Snakes and Curves

Time for a new Lollipop Ladies  challenge.

This one is all about those lovely chewy, juicy jelly snakes.  Who eats the heads first and who chomps on the tails first?  Go on, hands up! I'm a head girl myself - don't like the idea they might whip around and bite me before I get too far ;)

The additional challenge to this image is 

CURVES

My card based on a commercial blank 14 x 14 card from Big W; the DP used is from a Basic Grey Hullo Lucious Paper Pad. The card used is all Stampin'Up - Bravo Burgundy for the lace, Lucky Limeaid for the background and Whisper White for the stamped image. The lace is an SU punched strip. There is a scrap of yellow used too - not sure whose. The stamp itself is one I have had for a long time and got from the UK - not sure of the maker.  The ink used to stamp the image is Memento Black. I then stamped the sentiment in Tim Holtz's Distress Ink Tea Dye using a sentiment from Annabelle Stamps set All Things Grow, and used another SU punch to punch it out!  This is also used to distress the white card and other TH inks are used to colour the image using sponges and care! I used a technique I saw demonstrated on Stamp, Embellish, Create by the talented Kylie.  However, instead of using a crayon, I used the sharpened end of a small white candle to cover the faces of the children in wax, and to put in other places that I wanted to stay whitish. I then sponged the Distress Inks all over the image and rubbed it off the areas with the wax with a tissue.

It is finished off with some Annabelle Stamp Sprinkles and a bit of twine. The curves in mine come from the sprinkles and the lace strip, and the colours reflect those of the lucious jelly snakes!

I am entering this in the Annabelle Stamps Challenge for this week, which is a sketch!
As well, I am entering it into Celebrate the Occasion Challenge  - Birthday Card and
Colour Q challenge has the same colours I used so I will enter that as well!

I like the distressed look it has and the colours remind me of childhood (remember, mine WAS a long time ago!) .

Now, stampers - your turn. Why not make a card or item and enter it into the Challenge.  You have until March 15th to enter.  Do you good! Reminder: no digi's in this one.