I think all women have a certain elegance…

I’m sharing a card I made using 40’s Fashion from Saturated Canary.

The layout of my card follows the current sketch at the Noor! Design FB challenge group, where you also need to use the specified die, which I fortunately had in my stash.  I loved the sketch but wasn’t too sure where I wanted to go with it so I looked to challenges for inspiration.

The picture of lots of lovely golden brown cookies over at If You Give a Crafter a Cookie inspired my colour choice for the monochromatic challenge at A Vintage Journey.  I wasn’t too sure about the two thin horizontal bits until I saw the Fussy and Fancy theme was flowers and lace.  I had the flowers so used lace for the horizontal bits with a second layer of trim and then added in some Prills for added interest and to tie back to the brown of my monochrome colour scheme.

I wondered how I was going to keep with all brown for the flowers until I saw at Noor! Design UK they are looking for chippies.  Raiding my very large chippie collection I found an old Leaky Shed one with flowers, leaves and swirls.  I cut this up and added Vintage Photo Distress Embossing Powder to make it brown then coloured up some flowers brown and added them on top.

This card is going out to a colleague who is turning 40.  I couldn’t find anything in my stash to make the 40 from but wanted to use one of the Typo Zippers I had.  So I scrubbed the word off of it using alcohol and then added the 40 with a Remnant Rub.  I did up the sentiment on my computer and then die cut it as the last element and to further to personalise my card.

Ingredients:

Copics

E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, E47, E49

Chalks & Powders etc

PanPastel ~ Red Iron Oxide Extra Dark

Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder ~ Vintage Photo

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Noor! Design Die ~ 6002/0261 Fleur de Lys 1, 6002/0356 Frame & 3 corners & 6002/0285 Tag 2

Spellbinders Nestabilities Die ~ S4-190 Labels Four

Embellishments

I Am Roses ~ Mini Roses (R2-15)

Leaky Shed Studio ~ Chippie (cut into three parts)

Petaloo Darjeeling Collection ~ Dahlias Teastained Cream

Petaloo The Penny Lane Collection ~ Forget Me Nots Antique Beige

Prills Mini ~ Espress-O-Yourself

Prima Ingvild Bolme Junkyard Findings ~ Typo Zippers

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Remnant Rubs ~ Numbers

Inks & Paints etc

Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Caramel

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye & Vintage Photo

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Vintage Photo

Papers

Bazzill Orange Peel ~ Jarra

Kaisercraft Art of Life ~ Creative

Prima Time Traveler’s Memories ~ Tickets Only

Riddersholm Fall Flea Market ~ Vintage Junk

Ribbons & Trims etc

Live and Love Crafts Lace ~ Pearl with Beads & Reinette Champagne

Stamps

Saturated Canary ~ 40 and 50’s Fashion Decades (40’s fashion used)

Challenges

A Vintage Journey ~ Monochromatic

Fussy and Fancy #167 ~ Flowers and Lace

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #47 ~ Anything goes

Noor! Design #3 ~ Sketch & 6002/0356 Frame & 3 corners

Noor! Design UK #20 ~ Anything goes with option of chipboard

Thanks for stopping by!