Taheerah Atchia

Hey everyone!

I’m back quickly tonight to post a card for the Make It Mondays Challenge.

This week’s challenge is to feature distressed edges on a card.  This ties in so well with my vintage kick so I had to play along at least one!  Here’s what I came up with:

I’m cheating a little as I created this card sometime towards the end of last year but just never got around to posting it!  But I think it fits, and hopefully I will get to create more for this challenge too!

I started with a Terracotta Tile card base.  The main panel is Rustic Cream cardstock, and the edges were distressed with my Heidi Swapp Paper Distresser, before inking into the edges with VintageTouch Tea Dye Duo.  I love doing this to distressed edges to just highlight them a bit more.

The panel was stamped with Background Basics: Text Style II with CTMH Bamboo, CTMH Buttercup and Terracotta Tile inks.  I added a lace detail strip from an ‘other company’ stamp set with CTMH Bamboo and Terracotta Tile inks, then swiped Tea Dye Duo over the Terracotta Tile part to really smoosh the design.

I then added the image from Year of Flowers: Morning Glories using the CTMH Bamboo ink.  I added the flourishes from Embellishments using New Leaf ink.  I then stamped the flowers from the same set onto Harvest Gold cardstock using Scarlet Jewel ink and overstamped the flourishes using Orange Zest ink.  The flowers were cut out and adhered over the original image using varying levels of Pinflair Glue Gel.

The frame was created using the Mat Stack 4 and Fillable Frames #8 dies using Harvest Gold cardstock, before overstamping the flourish from Embellishments using Scarlet Jewel inks and edging  with Orange Zest, Terracotta Tile and Scarlet Jewel inks.  I ‘dirtied’ a piece of New Leaf satin ribbon using Terracotta Tile and Orange Zest inks before tying it to the frame in a bow.  The frame was adhered with quite a bit of depth off the base using more Pinflair.  I finished the design off with a few brown KaiserCraft rhinestones.

So there you have it!  Quite an unusual colour combo for me but I think it works!  I originally made this for the Embellish Magazine Challenge when the theme was these colours plus vintage – a long time ago!  I’d love to know what you think of this creation.  Thanks for stopping by!