Style.....

Made a decorative tag for a swap over on UK Stampers Forum .....

I used  recycled card from a cereal box for the base and covered this with some old book-paper. I then coloured this with Distress inks and cut-n-dry foam and stamped with an inkblot stamp in browns and yellows.

I then stamped three abstract form stamps in Versafine black ink on white card. These were trimmed out and stuck in place as shown. The tag had a black eyelet applied with the crop-a-dile and was edged in black Posca with some swirls stamped in more Versafine ink.

A sticker tab was applied on the top right. I then used some alpha stickers and spelled out the word 'style' on some grey card and applied this on foam pads as shown. I used a couple of silver decorative paperclips as embellishments.

Finally I added some black & white check ribbon, a piece tied around the tag with a small bow and a piece threaded through the eyelet and tied in place with a piece of jute string to finish.

Liked the idea of old paper and black & white together !

Sid xx

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Best Butter Tag ......

Made this tag as  part of a Challenge on The Enchanted Place Blog by Jannet Blay. The challenge centres around 'Alice Day' where in celebration of the book 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll we are to make an Alice related piece. I have designed and made this tag as my entry. It depicts the March Hare holding up the pocket watch at the Mad Hatters Tea Party and declaring 'But it was the BEST Butter' before dipping the whole thing in his tea !

The tag is a manilla tag coated liberally in mustard seed Distress Stain, dried with a heat gun and heat embossed with diamonds through a mask with Versamark ink and detail clear embossing powder. The tag was then swiped over with picket fence Distress stain and wiped with a baby wipe to remove the white stain from the clear embossed diamonds.

Some of the unglazed diamonds were then filled in with a water brush filled with orange dye ink.

I next stamped the top of the tag with a squares and dots border stamp inked with black Archival Ink. Some black dots were added with fine black Posca pen.

The base of the tag was decorated in layers with some pale orange lace, lemon Rik-Rak ribbon and a silver buckle, black & white striped ribbon and spotty paper held in place with two gold staples.

The March Hare (IndigoBlu) was stamped on white card in black Archival Ink and coloured in with Marvey alcohol ink brush pens before cutting out and adhering as shown. The words are maroon self adhesive letters edged with black Posca.

Final touch was to edge the tag in tangerine Versamagic chalk ink and apply a piece of pale gold silk ribbon, tying in place and finishing with two more gold staples.

Sid xx

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Something Fishy .....

Made a tag for a Swap over on UK Stampers Forum Facebook Group ....

I decorated a white card tag with stamps, Distress Oxide Inks and a white pen.  This was attached to a background decorated with Washi tape.  The tag was finished with more Washi tape and alpha stickers.  I used some decorative threads through the hole in the tag and some blue gems to finish.

I do love blue and if you would like to join the group click HERE to join in !

Sid xx

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Panto PC

We have a monthly themed postcard swap over on UK Stampers Forum.  This is mine for January 2015 and the theme is 'Panto'

Must admit I did struggle a bit but ended up using a background of Graphic 45 paper.  I then stamped with Memento ink and decorated the surface using a variety of stamps.

I used alpha stickers to spell out the words and Stickles glitter glues and posca markers to decorate the hearts and produce the edge design. I have sprayed to seal, with matt acrylic sealer.

This card will be sent through the post as it is.

Sid xx

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