Distressed?

"Pass the distressing please" is the title of this week's Haunted Design House challenge. This week we are being sponsored by none other than Smeared Ink!  The prize is a mahoosive $15 digi shopping spree.
The challenge... You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece

that uses distressing of some sort. Get out your nail files, your scissor blades
and your distress inks! Your hands are really the best tools to crumple and rip,
and then spritz and sponge your way to a distressed masterpiece!
 Distressing is also a good way to work out those aggressions
 possibly left over from this past weekend's festivities.

My project this week is a card. I used Goth Fairy "Vivondra" as my main image. Coloured with distress inks before cutting out and mounting onto a background from Moonlight Journey, then mounted onto some deep red card. All edges of paper and card given the sandpaper treatment throughout and ink distressed with red or black DI as appropriate.  Some black coated card with a white core took the red DI better.

The sentiment is a stamp from the Andy Skinner range from Personal Impressions. Heat embossed in black on deep red card before roughing it up and inking.

The little heart is a mesh of two Smeared Ink digis. The wings from Vivondra and the plaid heart shape from the heart wings set. Coloured with DI again.
The little roses were coloured red then edged with black ink.
All these were layered onto a red mesh with a simple black velvet ribbon.
The BP is from Crafty Chaos Designs. (The shop appears to be having some technical difficulties and I'll add the link later.)
Layered onto yet more deep red then a black card base

A small collection of red and black pearls finished this card off.


So, off you pop, get those pent up frustrations vented on your papers then come back and show us what you made.

Don't forget to go visiting the rest of the minions and leave some bloggy love while you're sitting there .





I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges
Crafty Card Makers - Distressing
Poisoned Peas Please - Wicked Step Mothers - This would be a depiction of her action I think