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Saturday 26 April 2014

CC3C-1


The Compendium of Curiosities Vol 3 Challenge has now began, otherwise known as CC3C.
The lovely Linda Ledbetter and her cute distressing assistant Violet, over at Studio L3 have set us all off on another wonderful journey dipping into Tim Holtz latest publication. The journey will continue until we've completed all of the techniques in the book, the techniques are going to be  randomly selected every fortnight. Linda has a wonderful crew sharing their masterpieces too, so do go and check them all out. 
Tim and Mario have sent Linda, prizes for the challenge, those guys are the best!
For the first challenge the fabulously generous people over at Inspiration Emporium are offering a $50 prize! 
In respect to Tim please don't ask for the technique used; you need to get your own copy :-)

Any way onto my card, yes I've decided to make some cards for this challenge as I always seem to be running out of them. 
The base of the card has been stamped with Tim's chickenwire stamp using a selection of distress inks, then a little blending of broken china and stormy skies. The distress paints  that I used to create the technique (Paint Marbling pg.43) where Mustard Seed, Evergreen Bough, Crushed Olive and Salty Ocean, plus Broken China and Faded Jeans distress inks. I then over stamped using my favourite (at the moment) stamp set - Bird Feather and a sentiment stamp; I used a variety of distress markers to colour the stamps in, and also used the birds wing tips to create extra branches. Finally I distressed the edges of a Tim Holtz Kraft core and the top layer, added a distress inked Adage ticket and attached a distress painted word stick.

Please go over to Linda's Blog to find out how you can join in the fun.


Until next time
Karin x

17 comments:

Ruby Craft said...

Looks like you are the first to post on the CC3C! Beautiful card!

Helen said...

Great card, well done on getting this done so fast!

Zuzu's Blog said...

what a gorgeous card Karin. i love the intensity of colour.

Unknown said...

Beautiful Colors and theme... Love the intensity of the BLUE... wonderfully fun and hope you got Messy... Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie

Paula J Atkinson said...

Gorgeous card, Karin. Love the colours & the stamps! (Which I do now have uninked at present)

Yvonne said...

Hi Karin...Your piece of art is beautiful!!! I love the colors you chose! So glad you played along!!!

Margik said...

Really amazing! I Love it.

Art Joy of Sharing with Peg and Shel said...

Lovely card Karin. Thanks for visiting.

Astrid Maclean said...

This is gorgeous Karin, love your painty background and great use of those stamps!

Candy C said...

Karin...this is gorgeous! I LOVE your marbled background! You've used one of my favorite Tim stamp sets and of course, it really caught my eye. Gorgeous card! Thanks for joining us at CC3C! <3 Candy

Candy C said...

Another quick comment...thanks so much for stopping by my blog and leaving such a nice comment! <3 Candy

Hels Sheridan said...

Fabby card, loving your colour choice, tis really fresh and summery... thanks for taking part in the CC3C x

Anita Houston The Artful Maven said...

What a gorgeous color scheme, reminiscent of the Spring sky! I love your stamp choices too! Thank you so much for playing along in our first CC3 Challenge!!!

Cheryl Grigsby said...

Very nice work, Karin! I love your color choices! The blues & greens speak of living things. Great work and good luck!

Ruth said...

Beautiful card, love those stamps.

Zuzu's Blog said...

you have used similar elements to my project but so so different. I LOVE the colour choice. lovely and deep. your card is very beautiful. I love how many fantastic creative variations appear from similar elements and supplies. :)

iGirlZoe said...

Beautiful card Karin, it was so nice to see it pop up after the CC3 challenge was posted. You inspired me to get mine made. Thank you for sharing. :)

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