Sunday 4 November 2012

Musical Stampings

Hello all, well after a week off for me from Fashionable Stamping, it’s my first time to choose the theme for our fortnightly challenge – and I've picked musical. As always we need to see some stamping on your entry  -  DIGI stamps are NOT allowed. Our sponsor Marina from Cottage Crafts is allowing the winner to choose anything from her shop up to the value of €7 + postage and packing.  I've combined music with Christmas to try and get some of my Christmas cards made as I'm not getting on very well with them !
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I used distress inks, masks and stamps to create a background and then layered on some Christmas Carol manuscript, die cuts and scraps of embossed glassine paper. I added aged ivory embossing enamel to the corners and then wished I hadn't – but it was too late by then and I didn't have time to start again! Esther18
The main image is a Le Blanche stamp (one of a set of four I got from E-Bay!) I’ve again coloured with Distress inks and then used Picket fence distress marker to highlight before adding some glitter to the edges.
I hope you join us for a fortnight of musical creativity and look forward to visiting your blogs. Don’t forget to visit my team mates for some glorious inspiration! Esther xx
I’m sharing my card here also -

23 comments:

  1. A fabulous challenge and a wonderful card Esther. You and me both chose La Blanche and Christmas lol.
    Enjoy your Sunday.
    hugs {brenda} xox

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  2. great creation
    thanks for joining us at Crafty Ribbons this fortnight
    hugs kelly

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  3. Your lovely creation has got a really ethereal feel to it Esther and I think the colours used chosen work perfectly.

    Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, hope your weather's a bit brighter than ours,it's coming down in bucketloads.

    B x

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  4. Hi there; your vintage blog and vintage card for our challenge are bort great! Thanks for participating in our challenge at Crafty Ribbons,

    Charlotta / La Vikinga

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  5. How beautiful and vintage looking is your card, love the use of the picket fence and the delicate sparkles. xx

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  6. A wonderful card with great layers. Fantastic color scheme.

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  7. Gorgeous card, love the backgrounds as well. Thanks for a super challenge theme.
    Yvonne

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  8. I love the subtle colours on your main image and the layered effect background.

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  9. I like the enameled corners it gives some great texture. xx

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  10. Beautiful card and images! Love the layers and the embossed corners! Great theme you chose! Happy Sunday!

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  11. Love the vintagey feel Esther. The background layering looks so different and amazing! I could look at this for ages.
    Dot x

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  12. This is beautiful Esther. Love the gorgeous image and all the textures (including those corners lol) and really enjoyed your challenge theme.
    Hugs, Fliss xx

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  13. Gorgeous card, love the shabby chic look of it. Thanks for sharing with us at Crafty Ribbons in our Christmas challenge.
    hugs
    Dawn xx

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  14. Hi Esther, Love the vintage feel to this card, and I think the embossed corners look fabulous and give great texture.
    Avril xx

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  15. Beautifully composed Esther! The Holidays are coming fast. Have a great week. Best, Yvonne

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  16. A fabulous card Esther, great colours and design.
    xxx Hazel.

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  17. This is lovely Esther, I'm addicted to this shabby embossing enamel, it's beautiful, and I love the highlighting with the picket fence.

    Maria xxxxx

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  18. Gorgeous - love the vintage sepia tones of the central image, but then the blast of colour from the background is like the trumpets really resounding! Fab challenge - thank you for the theme and the inspiration!
    Alison x

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  19. I love these stamps and how you have used them. Thank you for entering into the Happy daze challenge this month. x

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  20. Esther, your work continues to inspire, please come over to my blog, I have a little surprise for you.

    Cheers,
    Kasey ~ in Oz

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  21. Hi Esther such a creative piece, so very elegant and peaceful looking with beautiful colour tones.

    Hugs Shirkley x x

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  22. Can you believe it can't even spell my own name, me thinks it looks better than the normal spelling.

    Hugs Me x x (didn't like to try another attempt at writing it lol).

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  23. Hi Esther,
    Gorgeous image & card. I think the embossed corners look great! Love your vintage blog background. Thanks for joining LLC for our Christmas challenge in November and sorry about my late visit!

    Hugz,
    Sandy

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