Thursday, August 05, 2010

Counting Rainbows

So Lili Of The Valley had a 50p sale on their die cuts and as my colouring in pretty much sucks, I thought I'd take advantage... and yep u guessed it, they aint seen the light of day since I opened the envelope! Oh well! I also bought this lil fella cos he's just so darn cute but they sell their stamps unmounted and I don't own ne U-mount  - or in fact even know how to use it! - so after sitting unopened on my shelf for a while I finally took the plunge and tried to spray mount him to various surfaces! ....It didn't really work but along the way I had the bright idea of stamping him onto another potential I'd nabbed for my advertures in Kraft-land, this time the inside of a 100% recycled decaf t-bag box (does that make it 200% recycled now?) and keeping the image to sepia tones. I tried the whole painting with Distress Inks thing but once it dried u could barely see it so I took all the shades of brown out of my pro-markers and kinda made it up as I went along.

Seein as its a Lili image I thought I'd try n squeeze it in for their challenge... and promptly missed the deadline! Luckily I intended to enter it for the Shabby Tea Room too, hence the inclusion of actual colour as this week is Blue, Cream & Brown (hope it fits!).

7 comments:

  1. Awww what a cute Lili image, he reminds me of my brother as a little boy! Thanks so much for playing along in the Tea Room this week!

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  2. So adorable ... I {heart} the sentiment you used and how clever to have created it with a label maker!! Thanks for sharing with us in the Tea Room :)

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  3. Fab card, such a cute image, love the muted colours
    Anne xx

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  4. Jody this is a fab card...........your mojo has returned...yayyyy!

    What a cute little boy and the colours are fab.

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  5. Cute card - and great image! Fun layout! Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR! :)

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  6. Good for you for hanging in there and getting that sweet image stamped and colored! It was worth the effort because this is adorable! Love the recycling and adore all the browns. Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR.

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  7. I do love this card - and such a good sentiment too.

    :)

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