Butterfly Tag

Hello and welcome to November!

For the challenge "Tags only", hosted from the lovely Jo, at Country View Challenges, I made a pretty simple tag. I took my Gelli Plate and had a little fun session. This is, what came out.

I made some blue prints in different shades of blue first and diecut the beautiful butterflies from Tim Holtz.

Then I spreat out violet, magenta and light blue acrylic paint on my page and printed it on a tag. Then I put some jeans blue acrylic paint in a thin layer on the Gelli plate, put an old blue jeans on top and pulled the print with my tag. I was so very excited how it turned out (so that I forgot to take a photo, sorry).

When the paint was dry, I gave some modeling paste through a stencil randomly to the tag and put it away to dry.

Meanwhile I made my butterflies. I diecut the pieces and glued them together and glued the butterflies down on my tag.

Now I distressed the edges with black Archival ink, printed the words with my Dymo label maker to embellish the tag and added three ribbons in fitting colours at the top hole and that´s it!

I hope you like my tag as much as I do!

Here are some more pictures:

 

Now it´s up to you to make a tag for the challenge! You can win a 20 £ voucher to spend in the shop!

Thank you for your visit!

Cat Tag

Hello lovelies, nice to have you here!

Today I want to share with you my second project for the "Cats & Dogs" challenge over at Countryview Challenges. 

This time I made a little dreamy tag with a diecut cat from my stash.

I took a tag and glued a recently made gelprint on top. Then I stamped the leaves and stems with black VersaFine Clair and put also some ink to the edges. Then I glued the diecut cat to the tag. I guess I got this with a happy mail, I can´t remember. Then I drew the whiskers with a black fineliner and a white gelpen. To ground the cat I scribbled some lines with a black stabilo all and activated it with water.

To finish the tag I gave the cat something to look at and fuzzy cut and glued down a butterfly.

I think I will use this tag as a bookmark!

Here are some close ups:

That´s it for today!

Now I hope you will find time for some cats & dogs for our challenge. Looking forward to seeing your makes!

You know, you can win a 20 £ voucher for the shop!

Thank you for your visit today!

Artist Trading Coins II for Country View Challenges

Hello everybody!

We have a wonderful theme this month at Country View Challenges, chosen by the lovely Debs - Artist Traiding Coins!

These little cuties are really addictive, they are so versatile to create and really fun. If you didn´t try to make some of them, you really should! And if you do some, why not link the result of your play to our challenge? We really would love to see them, and you have the chance to win a 20 £ voucher to spend in the shop!

Here is my second row of ATCoins

And this is how I made them:

Recently I found a recipe on how to make your own Gelli plate - so I gave it a try and once the home made plate was ready to use, I had a play.

This paper is the ghost print of a page and I loved the look of it.

I cut out some coins (2 1/2" diameter), glued them on some cardboard to make them sturdier and distressed them with some Distress Oxides in walnut stain.



I used the new Visible Image Stamps "you are not alone", which you can find in the shop here, and stamped the hands on specialty stamping paper with Archival Ink in Jet Black. When dry, I colored them with Faber Castell Polycromos, fuzzy cut them.
Next I took another stamp set from Visible Image called "Ahead of our time", which you can also find in the shop here. I took the stamp platform and stamped the little girl and man on specialty stamping paper. I stamped two times with Archival Ink Jet Black to make sure, the little figures are really black inked. When dry I fuzzy cut them too.

Now I arranged the pieces on my ATCoins, surrounded the little figures with a white Gelpen and added words from Tim Holtz´s Small Talk Stickers. On the back of the coins I glued some light weight brown cardstock and framed them on the edges with a black brush marker.

Here are my coins one after the other:

Now I hope you liked them and I´m looking forward to seeing your little cuties!
Thank you for your visit today and have a good time!