FTTC#235 - Distressed Chrysanthemum

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Hi, all you Flourishes fans!  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  We finally had a weekend that wasn't full of rain and for that, I'm grateful!

It's time for our latest edition of the Timeless Tuesday challenge!

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Deborah is our hostess this week and here's her challenge:

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In Distress - Add a distressed look to your card or project.

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This is always a fun technique to use!  You can actually be a little messy on purpose!

I'm using one of the fabulous new August sets today - Chrysanthemum.  What gorgeous images and beautiful sentiments to use along with the Mums!

I used my Silhouette to cut the single mum from Flourishes Classic White cardstock and then stamped it with Memento Gray Flannel ink.  Then I colored it using the Poppy Copic collection along with the R01 and R02 markers as well.

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The white background layer and the Perfectly Pierced Classic Frames die cut were both spritzed with a mixture of crisp cantalope reinker and water.  I stitched two of the layers together, and distressed the edges of the top stitched layer and the white spritzed layer.  I also sponged some of the gray along the edges of the white layer.

I stamped the sentiment in Gray Flannel ink onto one of the flags and added a pearl self-adhesive border to the other. 

I've used the Dynamic Duos #67 color combo, and the Cardabilities #81 sketch today:

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Please play along in our In Distress challenge this week!  We always love to see your beautiful creations!  And speaking of beautiful….check out what the design team has created for your inspiration this week:

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• Allison Cope Israels
• Broni Holcombe - you are here!
• Cheryl Lea
• Deborah Anton
• Jenny Gropp
• Judy Rozema 
• Marie Ross, our August guest designer

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That's it for me today!  Have a lovely week!

Comments

[Rosy Newlun]

Charming! Love your stitching and the distressed edges!

[chanya13]

Beautiful card!!! Love flower and colour combo :) Thanks for playing along with us at Cardabilities!!! Agnieszka

[Allison Cope Israels]

Stunning Broni! I love mist of colour and your mum is so beautiful! Lovin' the cluster of pearls! Gorgeous card this week!

[Tera]

Beautifully colored flower and love the pearls!!

[Michelle W]

Beautiful, Broni! Wow! I'm loving how you've managed to make a distressed/grungy card look so clean! Thanks for joining us at Dynamic Duos!

[Tara (Murphy) Bourgoin]

Gorgeous!! That stitching is amazing, and I adore all your distressing. Beautiful flower, too! Thanks for sharing with us at Dynamic Duos this week!

[Cindy Groh]

Beautiful card. Love the image and the color choice. Those little pearls in a couple of rows is a fun touch. I'll have to remember that.

[Cheryl Lea]

I love the "clean" distressed look you've got going on here! My cards are always so dark...I need to give this look a try. Beautiful coloring on the chrysanthemum, and the soft, spritzed bg is a lovely backdrop for it. Oh, and the loose thread ends are so subtle, I almost missed them--fantastic!

[Damaris V.]

Oh this is just beautiful and so unique. You've captured the sketch nicely.

Thank you for joining the Cardabilities Sketch challenge.

x0, Damaris