Mr Brown has come to town..

My Scrap Whispers layout for this week's challenge is brown.

 

I couldn't work out why it looked so naff and then I remembered that when you're submitting stuff to magazines they always say 'not brown please' because it doesn't photograph very well!  So there you go.

The theme of this week's challenge is 'new' - and clearly the subject matter of my page isn't new!  However, I have tried to use lots of my new brads and managed to get through quite a few.  I dipped the ones at the top into embossing powder because I wanted them metallic.

 

I just thought I'd show you this card as well.  The other day I got a box full of rubber stamps that I won on ebay for 99p.  The postage was a fiver but it was well worth it as there were LOADS of stamps in there, nearly all of them brand new.  A Hero Arts background set and a gorgeous Personal Impressions tree, and some HA Christmas ones including a lovely fairy lights background stamp, still unopened.  There was also a set of flower stamps that I'd seen in the shop and really liked, and some docrafts trees, one for each season.

(I've just clicked on something accidentally, by the way, it says I've changed editors which I had no intention of doing, so if it looks different just ignore it.)

Anyway.  Also in the box were a couple of See-D's sets that I hadn't seen in the photo when I bought them.  One was a really nice 'love' set and then there was this one.  This isn't normally my cup of tea at all, since it's rather modern, don't you know.  But I love the font, and there is a great message about friends being like wine which I've used inside the card and should have taken a photo of.

So I made this card.  Everything on it is from the set, including the swirly border and the background.  I accented the little flowery things with a white crayon before inking it with what I thought was Old Lipstick - or whatever it's called - but in fact turned out to be Dried Marigold.  Not deterred, I just went over it with the Lipstick.  I learnt two things from this, and both of them were to use my daylight lamp at night.  Then I might have seen what inkpad I was using, and also wouldn't have been surprised in the morning when I discovered that the card wasn't pink at all, but a sort of peachy colour!

Still, I'm showing it to you because it rather pleased me, even though it is not at all what I normally do and just looks like it's been made with pre-printed toppers.  As far as I'm concerned this cost me absolutely nothing, so woo hoo!

Comments

[Nilsa]

Great take on the challenge. Lovely vintage layout.