What? Just One Color???

Good morning and happy Monday to you all.  Thanks for stopping by to check out my weekly Simon Says Stamp and Show project.  This week we want you to show us your One Color.  This was a tough one for me.  I kept wanting to stray into adding another color so badly,  not that I don't like this vintage brown.  It just seemed like everything I reached for to add was another color.  So I'm not sure how I feel about this one although it is definitely loaded with vintage style embellies.    It's destined to be either a wall hanging or a jumbo refrigerator magnet.

I started out with a nice big piece of round chipboard.  I cut out a circle of the same size and cut it into quarters.  On each quarter panel, using Vintage Photo distress ink, I stamped a background stamp, one from each of these sets:  Wendy Vecchi's Nature's Art, Live and Make Art, Believe in Art and Artistic Outpost's Ephemera Backgrounds. Then I sewed the panels back together with a zigzag stitch and glued it over the chipboard circle.  I ink distressed it up a bit with more Vintage Photo and then randomly gold embossed the outer edges.  The ruffle is made from kraft paper twist ribbon that I stamped the Christmas Carol music from Tim Holtz's Holiday Minis 3.  The paper twist was cut in a long strip, gathered and glued to the back to form a ruffle of sorts.

The doily was colored with Vintage Photo Distress Stain and the Santa from Tim Holtz's Holiday Minis was stamped in brown with Antique Linen Distress Stickles used on his holly leaf crown.  The snowflakes were cut from vintage book pages with an older Spellbinders snowflake die set and of course ink distressed with Vintage Photo.  The crinoline and the felt were cut with the Tattered Florals die.  

I hope you will stop by the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge blog to see the amazing art projects my team mates have created.  And while you are there, grab some mojo and play along with us this week.  You might just be the lucky winner of the $50 randomly awarded shopping spree at Simon Says Stamp, courtesy of our very generous sponsor of the same name.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for the very lovely comments that are left.

Challenges Entered:

Fashionable Stamping Challenge:  Coffee and Cream with a Hint of Dark Chocolate