Sunday 1 June 2014

Just Dreaming


Over on the PA blog Gillian has made a guest appearance between her studying and exams, so I thought it only right to support her. I pretty much followed what she did which you can see here, I just used different substrates, stencils and stamped images.


Helen kindly sent me some die cut petal drops by Tim Holtz and I thought one would work perfect on this tag. So I added GP through a stencil, painted the petal orange, added some stamping and rubbed over the textured areas in ruby treasure gold.


I stamped a couple of the LP oriental images onto yellow painted card and cut them out.


And this is the whole tag put together. I stamped the words just dreaming as I felt it needed something at the bottom to balance it out.


Close up of the textured areas with the treasure gold to enhance them.

Over at Our Creative Corner they have a theme of flaming June where orange has to be a dominant colour.

That's Crafty have a theme of it's all about the texture and you have to use texture paste (in this instance, grunge paste, same thing).

ABAC have a theme of Summer lovin, and thought the bright colours reminded me of summer.

19 comments:

Helen said...

wow, that's a great tag - love how you used the petal die cut.

Darcy Marshall said...

oh this is really cool Sam, brilliant way to interpret the challenge.

Lin said...

Great tag Sam and great use of the massive petal die cuts..that fish is fantastic!! bet he is just dreaming moseying along in the sea lol..lovely bright happy colours xxx

Deborah said...

Fish works perfectly with the bright colours, Sam. Good luck in the That's Crafty! draw.

ionabunny said...

This is gorgeous. Love the colours and the fish

Amanda said...

Great tag totally striking!! Love the fish!
Love
Amanda x

chrissie said...

Terrific tag Sam and beautiful bright colours to show off the Oriental images.

Chrissie x

Deborah Wainwright said...

Lovely tag Sam xx

craftimamma said...

Lovely take on Gillian's inspiration piece. I really wanted to have a go at this one too but ran out of time after my problems with paint/ink v heat, lol! Love the white splatters.

Hugs
Lesley Xx

Sandy said...

Well I definitely love the colors and circles with the white dots.Then your imagination comes into play with a wonderful creative tag - just gurgling along!
Sandy xx

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous tag, the colours are fab.

Sue said...

Really like this one Sam, great choice of images xx

Julia S-W said...

So creative Sam and I love the grunge paste on the background. Your colours work so well together too - clearly you can 'do' orange!! You must have loads of patience to do all that cutting - rather you than me.
Thanks for joining in the challenge at OCC this month.
Hope you are well.
Julia x

Words and Pictures said...

Bold, bright and very cool!
Alison xx

Karin said...

Wow gorgeous tag, great colors and I love the fish!
Groetjes Karin

Mrs Beez said...

Love this. Fabulous colours, layers and textures. Adore the sentiment stamp. Thanks for sharing with us at Anything But A Card this time.

http://blog.timetocreate.com.au/ said...

Isn't the petal shape fresh and versatile Sam? Wow what fabulous bright happy colours you used for your tag. Thank you for linking to Anything But A Card this challenge.

Words and Pictures said...

Oops... thank you for playing along at Our Creative Corner, of course!
Alison xx

Margaret said...

Oh, those bright bold colors are perfect for the summer theme! Your tag is amazing and I'm so glad you joined us again at Anything But a Card!

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