Grungy Monday 39, oops read time wrong!

It's Sunday night at 9:30 pm CST which is an half an hour late to enter this piece of art for the #39 challenge.  I thought the deadline was 8pm PST but Linda is in MST time so I'm late!  Oh well, I'll still link everything and give you the links to the Studio L3 Challenge and to Tim's technique.  I bet I remember next time!! 

I used a piece of paper 6x6 from Tim's Lost and Found paper stash for the background.  I used a piece of Glossy Paper, cut to 4.25 x 5.50 to create the "plaid" piece which is the technique featured for this challenge.  It is from Tim's 12 days of Christmas 2009 Day 3 and this was my first attempt.  It was fun but since I had a limited palette of 5 different Alcohol inks my range of colors were very close.  There is a lighter green in there and a slate but they're hard to see in the picture.

I used stamps out of two of Tim's collections, City Central and Artful Things, inking them with Jet Black StazOn ink.  I added a ticket, inked with Soot Black ink, from Tim's Adage collection, using one of the Mini Paper Clips.  I used 6 solid head brads to attach the plaid paper to the background paper.

I cut a black flourish using my Big Shot and the Elegant Flourishes die, then added two Prima petals that I inked with Walnut Stain distress ink.

That's it, actually pretty easy and quick for it's size.  As usual I add all the links to the products I used that will take you directly to Simon Says Stamp Storefront great place to shop online!

Products I used:

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A New Year! (a week late!! LOL)

It's already the 7th of January 2012 and I've missed one of my "resolutions" by a mile!  I was going to try to blog daily but as you can see it just hasn't happened!  I'm all for forgiveness of thy self so I won't spend time beating myself up for that and just move on to hoping for weekly updates!  It's not like I'm so busy these days, being out of work for over 14 months is taking it's tole on my mind, body and spirit but I've decided in this new year I'm going to focus on the positive and try not to worry about the rest.  So on that note I have finally listed items in my Etsy shop, created a "like" page on Facebook for Pansy Cottage Creations and am working my way through a pile of cards to photograph for listing.   I'll be previewing some of the cards here and you can see some of them on my side bar for my Etsy shop. The two cards above are my first listings because I had pictures of them already and they are my favorites right now.  I used a couple of techniques on these cards, first stamping the images with brown Staz On ink so I could color in some of the images.  If you use regular Stampin' UP inks they are water based and may run when you use other colors on them.  I've also used a piece of paper out of an old botanical book on the Thank You card, tearing it and inking the edges.  I LOVE books and have always had a great respect for them, so tearing them up had not been in my DNA.  BUT that has all changed since seeing lots of books being used for so many creative items.  I also happened upon the local library's book sale, it was actually officially over but they were clearing out the leftovers for $1 or $2 dollars.  It was kind of like all those Christmas trees left on the lot December 24th, I just couldn't bear to not purchase a couple to use in my crafts.  Actually I would have taken a bunch but could not justify $50 worth of $1 books to myself or the hubby!  So if you have an old set of encyclopedias or just old books in general that are gathering dust, see if you can bear using them in a craft or card project.  They are great for backgrounds on canvas or scrapbook pages, but with those I'd use the Archiving Mist to make sure the acid doesn't hurt your pages.  I will be posting more cards in the next few days as I get the photos of them.  I will also have a post tomorrow about an exciting workshop I'm participating in.