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"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird." -- Paul McCartney









Wednesday, October 23, 2013

LET'S SCRAP - A NEW CHALLENGE!

This week's sketch at Let's Scrap is a double page layout (you can choose either the double page or either page) to create for this challenge :

I chose the left hand pge and flipped it a quarter turn to the left to create this vintage Christmas card:



I used free vintage Christmage images, printed them onto textured (cream) Bazzil cardstock and sprayed them with clear aerosol lacquer to give them an 'olde' look.  They were matted onto red-brown shimmer CS.

The card base is the shimmer re-brown CS, and over that I have striped DP and a scrap of Christmas themed DP.

The flag behind the images is also a scrap of  Christmas DP.

The embellishement is a flower, diecut CS holly leaves and flourishes.  I sewed on some beads by hand.

Click HERE to find out more challenge details and whie you're there, feast your eyes on my fellow DT's interpretations of the sketch - you will love what you see!

luv'n huggz
Jen Leeflang
DURBAN
SOUTH AFRICA

I would like to add my card to the following challenge :


(“♪♪♪ deck the halls with boughs of holly♪♪♪”)
FAIRY TALE CHALLENGE, #78, BINGO (RIBBON/WINTER TIME/DIES)
 


30 comments:

  1. This is a lovely vintage looking Christmas card. Thank you for joining us this fortnight at Perfectly Rustics.

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  2. Your Christmas card looks as though it's emerged directly from the 1800's Jen. Your treatment of your images has made them stand out so beautifully and the addition of the flower spray - complete with hand sewn-on beads is such a pretty finishing touch. Good luck in our challenge this week. Ingrid xx (OSAAT Team)

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  3. Beautiful vintage card. Love it! :-)

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  4. Gorgeous vintage images - love your design. Your flower spray is so beautiful and adds lots of depth and texture. Thanks for joining us at Merry Monday. Loll

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  5. Love the vintage feel. Thanks for joining us at MAWTT this week. Clairex MAWTT DT

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  6. This is beautiful - love the mulitple images!

    Thanks for joining us at One Stitch at a Time this week, and good luck!

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  7. Gorgeous card, lovely papers and image and the die cut embellishment adds a beautiful finishing touch. Spotted it on MIM xx

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  8. Such a beautiful card and thanks for joining our challenge at Allsorts this week
    x catherine

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  9. Pretty design! thanks for sharing with us at crafty little fairies
    Hugs Kelly

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  10. Gorgeous! Thank you for joining us at OSAAT. Good luck.

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  11. Love the vintage feel of this card! Beautiful!

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  12. Stunning creation Jan! I do love those images and how you interpreted your sketch layout. Thanks for joining us at OSAAT this week and hope you'll come back soon. Maggie - DT.

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  13. Hello!
    Thank you for joining us at Fairy Tale Challenge! You have created such a lovely card! Wonderfull colours and layout! xx Bianca

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  14. Fantastic!

    Thank you for joining us at Fairy Tale Challenge.

    Andrea

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  15. Jen, Your card is beautiful, and I LOVE the vintage images. Thanks for the information about how you printed and treated them. Will have to give that a try!
    Gail

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  16. What a Beautiful Christmas card Jen, great job on your sketch!

    Good to see you join us for the OSAAT Challenge, hope to you come back soon!
    ¸..• ´¨¨)) -:¦:-¸.•´ .•´¨¨))*((¸¸.•´ ..•´
    Shell in Alaska
    http://akstamping.blogspot.com

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  17. Oh Jen, Stunning!! I love everything about it.

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  18. Beautiful Vintage Christmas card. Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday this week.

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  19. Very elegant card!
    Thanks for joining us at Christmas Card Challenges this week!
    Monica - CCC DT

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  20. I saw this beautiful card at MIM. I love the vintage images and lovely embellishments.
    Jean x

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  21. Fabulous Vintage style card Jen, I love these papers. Thank you for joining us for Merry Monday.

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  22. Beautiful vintage card! I love the little flower spray! Thanks so much for joining us at Merry Monday.

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  23. Beautiful vintage card! I love the flower spray! Thanks so much for joining us at Merry Monday.

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  24. Fab card, love the vintage style. Thanks for joining us this week at LCI xx

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  25. Such a gorgeous card. I love how you've interpreted the sketch and the whole vintage feel is just lovely... I especially like how you've printed the vintage images onto textured card. Such a fabulous effect! :)

    Thanks for joining in our Anything Goes challenge at OSAAT this week.

    Ali

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  26. Beautiful card Jen!! Stunning design and image.

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  27. What a beautiful vintage Christmas card! The colours are lovely. Thanks for joining us at Perfectly Rustics.

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  28. A lovely card!
    Thank you soo much for taking part in our "Blogaversary - Anything Goes” challenge & good luck in the draw…
    Hope to see you again in our next challenge.

    Hugs,
    Melanie
    (DT Creative Craft Challenges)

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  29. The vintage feel to this card creates such a warm Christmas feel. Lovely choice of papers. Thanks so much for joining us at Perfectly Rustics

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