Teddy Bea Sitting Pretty

Good Evening

The current challenge over at Teddy Bo and Co is to use your birthstone.  My birthday is in February, therefore my birthstone is Amethyst which could perhaps explain my liking of purples.  I have been busy making calendars, and I have made this one to tie-in with the challenge:

Teddy Bea is coloured with Coloursoft pencils, blended using baby oil. The mat she is sat on is cut using a Spellbinders die, matted onto core'dinations cardstock which I have distressed with a sanding block.  Distress Inks in Milled Lavender and Dusty Concorde are used round the edge of the image to take away the starkness.

The gorgeous papers are printed from one of the SWALK cd-roms (sorry I can't remember which one), I printed them onto Crafters Companion satin paper, as recommended by my lovely blogging friend Edna, you get such fantastic results with this paper.

The calendar tab is sat on a mat cut with a Mariannes die from core'dinations card, again I distressed this with a sanding block.  The flourishes are also a Marianne die from silver mirror card.  The flowers are Nellie Snellen punches, with a co-ordinating pearl in the centre.

I would like to also enter my calendar in the following challenges:

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes plus distressing

Shopping Our Stash - Revisit an old challenge - November, use a digi

Thanks for having a look.

Jo xx