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Tuesday, 4 June 2013

June tag

Good weather has kept me in the garden :-) which is why there has been a wait for this post! I started day before yesterday & at last I've got a result.
No distress paints other than black & white in my collection, only chipped sapphire & dried marigold markets....

So I have pretty much followed Tim's instructions, used 2 felt pens that are close to "picked raspberry" & "worn lipstick" plus the dried marigold marker to colour the dragonfly, dusty concord DI for the accent & a grey felt for the shadows. A touch of picket fence distress paint for highlight & gathered twigs for the edges. I used watered felt tip for the splats. 

The tag has been dragged through spritzed DI picked raspberry /dried marigold & dusty concord then edged in gathered twigs. I have lightly stamped the tag with the background stamp from the Papillon set & then  stamped the row of butterflies a little heavier in archival black.

The paper ribbon I coloured using worn lipstick & dried marigold DI. it's been tied as a double bow & held onto the tag with a short length of a Caron thread. 

I hope you all like it - it was fun to work in wild colours for a change!



8 comments:

  1. This is gorgeous!! I think you should work in WILD colors more often!! ;-) Love how the background turned out and how it makes the dragonfly just pop! Beautiful!!! =D

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    1. Your comment about wild colours really made smile because these are ones that I often use in my embroideries!

      Sal

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  2. Love your Tag, very colourful. When I saw it made me think of picking berry's in the woods. Great job.

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  3. Gorgeous tag-such pretty colours and beautiful stamping :)
    Nessa xx

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  4. Beautiful tag Sally...adore that colour combo :)

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  5. Ooh, I haven't seen some of those colours used before - glorious!! Thanks for sharing.

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  6. The colors are down right delicious!! Great tag!

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  7. This tag is awesome! Love the colours!
    Just stopping by to thank you for the comment on my blog! ♥

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