PaperArts Tag challenge

So, the lovely people at paperarts are having a challenge this weekend. The only stipulation is that you need to use an embossing folder somewhere on the tag. This is to celebrate the fact they are having a two for one sale on all Tim Holtz Texture fades right now.

I entered this tag:

It is a 8 1/4 by 3 1/2 piece of  200gsm card embossed with the Cuttlebug script folder. I texturized the top using Tim Holtz tissue tape, fusible film and PVA glue. Left it to dry then went over with Alcohol inks. The bottom was drybrushed, as were the cogs, with black and browns. The edging is Distress Crackle paint in antiqued bronze. The whole tag looked like this before I put the adornments on it:

The top set of flowers is an acrylic set which came in clear. I applied Alcohol inks in butterscotch and Raison with a very small paintbrush. I did leave one of the flowers clear to let the fusible film shimmer through. They are sat on a gold mirror card piece punched with a Nellie Snellen die on my cuttlebug.

The cogs were drybrushed the same colours as the bottom of the tag and then I put a small piece of gold mirror card under them.

The Play ticket is from Tim Holtz Adage tickets and distressed with Vintage photo ink.

Hope you enjoy it!
Shell

Honey i'm home!

So, here we are! Nearly two years on and not much wiser to be honest :)

A lot has happened in the past two years and to quickly summerise we have had a human addition to the family, two pet losses and three new pets!

I have had a some time to get back into my crafting and now thanks to a wonderful shop I frequent I am into scrapbooking! Thanks PaperArts (link below).  I have only created two pages from scratch but I am really pleased with both of them! I am really enjoying altering tags too.  Oh and I created a fab altered bookbox after I took a Andy Skinner class.

This is my first scrapbook page!



This is my husband and daughter, I really love the way this one turned out. The main page is distress inked in peeled paint.  There were two layered pieces under the photo, the top one is peeled paint and faded jeans over gesso! It looks fab.

The bottom layer was a glossy cardstock with alcohol inks in Butterscotch and Lettuce.

I used a piece of paper from K and Co Speciality sparkle pad and edged it with a fiskers edge punch. I took plain ivory pearls and coloured them in with a green promarker and stuck these on the holes in the pattern down the edge.

The words were pink cardstock cut out on my Cricut using the George basic cartridge.

The pea pod was a labour of love! I am awful at drawing and despite my best efforts all of my peas came out looking squashed or just plain not pea pod like. I trawled the net for a free template and then printed it off. I punched two peas from green cardstock and put glossy accents on them to make them stand up. Stuck it all down and voila my first page!

So a sneaky peek at my second page I will post asap:

PaperArts website is http://www.paperarts.co.uk/ they are fab people and cheap as well!

See you soon