Raise the Bar - Challenge#8

It's the end of another week, so it's time for another Raise the Bar Challenge, can you believe we're onto challenge #8 already.  So for this weeks challenge...

NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH!
To honor this great celebration in March, use a BOOK somewhere in your card/project and commemorate all of our achievments in our lives.
Now this may sound 'different' and you may not think you have a book image, but search your stash and you'll be surprised at what you discover!

 

I had great fun looking through my stamps to find one i could use for this weeks challenge; and i came across this little beauty, it's Wendy from the 'Never Ever' set by The Greeting Farm.

I stamped Wendy onto watercolour paper using Black Soot Distress Ink, and then i embossed her with fine detail clear embossing powder.  I then sprayed the image with water, on the front and back (spraying on the back stops your paper curling) and set about creating my background, I misted my watercolours and then just added a little colour to the paper, spreading it around to create a nice soft background.  I left my image to dry over night, and then set about choosing my papers.

I found these lovely papers in a RAK envelope i receieved a while ago, and thought they were perfect for this image, unfortunately i don't know what make they are.  I decided to create a round focal point for my card, so i got a couple of my circle nesties out, and used them as templates, cutting the circles out with a craft knife.  I knew i wanted to distress the edges of my circles, so thought a hand cut circle would work better, and it was nice and quick too.  

I then finished colouring my image, using my paper choice as my inspiration for the colour of Wendy's outfit.  I kept the watercolour paper dry this time, and just applied water to my paints, giving me nice strong colours.  I'm really glad i embossed my image, as it made is so much easier to control the paint, no unwanted blending.

For the layout of my card, I just played around with the papers until i was happy with how they worked together.  I decided to add a scallopped punch border in the background, mainly to get a bit more light in the card, and to separate the papers. I then distressed the edges of all of my papers, before sticking them all down, i stuck all the layers flat apart from the main image which i used foam pads on, just to give a little more dimension.

My sentiment comes from the 'Sassy Sentiments' set by MFT.  I love clear acrylic sentiment stamps, as they are so flexible, this one i curved to go on my background circle. 

To finish my card i layered some Prima flowers, and added a pearl centre, and some leaves, to create a nice little corner detail.

I had great fun with challenge, once i got over the inital problem of 'Do i have a stamp with a book in it?'; It was fun looking through my stamp collection, amazing what you find that you've forgotten about, so glad i rediscovered this pretty image.

I can't wait to see what wonderful creations will be made for this challenge, hope you have time to play.

Thank you for visiting

Suzi

xxx