Tuesday 22 May 2012

Pastel Tag


This week Pan Pastel UK Challenge are asking for pastel colours.  I went back to my old faithful canvas ~ corrugated card.  I cut a piece in the shape of a tag, peeled back some of the first layer and gave it a couple of coats of butternut eco-friendly paint.  Once dry I applied sand eco-friendly paint to the edges.  I ripped a piece of white copier paper, stamped it in versa mark with the script from the TH papillon plate.  Used the violet and turquoise pan pastels to pop the image and colour the background.  (Well I had to use some pp's with it being the pp challenge.)  I coloured the butterflies using the new spring limited edition of distress inks, gave them a spritz of water, stamped them onto white cardstock and cut them out.  I rolled a piece of text paper, tied it with a bow that I had made from white fabric and dyed with dusty concord distress stain and placed it on the copier paper.   I stamped the words 'happy place' onto a piece of white cardstock in shaded lilac distress ink and coloured it with squeezed lemonade.  I added the pearls, the fabric flowers and stapled the loop of fabric at the top.  I finished by edging the tag with dusty concord distress stain.

12 comments:

Von said...

Boy you have been busy Sam :) Love the colours on your tag and what you have done with the pear stamp
Von x♥x

...the yorkshire fox... said...

...oooo tis gorgeous Sam, loVely sherbert lemon fizz bombs spring to mind, corrugated card is a great element for texture, loVe all your ingredients they make for a super Tag...Mel :)

Neet said...

That's lovely Sam - you are good with these PP's - now to investigate how I can use them.
Hugs, Neet xx

downrightcrafty said...

wow love that scroll looks great have you been tearing books up again, so worth it by the way love this
Hugs Kate xx

alison said...

Beautiful!!! xx

hazel said...

A beautiful tag, such pretty colours.
xxx Hazel.

Sue said...

This is fab Sam, I love these colours, and it has a lovely Summery feel to it x

Marianne said...

Really beautiful!! Love the butterflies and the colours you used!! Hugs,
Marianne

Lindsay Craftymonster81 said...

Such a gorgeous tag, I love the pastel colours and the butterflies and the scroll look gorgeous. Thank you for joining in with the PanPastel challenge blog.
Lindsay xx

P.s. this would also fit perfectly in to the LEJ Designs anything but a card challenge

Gillian .... said...

Oooo Sam, the colours are perfect, very refreshing, love the corrugated base, thanks for sharing at PanPastel UK. xx

Chris said...

Great tag, Sam. Love the colours and the texture.

M said...

Love the scroll in the middle! M x

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