I hope you all had a super weekend, I got in some extra crafting time, which was great - and because of that I am early with my Sunday Stampers offering for this week! I even managed to get 'stuck in' to the 50 'general' cards commission...there has to be a book title in there somewhere? I'll share some of them with you over the next few weeks. There are actually only (!) 40 left as I made him 10 before, to make sure it was what he wanted...and now I'm down to 25 left :)
In case you don't know, Sunday Stampers is a weekly stamping challenge set by the brilliant Hels Sheridan and I just love taking part, so much in fact I don't think I've missed one since starting to take part over a year ago. You can find out all about the challenge and view Hels' wonderfully inspirational posts HERE
The theme this week is BLUE, one of my very favourite colours...
It's been a while since I created a tag for my project, so I decided that this week, that's what it was to be...
I began by spritzing cosmic shimmer mists Egyptian Blue and silver all over a tag made from pale blue card. I then heat dried, leaving a splatter effect. Finally I inked all over with Peacock Feathers distress ink (my current favourite colour).
Next, using the same distress ink I stamped this flower from Sam Poole's 'Art Flowers' stamp set, (another buy from Ally Pally), three times. I also stamped once with black archival and from that layer I cut the stem. All the layers were heat embossed with clear powder. I also stamped the quote from the same set, with the distress ink, mixed with chipped sapphire to deepen and make a two-tome and again heat embossed with clear powder.
I keep my melt pot on my desk, so it gets a lot of use! I made the button centre for the flower with melted UTEE mixed with a little glitter. The two hearts were made by pouring the UTEE into the bezel, I took one out and left the other as a charm on the tag, tied with ribbon.
To finish I added a little blue lace to the bottom of the tag..hope you like and thanks for stopping by
Love and hugs,
Carole X
Gorgeous tag Carole and just love your fabulous colours and how you've embellished your tag
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Morning Carole, Lovely tag, fab colours too! I love blues (I wonder why!?) Really must get my hands on a melt pot, your creations using yours are really making me want to have a go too.
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Amy x
Beautiful tag love your colours I must get my melt pot out what a got in a sale for a bargain of £10 will a lot of different mediums .Melanie
ReplyDeleteHi Carole, what beautiful blues you have chosen on this gorgeous tag. Love Sam's flower and also the melt art creations. I am playing with some Media Mixage items too but they are not so effective as yours as I don't have a melt pot (sigh) but it is fun! The lace at the bottom of your tag is beautiful too. Hugs, Anne x
ReplyDeleteI agree with Anne, what beautiful blues! This is a lovely tag and I love the use of the melt pot - great work! x
ReplyDeleteLove the rich blue on your tag Carole. Great embellishments Christine x
ReplyDeleteoooh LOVE what you did with the Bezels, they are FAB aren't they! Thanks for joining in with the Sunday Stamper x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Carole! Love the flower and the bezel looks great! A nice keepsake.xx
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