Frilly and Funkie - Opposites Attract

Hello Everyone!

It's time for another challenge over at Frilly and Funkie. The very wonderful and talented Kathy is our hostess and she has chosen the theme "OPPOSITES ATTRACT". She would dig deep and create any kind of vintage or shabby chic project you choose, as long as it is not done in your usual style or colour palette. One lucky winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to Linda's shop The Funkie Junkie Boutique!

My usual style is very feminine and my usual colours are pretty much anything...so I have decided to go a little grungy and do it with no colours at all!! This could be used for a wedding, a shower or an anniversary.

For the background, I was going for a faux granite kind of look. I think it turned out really well so I'm going to do a video on my process for that. I have included most of the products I used in the Linky at the bottom, so I will keep this short and sweet.

Lots of layers of papers from Prima, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and stamps from Stamper's Anonymous - all available at Linda's shop. If you have any specific questions, let me know in the comments.

UPDATE:
My card won awards in the following wonderful challenges:

** - Crafting for All Seasons - Challenge #125 - Add a Banner

** - Card and Scrap - Challenge 117 Anniversaries

  

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All of the following products that I used can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique

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These are some photos from last weekend from the hike Andrei and I took together. I really look forward to when the shores of this river are lush with green foliage, it looks so drab right now (although I still love it).

Thanks so much to everyone who helped me identify this plant above as being a teazle/teazel/ teasle//teasel (not sure why there's so many spelling variations on that). Can you do it again with the flower/plant thing below??

There once was a girl on the river

who fed a goose, then realized with a shiver

that the goose wanted more

and would chase her down shore

So this girl had to run, had to GIV'ER!

"EXCUSE ME - I WAS TOLD THE BUFFET OPENS AT 8AM!!"

oh Karen, you silly billy, you!

And from my bird watching window this week - a Common Grackle - although there's hardly anything common about the iridescent feathers this boy is sporting! 

FACT: Common Grackles, although handsome - are large, noisy, and gregarious birds that often flock with other blackbirds. At feeders they tower over other birds and push them aside to get at the food. (boy, you put some beers in their hands and they sure do remind me of another species I know) lol

Last but not least - my token morning coffee shot.

That's it for today. Thank you for stopping in and for all the amazing comments. If you have any questions or interesting tidbits about today's wildlife, please let me know.