A little bit rusty….

Hi everyone, Nikki (Addicted to Art) here to share the making of this tag with you today. Sorry to say this is my second project this month with no step x step photos due to my lack of camera at the time.

I  began by inking a tag with stormy sky distress ink and then spritzing and flicking some water on it. Once dry I took vintage photo ink and randomly inked through Tim Holtz's doily layering stencil.

I die cut the doily on the left of the tag out of some cardstock (Sissix die – On the edge – distressed doily) and used distressed paints in stormy sky, salty ocean and vintage photo. Randomly dab one colour on, dry it, move on to the next colour to give the variegated colour. The same techinque was used on the ‘Beautiful’ letters ( cut from the Sissix thinlets - Handwritten Love).

The frame under the text was coloured with distress sprays in the same colours.

My butterfly, game spinner and cogs were painted with vintage photo distress paint and a little weathered wood embossing powder added and heat embossed. The butterfly is cut from ‘Butterfly Duo’.

I added a few chit chat stickers (after inking them) and added some string to my tag.

Thanks for looking today – see you next time.

Nikki

Addicted to Art

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Elegant script card by Chris W

A simple elegant card that you can add any salutation to and use for virtually any occasion…

This card features the Tim Holtz Tornnotepad On the edge die and one of the new Spellbinders D-Lites Shapeability dies called Gardenweave. The faux script background was created using the That special touch Script mask.

  

The torn ‘letter’ makes use of both sides of the Torn notepad die and if your script stamp is too wide you simple mask off the sides with low tack tape before you stamp to get the margins.

The Garden weave die adds a simple but elegant feature and some texture to the card before adding the flower. The faux script is quite large but I like that as it contrasts with the smaller script of the stamp.

This card can be made in any colour you like and lends itself well to being distressed or grunged if that’s your thing. (For those of you who don’t follow my blog I rarely leave anything undistressed, lol.) You can add your own salutation to the top right or centre of the letter to celebrate any event you want. If you want to view, print or download the instructions please click HERE.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Chris xxx