Celebration Hop: Celebrate your day....

Hello my fellow crafters and friends. Over at TTCRD blog there is a celebration blog hop which will be running for the whole month of November.This is in celebration of the 1 year anniversary since Cara Malmrose took over the running of TTCRD blog and magazine. Every Sunday there will be a new hop starting, and there are 4 prizes up for grabs over at TTCRD site.

Winners will be selected weekly from the Main blog post and announced on Monday. 

For a chance at winning the prizes you must

1. Comment on all the blogs

2. Be a follower of TTCRD blog

3. You MUST leave your blog address, name and email address in Mr. Linky at TTCRD!

Below is a list of all the sponsors and prizes available for this week starting on 8th Nov and running through the 14th Nov:

DigiStamps4Joy - PRIZE: $10 is digistamps (winner choice) 

Whimsy Stamps - PRIZE: $20.00 Gift certificate

Rick St. Dennis - PRIZE: 2 single images of choice

The Stamping Boutique / Glitterbabes - PRIZE: 2 images of choice 

PLEASE USE BOTH OF THESE BADGES

Below is a list of all the blogs you need to visit and comment on:

Willeke

Kamila

Stacey

Therese - you are here

Mary

Cara

Sandra

DigiStamps4Joy- SPONSOR

TTCRD BLOG

I am also offering some blog candy for whoever becomes a follower of my blog and comments. It is a large A4 embossing folder by Sue Wilson: pinpoint checkerboard

 

So without further ado let's get onto today's card. Today I have a masculine card for you. It is just one stamp but some careful shading makes it look as if there is a lot of masking and stamping.

It also has a sneaky peek of the sentiment dies that will be featured on Hochanda on the 13th and 14th of November as part of their One day Special.

So I stamped the A6 stamp on a piece of white stamping card in potting soil archival ink.

I then inked the whole piece with old paper distress ink to age it. I then started adding shading with antique linen, vintage photo, gathered twigs and walnut stain. I id same with little postcards, working separately on each.

To add the extra shadow around the postcards, pen and ink I went in with spectrum noir pencils. I used a few dark browns and in the end added a bit of black. This makes everything 'jump' off the page and looks dimensional. 

I find this quite cool as in reality it is flat.

I also added some glaze with a clear sakura pen on ink bottle and pen nib. 

When it was all dry i distressed around the edge and added some matting and layering.

Finally I die cut sentiment from chestnut card. Celebrate is a die on its own. Day is part of Wedding Day and the your is an amalgam. You comes from the Thinking of you die and I cut an r out of celebrate and glued together.

I finished it off with some pearls.

So I hope you enjoyed that process and I do hope to see you here and over the other blogs. The more you comment the higher your chances of winning.

Hop along, Theresa xx.