Go Your Own Way

Hello.  Welcome.  Friday again!  Where does the week go?  Must admit I have been crazy busy doing stuff much less fun than craft, but have grabbed a few minutes, OK, maybe an hour, to make a little something.  This one kinda built itself.  Wouldn't that be nice if they all built themselves!!  Then I could be sitting out in the sun, sipping a long cool drink with an umbrella in it.  Alas, I was needed for clipping and sticking, and I'm still not sure it doesn't need a tiger........

This is my base card.  I'm going with the Rubber Dance challenge colours of cinnamon brown, forget me not blue and antique white.  This is my F-m-n blue card base.  I ran outside and checked with the plant and IRL it's pretty close.  But when I laid my cinnamon layer on it was too abrupt so I hit the blue with some gesso.  Oh, now it looks like sky.....

So here's my cinnamon layer.  I made this by embossing a piece of handmade off white paper with Sizzix Bricked embossing folder.  Then I coloured with distress inks, frayed burlap, ripe persimmon and old paper.  I just kept adding til it looked right.  Then I cut with a Spelbinders border die.  

It looked like sky behind an ornamental wall so I used Stamplorations Some Birds stencil and sponged white acrylic.  

I added a piece of lace on the rhs and a piece of string on the lhs.  I stamped the sentiment from Marks Finest Papers Tiger set and embossed with white powder.  I also added some white embossing powder along the hanging wall.  As I said, there might have been a tiger but he seems to have wandered off....  

Joining the fun at
Speedy Fox and Friends Challenge 269 - Cut Away Embossing
Rubber Dance July Challenge
We Love 2 Create Challenge 14 - Anything Mixed Media 
That Craft Place Challenge - Anything Goes Mixed Media 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz