Pick of the bunch

Morning crafters, I hope you're all well. The weather here is wet and horrid I guess we have seen our summer now and this is it for the rest of the year, such a shame I love the summertime especially when it's hot like it has been but all good things come to an end as they say...:o((((((

Well I have card for you  it's not come out IRL how it was in my head but I'm pleased with it all the same.
I set myself a challenge to make a card woth out an image EEeeeekkkkkkkk and then told a friend who said she had every faith in me that I could do it, so I couldn't let her down could I ??

So here it is I must worn you this post is tad pic heavy as there is a lot going on on the card

 I have also done something else completely different to and that is use papers from paper stash not my digital papers (well I used 1) the others are from docrafts papermania capsule collection

I  tore the papers to give a distressed look and then inked the edges with Antque linen, old paper and then either shadded lilac dusky concord and seedless preserves DI to give an extra grundgy feel

then I layered them with a piece of lace between the first and second sheet then tulle between the next then finally lace

 I generated the sentiment on my PC using a mix of fonts cut out with spellbinders label die scrunched it up and inked with a mix of the purple DI then using versa mark ink dabbed it here and there then added some embossing powder and set it with heat tool.
I then cut a mat out for the sentiment and did the same with that, I got 2 nail brads that where silver in colour covered those with emaossing powder and set that to make them look copper looking.

 The bottle I used here is one that I got from a £ shope it had nail caviar in and as I have a few of them I have put the contents in a larger pot so thought I would put them to some use I inked the bottle and dipped it in the embossing powder (now I hadn't got a clue if this would work and was half expecting the bottle to shatter with the heat of gun) but I'm really pleased with the look of it  I had to ink the plastic stopper to make it look older and not so plasticy (is that a word lol) anyway I also made a sentiment to go in here too.

The butterflies are metal and again have been given the embossing treatment

 I added a die cut birdcage which was also embossed but I coloured the birdies with a PM I made the 2 little fushia flowers on top of it

 Then I added flowers from stash I was going to make all the flowers but as there was no image I wanted them to make a statement so needed some bigger ones

 You can see the papers in this one and the embossing I do like how it turned out

So there you have my card for today I hope you like it and I will be entering it into the following challenges

http://agirlwhocraftschalengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Word play

http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ Monochrome

 http://fussyandfancychallenge.blogspot.ca/ Words