My first time to set the challenge at Colour Create!!

Yes, as it says in the title my time has come to pick the photo for the new challenge on Colour Create!  And it's a bit different from the fabby hot and bright colours from the last!!  We had some fantastic cards entered  for Victoria's challenge - don't forget to hop over and see who's won the fab collection of Stampin Up goodies.  Here's my pic:

I love the shabby chic, muted tones of the pic and the colours to use are Ivory, Duck Egg Blue and one other colour of your choice from the photo! Oh and the optional extra is shabby chic (of course!) 

Our sponsor this week is Michelle's Scrapbooking so hope you can join us to be in with the chance of a fabby prize!

And here's my card:

I've used this gorgeous retro cling stamp from Hero Arts and coloured it with a mixture of the AquaMarkers for the skin and blue dress, and distress ink for the green dress.  I also aged the background pattern with Old Paper Distress Ink.

 My papers are a mixture of Basic Grey Capella and Tim Holtz Lost and Found.  I made the background circle shapes by drawing round the lid of a Petal Point ink set and then round the base for the slightly bigger piece.  The flowers were made with the TH Tattered Florals die and the leaves with a Sizzix die.  I distressed the edges and then inked with various Distress Inks for the shabby chic look.  Rest of the embellies are from stash.

Finally, I've used the fabulous sketch over on Sketch and Stash this week and I have to say it was brilliant to use (note to self, must keep a record of it to use again!) I used the Hero Arts stamp which I've had for a couple of months but not used before.  I suppose my neglected stash would be the Petal Point Inks even though I used them to draw round and not the actual inks - tee hee!

Hope you like my photo choice and that I will get to see lots of lovely creations over the next fortnight!  Don't forget too to visit the blogs of the rest of the Colour Create DT- you're in for a treat!!