Announcing The Grand Duchess

Morning Blogland

It's Friday so that means New Release day at

The Stamping Chef

and this week she is called

'Grand Duchess'

and she is fabulous

I decided to have another go with my watercolour pencils again and even if I do say so myself I think I am getting a bit better. I used liquid pearls for her buttons and pendant. The sentiment I printed off the computer as I thought it fit very nicely with the theme as The Duchess shouted steam punk to me straight away. I edged a white card blank with Tim Holtz distress inks, found the perfect piece of patterned paper in my stash, distressed the edge of this with inks too, as I did with the sentiment. Then I was stuck, what else could I add to the big gaping hole??? So I attacked my die cut drawer and found the perfect thing, the big Tim Holtz clock die cut. I graduated the colours using distress ink pads, added a large brad with a grey gem in the centre and then found a couple of bronze charms to hang from a piece of chain attached with a smaller brad. One charm is a heart and the circle on has the most brilliant quote 'Well behaved women rarely make history' What a brilliant, and true, thing to say.

You can pop along and buy 'Grand Duchess' with 20% off this weekend here

Have fun with her

Happy Crafting

I would like to enter this into these challenges:
http://acreativeromance.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/dies-or-punches.html
http://chocolatecoffeecards.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-48-anything-goes.html
http://digitallysweetchallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/09/dsc-53-anything-goes-wcedar-chest.html
http://sisteractcardchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/challenge-24.html
http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.ca/2013/09/seize-birthday-with-toppings.html