Monday 20 March 2017

Tag You're It! - and some colouring....

Had a fabulous weekend just playing with my stash... I did some colouring, embossing paste and Pixie powders, and made a tag for the Tag You're It challenge. 

The guest designer for Tag, You're It this time is Marion Vagg and here is her delightful sample


Here's the tag I was inspired to make

I took my inspiration from her embossing paste background, focal flower, and use of black labels for the sentiment. 

I took a manilla tag and used a Hero Arts stencil and some light modelling paste and covered some of it.  I then gathered together some already cut die cut elements... blue vellum leaves, some green sprigs and an Altenew flower coloured with iridescent paint and fussy cut, and added them to my card.  I used my computer to print the sentiment which I trimmed and added to my tag.  All in all very happy with the result. 

And here is the technique piece I did with some embossing paste and Pixie Powders (similar to ColorBursts) - following a video by Ingrid Blackburn I watched.


It really shimmers in real life as the Pixie Powders have a lot of mica in them.   I also pulled a pattern off the watercolour on the stencil.  It's much less as bright and graphic, more smooshed and abstract but will use it for something.  Not sure what I will do with this one yet but it is too nice to cover up!

And finally I did some pencil colouring using Gamsol (mineral spirits) after watching a Gina K video, 


I did this on some 200GSM watercolour paper but feel it would have been better on a smoother card.  However, the result looked quite amazing.   I splattered some black ink on the background and white embossed the sentiment onto black card.  All the stamps are from an Altenew set. 


I'm entering this into the challenge at City Crafter Challenge - Spring is around the corner.  From the inspiration photo I took the word flowers and thought about spring flowers and also another entry into The Flower Challenge.... Anything Goes.   They generously allow you to enter up to 5 times... this will be my 4th entry. 

Hope your weekend was as much fun as mine... with all this crafting as well as quite a bit of socialising with friends! 

9 comments:

kiwimeskreations said...

What a wonderful weekend you must have had Dawn - these are amazing results, and that tag is a stunner!
Blessings
Maxine

Ros Crawford said...

Lovely creations here! Such a sweet and lovely card for our challenge! Thanks so much for playing along at CCCB!!

Stella said...

Your cards and tag are fab! I espcially the texture you added at your tag. That flower really stands out. Your card with watercolouring is a gem. But the second card witha CAS design is also a beauty! Thanks so much for joining us at CCCB!

Greta said...

I actually worked the weekend, so yours sounds much better, Dawn--haha! Beautiful tag & I adore the piece you made with the stencil & powders--gorgeous!

Marion said...

I love all the different elements on your tag. Great job.

Jeanne J. said...

Oh Dawn! Wonderful projects! I love the tag with the embossing paste - it looks like lace!

Monika Reeck said...

Woow the Tag is stunning Dawn.
Lovely colors on your first card and feminin one on the 3rd card..
You are a busy bee Dawn

Viv said...

Such a pretty card for our challenge Dawn, love all your other creations too.Thanks for sharing with us over at 'The Flower Challenge' and we hope to see you again soon ;) Viv DT xx

creationsnz said...

Such an array of wonderful work. LOVE those roses. CarolG