Vintage or Shabby Chic at Sweet Stampin'

As we approach a new month, it's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin'.  This time we'd like to you create a vintage or shabby chic design.

I used to use my Magnolia stamps all the time so it's nice to play with them once again.

I still have some of the Maja Designs paper that I once collected obsessively, so I layered this onto some beige Bazzill cardstock cut with Go Create shaped dies.

Tilda was coloured with  Copics and mounted onto a couple of tattered doilies.  All of the cardstock edges were lightly distressed and given a dab of Antique Linen distress ink.  I added a few flowers and stems from my stash together with a couple of clear droplets to finish it all off.

Do check out the designs the Sweeties have made to inspire you here.

Have a lovely weekend.

Tracey xx

Use Numbers at Sweet Stampin'

At Sweet Stampin' this fortnight we'd like you to use numbers in your design.

For my DT card I wanted to use lots of gold and opted to stamp my background and use die cut numbers.

I stamped my much loved Pinkfresh Studio background and heat embossed in gold on white cardstock.  I had a pre-cut A2 size piece of gold card in my scrap box so I used this as a mat for the stamped image.

I cut 3 numbers in white and layered them together before adding a top layer cut in gold.  I used liquid glue to make sure the layers stayed stuck but had a bit of an ooze-based disaster and ended up having to add another gold layer on top.  At least there's plenty of dimension, I suppose 😂.   

Taking the photo proved tricky as the gold card is very shiny, although it looks a bit flat and tarnished here!

Why not hop over to the Sweet Stampin' challenge blog to check out the fab designs the Sweeties have made to inspire you?  Hope you can play along!

Tracey xx