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Wednesday 15 July 2009

Tag It On #12 - Carte Postale

I love the title of this weeks challenge...Carte Postale...over on the Tag It On Challenge blog! It sounds much more sophisticated that a humble postcard hahahahaha

We could make our postcards any theme we wanted as long as it looked like a postcard...lucky for me that I had some lovely postcardy type stamps!!!! I decided to go for an Indian type theme. The card is actually a lot deeper in colour...imagine saffron & you have it!!! For the background I used a mix of distress inks and then overstamped with a map of india & surrounding areas in green ink.

The little elephant was also stamped in green and gold ink & glitter added, tho it doesn't show up too well :(

I used a real postage stamp from Nepal....another lucky find from FIL, bless him X

Oh and I just had to add some of the gold beaded ribbon....I have LOADS of that!!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to have a looksee, Take care.....HUGS XXX

13 comments:

Janice said...

That's lovely, very vintage!

Angelnorth said...

Oooh, lovely Indian themed "carte postale"! Love the beaded ribbon trim with this!

Kaz said...

That's lovely Karen, the trim is fab.

Gez Butterworth said...

Karen its fabulous.xx

I love everything about it! The little elephant... the whole layout is perfect.xx

Love your beads. You have been busy. Looks fun. I might be able to join this challenge. Gez.xx

Lori Saul said...

This is a wonderful postcard- I love all of the elements you have used to create this- beautiful work!

Juls said...

gorgeous! I love the vintage stly and the elephant is just too cute!

cheryl said...

wow this is a beauty hun love that stamp great detail lots love cheryl xxxxxxx

Kathy said...

Lovely work karen

Debbie Dolphin said...

Great Tag-i love the vintage-ness!! of it and the efalump
debbie xx

lisa said...

This is lovely Karen I love that stamp and the elephant works so well with it. This theme has me a bit stumped this week, but you've done it brilliantly.

Lisax

Traceyr said...

Gorgeous Karen. Love the ribbon and the beading too.

:)

AliMayes said...

What a lovely postcard - I went to India ages ago and this does bring back memories!
Ali xx

Dragon said...

How did I miss this one??? It is lovely and all the elements work so well. Thanks for all your continued support for my challenge, Karen... much appreciated.
Frankie
xx