Live and Love crafts Challenge: Something Old

Hi there lovely friends and followers! 

Hope you're all enjoying the very first day of 2013!

I´d like to welcome you all to this my first posting as a very proud dt for Live and Love Crafts :) Im so exited to let you in on all the amazing things that the lovely store owner, Sandy  and her team invites us to join. One of those things is the LLC challenges  that runs monthly.

Our first theme of this year is to create a project with SOMETHING OLD in mind. 

I made a valentines card and used an all new Tilda HOWEVER thats not very old like ha? So I finally put my new knowledge to the test that I learnt at the WS in Borås during the Magnolia event early october. The WS was taught by my lovely and very talented friend, Debbie Dolphin and was all about coloring in sepia. Something at least I think adds to that vintage / old feeling. I think the images reminds me of the old photographs I used to look at in my grandmothers albums. I was afraid I had forgotten most of her tips and tricks but no! I think it turned out pretty well. 

I decided to use some of the amazingly beautiful dp´s from Pion Design´s collection of 6*6 papers Silent Night. Not very valentines like you might think but I for one think the Pion papers are very versatile and can be used whenever really. I also used cheese cloth and shabby seam-binding. I applied some of the adorable pearl string around the image and something I just cant seem to get enough of is the beautiful resin pieces and I decided to use a lock from the small lockbox appliqué set. Adds to that shabby feeling that I truly love :) The metal corners are actually in silver but I painted them with distress crackle paint Picket fence, which I have also applied a little here and there all over the card and the edges of all paper. I also used a princess crown charm, its underneath the seam binding. The flowers are rolled roses that I use all the time, can never have to many of those ;) 

The heart is cut with a Magnolia Doo Hickey die called So wrapped lovely  and the big flower is also a Magnolia doo hickey called Doily flowers .  In the pictures below I have tried to take some detailed pics and will be showing them below:

Thank you so much for checking in with me today! 

Hope to see you back here again in a few hours as we in Deep Ocean challenges also shares something really fun AND different today! 

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