Tim Holtz inspired background card #1

You may have seen my posts for the present Country View Challenge - Inspired by Tim Holtz - both on the challenge blog and at Bumblebees and Butterflies. So for my shop projects this month I thought I would use a couple of those inky backgrounds just as they are and make a couple of cards. here's the first with that drippy, speckled background and some feminine shabby flowers.

I used Tim's sizzix Bigz tattered florals and his new Thinlits small tattered florals to get the flower pieces which I cut in crinoline. I spritzed them with water and dabbed on both picket fence and victorian velvet distress paints, scrunched them up and dried them .....

.... before putting them together with pretty brads.

Next I collected the pieces I wanted for my layout .....

 .... and eh voila the card came together (but without the string bow - it just didn't look right with it on).

The oval plaque was a chipboard covered with some paper from my bits box.

The Tim Holtz strip die borders helped pull it altogether.

Although I wasn't sure about the mix of the more industrial looking background with pretty embellishments, I'm really happy with the outcome.

The greeting is one I made on the pc and printed out.

If you are having fun with the oxide please let us know and enter the challenge with them.

hugs Brenda xxx

Tim Holtz® - Distress Oxide Ink Pad - Walnut Stain	Tim Holtz® - Distress Oxide Ink Pad - Peeled Paint	Tim Holtz® - Distress Oxide Ink Pad - Broken China	Tim Holtz Bigz die - Tattered florals	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 21PK - Small Tattered Florals By Tim Holtz
Tim Holtz Distress paint - Picket fence	Tim Holtz Distress paint - Victorian velvet	Sissix Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die - Vintage Lace	American seam binding - White

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