It's been a busy couple of weeks so I was disappointed to time out on last week's Dragon's Dream Tag It On Challenge :o( This week, however, I'm getting my tag in nice and early.
I couldn't resist a bit of fun with this one so I dug out one of my favourite PaperArtsy stamps - the fabulous bus - and got to work with a quote from one of my favourite films. It made me smile and I hope it makes you smile too.
Check out the lovely stencilled herringbone bricks.
It's one from a new range of great mini-stencils at That's Crafty (my fab local craft emporium). I believe they are being released this month. I'm already addicted :oD They're the perfect size for tags and ATC's
Heads up people. Leandra is hosting a new range of PaperArtsy Hotpicks over at the PaperArtsy Blog tonight and I was lucky to get to play with two of the sets.
Both sets of stamps have so many great images to use. I've had my sewing machine out lately and The images just seemed to cry out for a little free motion embroidery. I used some on the tulip for this tag and on the fish for my card. I think they look a bit like mackerel
I used Fresco paints on both items. They work beautifully on fabric.
For the base of each project I used about five colours stamped randomly onto kraft card - squid ink, toffee, chalk, rose and blue oyster
So, first up is my tag, called Astonishing Beauty. I've used lots of elements from both stamps sets. I love the fact you can mix and match them to get the effect you want
and the card I called Plenty More Fish in the Sea. I am now officially addicted to Squid Ink Fresco Paint. It is LUSH!!! I swirled three shades of Fresco paints very loosely through some heavy gel medium to give the graduation on the stenciled brick wall
Zip over to the Paperartsy blog to see ALL the new stamp sets and some really great samples from the Paperartsy gang. You won't be disappointed.
Here's my tag for Dragon's Dream. I love green so I thought I'd use more of it on the tag. However, once I started stamping, Clean and Simple seemed to be the way to go...
I love this quote and the simplicity of the font.
I used Versafine ink in Toffee, Olympia Green and Spanish Moss. The quote is stamped with black Archival ink.
The stamps are all from the same set by Chapel Road Art Stamps. It's set to be a firm favourite so brace yourselves to see it again and again :oD
