SOS challenge 18 - no colouring - 2011 365 #130

Happy birthday to me (yippee)...This is my attempt for the no colouring challenge over at Shopping our Stash this week...as soon as the girls issued the challenge not to colour, that was all I could think of doing...which is funny because quite a few of my recent projects haven't had any colouring on them...I am like a little kid when it comes to crafting...if you tell me no, that is all I can think of doing...so I switched it up and started inking everything....this also caused me to become a super huge fan of the Tim Holtz distressing inks...they were soooo  much fun to use...I cut this doily out from my Cindy Loo cricut cartridge...I only bought this cartridge because I liked the name...not because I liked any of the images, so I felt I should at least open it for this challenge...otherwise I should be ashamed that I bought it...the cut outs all started white and I filled them in with distress inks to get the desired shading...just inked the bird too, put on some crystal effects and glitter...I even decorated the inside to go with the outside to finish it off just that much more and that's all she wrote!  So put down your crayons and your pencils and come over to join us at Shopping our Stash this week...

I am also entering this card in the following challenges:

 Crafts 4 Eternity recipe challenge: leaves, birds and glitter...check, check, check!

Just us Girls: Aqua, Pumpkin and Kiwi....plus I have a little brown mixed in with all the oranges, but I am entering it still because I also made the bird beak pumpkin...

Stampy Land Challenge - decorate inside and out...check!