Grungy Monday 14

Well, one way or another it has been quite a Grungy Monday. The day started with a large flock of sheep taking a wrong turning. I guess the adventure began with just one or two of the little woolly creatures taking a diversion, and the rest followed like a load of ........ well, sheep. Anyway, they left the road, came all the way down our little lane and took a left into my garden trampling my seedlings in the process. The farmer and his dozy collie took some time to catch up with them, during which time my old cat was looking very grumpy and irritable having had his snooze in the sun interrupted, and having to put up with a huge chorus of loud baa-ing and bleating. Looking on the bright side, they did leave quite a number of little gifts which I shall collect tomorrow and put in a pail of water to use as liquid fertiliser at a later date. It's good stuff. My old neighbour used to swear by it when replanting her cyclamen corms, and each year would send her hubby down the fields with a large bucket.

The rest of the grunginess was indoors and involved me following Tim Holtz' directions to create a resist for a Distress Ink and Perfect Pearls cocktail in order to join in with Linda's Studio L3 challenge. My first attempt was using Black Soot/Pewter, Pumice Stone/Pearl and Fired Brick/Gold. I had a feeling that things weren't going to work out. These colours did make a gorgeous background, but as they were so dark, I had to do my stamping in White Adirondack, and I just didn't like it on the tag which is now consigned to my scraps box. However, I will use the rest of these mixes on a book cover.

My next attempt involved Victorian Velvet/Blush, Faded Jeans/Gold and Worn Lipstick/Pearl. There were also a few squirts of Dusty Concord added to the mix. The background text stamping doesn't show up very well in the photo. The rest of the stamping is in Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky and black Archival, and stamps used are Tim, Paperbag Studios and Wendy Vecchi. The flower is a Tattered Floral stamped with a WV checked design stamp and spritzed with the Victorian Velvet mix, and the ribbon is coloured with V Velvet too.