Hats can be distressing...

Well they can be if you are trying to choose one that won't blow down the road at the first bit of breeze or make you look like Hyacinth Bucket!!

However, ladies in hats on rubber stamps are never distressing - as I looked through my stamps for the 'Hats' challenge at My time to stamp I realised that I have quite a few of them and I love them all.

I decided to use this stamp by Frances Naeve at Hearts in Touch. It's from one of her sheets of Art Deco images which are fabulous. As I was checking the link I discovered that the lady image used in my other card posted today is from the same sheet of stamps!!! Must change that posting to the correct stamp designer!!

My card is also for the ABC challenge which this week is 'Distressing' - hence my title and ramblings about hats blowing off down the road.

I used the Divine Swirls embossing folder and distressed the embossing with a sanding block. As the black card I used had a brownish back I was really surprised to see the white pop through. Obviously the black must be a coating which is sooooooooo easy to remove.

I trimmed the image with a gemstone and added a tag embellished with a silver sentiment peel off. A black feather is lurking under the tag as I love feathers and Art Deco images.