more challenges

I definitely felt challenged this week! The first card was for the Bah humbug challenge 5, bows and buttons - I very rarely use ribbon, and never as a bow, and as for buttons...........After much cursing I finally found a couple of buttons left over from the days when I did a lot of knitting, pale blue ones, so that sorted the colours out...........the organza ribbon was coloured with promarker, and the white added over the top, complete with required bow. The image is from Joanna Sheen some years ago, stamped with stormy sky distress ink and painted with a bit more of the same, cut out with nesties and mounted onto a larger blue shape. the scanner was not too happy with the bow, but eventually gave in........... 

The second card is for a new challenge blog called Less is more, where there was a colour scheme of pink, black and white. Inspired by the  cards done by Lesley, Judith, Elaine and Jo of the Craft stamping quartet I thought this would be a relative doddle ......the only pink distress ink I had  was far too pale, but fortunately   I had not thrown out an ancient  set of Colorbox chalk inks, and the pinkish one still had a little life left in it, so I inked up a homemade shadow stamp. That was ok, but I got too many sprinkles of black ep over the next version (looked like it had measles!) which definitely reminded me to heat dry the chalk ink before adding the image from Elusive Images!. Then I couldn't find a text stamp that would fit - it was going to be a thank you card - then found this one, which eventually I managed to stamp on straight.............     Then the scanner decided that it was a black and white image , so had to rescan it with some red card behind to convince the scanner that it was actually coloured.........grrrrrrrrrr        The splotches across the front  were on the scanner screen, and that was after I cleaned it (honest) and that was where i gave up!