Say it with flowers!

Happy weekend to you all!  Hope you enjoyed your Easter break last weekend; I managed to fill my Easter week by meeting up with some wonderful friends and also got some much needed sorting done, so hopefully I'm better prepared for a busy time coming up :)

 I have a tag to share today using a set of Paperartsy background stamps I was lucky to pick up in the sale; I love doing backgrounds and I often have trouble covering them up with a main feature but I went for some embellishment on this tag with some small paper roses (made using die cuts from the Alterations tattered floral die).  The background colours are Distress Ink in shaded lilac, squeezed lemonade and peacock feathers with some ink splats in broken china and scattered straw Distress Stain.  The stamped images are black and coffee Archival and poppy red Impress Ink, with some overstamped script in picket fence Distress Stain.

You can also see a little strip of washi tape with the word 'faith' peeping out from behind the flowers at the bottom :)

You can find tutorials on how to make the paper roses online; I was taught how to make them by Hels Sheridan at a workshop so here's the link to her tutorial.

You can see the pieces I started out with here, stamped with script in coffee Archival Ink...

...and then coloured in Distress Ink (in dusty concord, peacock feathers and squeezed lemonade)...

...this is the rose assembled...

...which I then sprayed with a little black Dylusions Ink to grunge it up a bit.

Along with the flowers I added some brown cord, some Tim Holtz and 7gypsies tickets (torn and inked), some pearl hatpins, an Ideaology fragment with a piece of stamped manila card glued to the back (with my initial!) and some yellow baker's twine tying it onto the pin.

I finished up by inking the edges with dusty concord and frayed burlap Distress Ink and some black Archival, and by tying on some Basic Grey fibres I've had tucked away for ages; the colours seem to match really well!

Thank you for visiting us today, have a great weekend and hopefully we'll have some exciting news to share with you in the very near future so watch this space :)

Happy scrapping!

Gayle xx

Layered tag... and a change of plans!

Hi and welcome! It's Saturday and although I should have been winging my way up to Birmingham for the ICHF show the weather has put paid to our plans :/ but thank you Scrap 365 for the tickets, it was a great prize but just not meant to be this time around!

My post this week is my old favourite, tags of course!  This has more layers than I care to remember :) I nearly chucked it away!  I was persuaded to keep on adding layers (thanks K!) and I like the way it came out :) 

I used a vintage image at the bottom of the tag, some torn paper on the edges, some tissue tape and just layers and layers (and layers and layers - you get the idea!) of Distress Ink and Distress Stain.  The stamps are mainly Stampers Anonymous but I have some Andy Skinner text in there, and some butterflies from Craft Stamper magazine :)

 Yes, I managed to catch some rare sunshine in this pic and couldn't resist sticking my tag right in the beams!  Always love how everything looks that bit different in the sunshine :)

Don't forget to check out our Twitter, Facebook page and Facebook chat group to see if you're a winner of a RAK for Craft Month this March... it could be you!

Have a great weekend and wrap up warm :)

Happy scrapping!

Gayle xx

Congratulations!

Hi and welcome! I have a card to share with you today which I made to wish a very good friend congratulations on her recent engagement.

The card uses broken china and tarnished brass Distress Stains for the background, layered and spritzed with water and dried inbetween with a heat gun.

 The edging and the main stamped images are in Dusty Concord Distress Ink with the paler script stamped in Shaded Lilac, and the stamp set is IndigoBlu Sarah's Choice with a Stampers Anonymous flourish in the corners.  The butterfly was a free stamp from Craft Stamper magazine which I stamped in coffee Archival and spritzed with Sunset Strip Shimmerz Paint, and then cut out to stick onto the card.

When I searched out my button jar I had some buttons in matching colours so added these for embellishment.

Wishing the happy couple all the very best, they are lovely together!

Thanks for visiting today, look out for some exciting news soon and a chance to win some goodies!

Happy scrapping!

Gayle xx

Twilight tag!

Not that it was the intention at the time, but looking at it now this reminds me very much of a teenage vampire movie!  Must have been having an angsty moment :-D

The background is fired brick Distress Stain with splats of tarnished brass, stamped with a Tim Holtz heart and caption and edged with mahogany and soot Distress Ink.  I overstamped with a Tim Holtz script stamp in picket fence.  The tattered floral rose was inked and sprayed in layers, some fired brick Distress and some peach Glimmer Mist, with gold Stickles to embellish.

The heart is outlined in opal Liquid Pearls, and I layered on some black lace at the bottom and in a bow on top to finish.

Definitely must have been feeling a goth mood! :-D

On a lighter crafty note, I also posted today at The Stamp Attic with another Christmas project so please hop over there for a visit if you like the look of this sneak peek :)

Have a wonderful weekend, happy scrapping!

Gayle xx

Love and layers

Happy Friday!  I have a tag to share with you today; admit I went a bit OTT with the layers on this tag so not entirely sure which stamps I used!  But the main image is Crafty Individuals, and the LOVE stamp is from a Tim Holtz set.  The dragonfly I stamped and cut out from the original stamp, then coloured and outlined and glued back on to the tag.

The colours are mostly blue and yellow Distress inks and stains, with tarnished brass Distress Stain in the background and stamped on top, with the main images stamped in black Archival.  The ribbon is a scrap from the large jar of bits and pieces I keep on my shelf :)

I've also posted at The Stamp Attic today (yup I have Christmas DT supplies!) so if you want to see more than this sneak peek please pop over to the blog and say hi :)

Thanks for visiting today!  Have a great weekend, happy scrapping :)

Gayle xx