Distressed again

I can't believe that I've gone from distressing making me distressed to embracing the technique. I haven't gone as far as distress inks yet, I'm too attached to my Promarkers. The lovely Lili of the Valley images also make it much more pleasurable to make cards for men and boys. I love the shape of this image which looks so good in an oval. The sketch is from Lili of the Valley. Instead of the 3 flowers I added some Sizzix leaves which echo the shape of the leaves in the image. Distressing is the challenge at Paper Sundaes so I inked and filed the edges and even tore the top edge of the K&Co paper, which reminds me of the newspaper in the image. The colour scheme of brown, blue and white is for The Crafty Pad. I don't think I have ever used this colour scheme before but I really like it. Lastly lots of spots (ribbon, swiss dots embossing folder, round buttons and sentiment) is for Totally Papercrafts.

For the second card I used this Cuddly Buddly stamp, which I won at Just Cute Bears last week. Their challenge this week is lilac so how could I resist this challenge. Papers are Papermania Capsule collection. I used my MSBP and added some Primas, charm, brads, spacers, punched fern leaves and gems. Other challenges are:
Paperplay Sketch
Cute Card Thursday Metal mania
Crafty Catz Charming Bear
Incy Wincy Touchy feely

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Hello from a snowy Norfolk. How typical that we had snow for the week before Christmas and snow a week after Christmas yet on Christmas Day nothing. All that was left was a bit of ice in places. Now everyone is back to work tomorrow, myself included we have snow everywhere. Nothing like the amount in some places I know but our county doesn't cope well with it because we don;t get a lot usually.

This simple card was made using a free digi image I recently found on the Cuddly Buddly site. The papers I have had for ages as they were part of my first blog candy win not long after I started my blog. I added some chipboard flowers from the Dovecraft Fantasy tin and some blue hearts which I have had for a long time.
Challenges
Allsorts Sketch and either something new or old
Stampin' for the Weekend New beginnings
Secret Crafter New beginnings
Paperplay New beginnings

Whimsy Chip off the old block (use chipboard)