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Monday 20 June 2011

A tag with a flower

Week 3 at our Make My Monday, the monthly theme of Flowers continues, the challenge for you this week is to make a tag with a flower, it can be on it's own or part of card. Using Cut & Dry foam I rubbed several TH Distress inks onto the cut cream card. Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalde, Scattered Straw and Walnut Stain. Heat dried it, sprinkled water from my fingers, again heat dried. I then stamped with Memento Onyx Black ink pad my latest, wonderful stamp from Hero Arts, Gratitude.  I re-stamped the flower, coloured it with Spiced Marmalade, cut it out and applied as a second layer, added a glaze to help to emphasise the flower, but I think too much of the glaze ran to the centre, now that it's dried properly it looks so much better. Leson learnt - "be patient and wait for wet parts to dry." I added a few swirls where there were big gaps and finished off with a black braid tied into a bow.

8 comments:

  1. Really love this tag Caz. The background stamping and colours are beautiful and the flower gorgeous.
    Hugs, Fliss xx

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  2. Beautiful tag Caz, gorgeous colours and I love that stamp. I can never wait for things to dry either lol
    Claire xx

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  3. Rich in colour and in stamping Stunning Tag. XOXO Zoe

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  4. The colours are real rich looking, its a super tag. Yvonne xx

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  5. Brilliant tag, but wait for wet parts to dry? What does that mean?

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  6. Patience? Dont know what you're talking about. Its a stunning tag teamie!

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  7. This is a stunner! I love the stamped background and that glossy flower. I know exactly what you mean about patience as I have none whatsoever!

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