A very challenging ....

.... challenge on PaperPlay this week, well it was challenging for me anyway!!:

"We would like you to create a project without using any patterned paper. Cardstock only can be used.. however you can ink it, emboss it, stamp on it, rip it.. whatever you fancy doing!"

We are delighted to have been sponsored this week by Whiff of Joy, and they are giving one of their gorgeous stamps to this weeks' winner.

Some friends have had a baby, of course it's a girl!!!  So I made her a card and it's my DT entry:

As anyone who knows me (or reads my blog) will know, I am awfully fond of patterned paper, so this was a definite challenge to me.  I stamped my dotty white background using Versamark and heat-embossed with white e.p.  The main image stamp I've had a while, I originally bought it to use on baby cards, but ended up using it for the first time on a Hallowe'en challenge - I made it into a Salem's Lot card, altered to look like a vampire face peering through a window.  The stamp consequently creeped me out for two and a half years.  I like it with this soft ink, though - I think I've broken through that particular phobia at last!!!  I used my MS punch to make a border for the double layer of circles - I think it makes it look like a flower. 

Here's a close-up:

Recipe:

Cardstock: Bazzill Swiss Dots, Coredinations and Bazzill.

Stamps: Hero Arts "Raindrops", Inkadinkadoo "Moon Baby"

Punch: MS Valentine Lace

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Victorian Velvet

Other: Ribbon, needle & thread

I'm also entering it in the following challenges: Crafty Creations (Distressing), and Creative Cottage (Green - the ribbon on my card was taken off a toiletry gift box!)

Thanks for looking!!