Marching into March

Goodness me here were are in March and let's see if the old saying In like a lamb out like  a lamb is true? We seen to have had all the season's in the last few days...storm Doris was pretty awful!  I'm keeping my supply of daffs growing on my window sill in the kitchen. These pretty flowers greet me every morning.

As it's the first of the month it is of course time for my next DT card for Country View and for this month's challenge Christine has chosen the theme "Inspired by Tim Holtz". For me that's an easy choice as I love all things Tim but if that's a tough one for you think, vintage, inks, mixed media etc etc. There is also plenty of inspiration over on the challenge blog from my talented Teamies and all the details can be seen here. You might even be lucky enough to win the £20 voucher which is up for grabs to a random winner.

Today I also want to show that you don't have to go totally over to the brown and grungy side to make something Tim inspired. For my project I have made a girlie celebration card.

I can share my process with some photos I took as I went along.

I stuck strips of aluminium tape onto card and then used various tools to leave marks like rivets and metal joints. I then black acrylic paint and when it was nearly dry I buffed most of it off with a cloth.

I then added and some Remnant Rubs.

I die cut a weathered clock using off cut of the aluminium card. I rubbed it with Decadent Wine gilding wax.

My other elements got textures too....using various embossing folders, stamps and crackle paste

Then it was time to put on my creative hat. Once I had played with my design I came up with this card. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday anything goes

More mixed media anything goes

         Craft Catz anything goes

       Lil patch of crafting friends anything goes

Words 2 Craft by celebrations
Simon says stamp Monday based on a book mine is The Time Traveller's wife...one of my all time fave reads.

Thanks for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave.

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Bye for now,

Jane x