Explore Everything Tag

Ooooh it's been, and still is, so hot today. I was urging to do something but I really was so hot and bothered, however I did manage this tag using Seth's stamps and dies and distress oxides. I finally cracked open the fossilized amber! The good thing is, it's great weather to get a decent photo!

Colour Challenge

Emma and I are having another colour challenge, this time I chose the colours and elements.  Colours are as above and had to include script/text, at least one die cut and a stamped image.

I covered a piece of corrugated in TH patterned papers and cut a recess which I covered in text book paper.  I painted the tag, pediment die and frame in fresco inks, I mixed various colours until I got the one I wanted.  I then stamped some script in versamark ink, covered in sticky embossing powder, heated up and added black foil.

Stamped various other images, cut them out and coloured them with seedless preserves distress ink. The main image is a PA mini stamped in black archival.

3 Circles Tag

Over at Stampotique this week they are asking to see 3 circles.  Background is coloured with shades of pan pastels, the tree is stamped in versamark and covered in sticky embossing powder, which was heated and covered with dry glitter.  Once dried I coloured the glittered tree with renaissance treasure gold.  Stamped the scrolls and splodges in wild honey and rusty hinge distress ink. The faces were stamped in saddle brown stazon and coloured again with the treasure gold.

Corrugated Hanger

Another LP image stamped in versamark, heated with sticky embossing powder and covered in guilding flakes, again the detail is fabulous.

Home made washi tape down the right hand side and a few lilac gems down the left.

Mounted onto corrugated painted in shades of mushroom, eggplant and squid ink fresco paints.

Guilded Hanger

I was interested to see how the guilding flakes worked with the fine detailed LP stamps.  I was amazed that there was some black showing through round the shoulders and body of the image.  The photo's not that great, but it does look quite good in real life.

I used a piece of my home made washi tape across the bottom, tore the black card, added some treasure gold and tied a piece of white and red twill around the bottom.

I took the string off the hanger and replaced it with some thicker red cord.  The hanger is painted in blood orange fresco paint.

A Bit of Black n White

Another built up frame using the TH dies, stamps and lots of 3d foam!!

I decided to stick to black and white this time.  The frames were coloured in fresco paints and stamped with TH images in versamark ink.  Sticky embossing powder was poured over and then heated.  Schizzle foil in the opposite colours was pressed into the sticky, hot powder.  Unfortunately I put the foil on the pediment the wrong way round which is why it's not very sharp!!  

The main TH image was stamped on white card with black stazon, the dice beads were added and the lock and key were hi-lighted with pewter treasure gold.  The crown is from a Cuttlebug die/embossing set with black gems added.

The sun came out this afternoon so I took another photo in natural day light.

A symbol of the Orient

The base is the postage stamp TH die cut in black card.  The main image was stamped in versamark,  heat embossed in black powder and coloured with London bus fresco paint as were the pediments.  Sticky embossing powder was applied to them and black foil stuck on, that would be schizzle foil.

The 3 smaller images were stamped, cut out and the top and bottom, mounted onto red card.

This is another photo of it taken in daylight with the sun out showing the more true colours!!

It's a Wrap

Over at Stampotique this week Jo has chosen the theme of Christmas wrapping.  I was quite limited to what I could do as I don't have that many Stampotique Christmas stamps, although to enter the challenge you don't have to use the Stampotique range, it's just that I wanted to.  So using Daniels Tree, the Baubles and my Alphabitties I set to it.

The tag I made using the Stampotique Scary Angel. She's actually called the tree topper but I prefer scary angel.

This is a close up of the clear embossed tree with just a bit of sparkle added.

***Edited***

I made top 3 with this creation

Orange Metal Leafy Tag - DD TIO

Over at Dragons Dream - Tag it on, Helen has chosen this weeks recipe for the challenge.

My recipe is called 'Leaf Me Alone' and I challenge you to use on your tag, the colour orange, some metal and leaves. Please use one 'real' stamp.

The background is Dylusion spray inks, squeezed orange and orange with a splash of mica (from the pre-Ranger range).  I used T!m's mini leaves and stamped them in the background in Brilliance gold.  The panels were stamped in sticky embossing powder and guilding flakes were added and scrubbed off to leave a fabulous detailed image and coloured with orange (280.5) pan pastel.  I edged them in gold ink, added orange eyelets and linked them together with metal chain.

***Edited - 24/10/12***

My tag made top 3 of TIO