
I have shown you a little more detail below.
I am entering this for the following challenges:
Stampin' for the weekend #45 - Anything goes
Paper Cutz Challenge #55 - Anything goes
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