Using Every Little Scrap!

I don't know about you but those Wallflower Stash papers are just FABULOUS and I can't bear to throw even the smallest piece away. So …. I am sharing a tag today made from my scraps! 

I covered my tag with all my little bits using Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium - I 

like to tear the edges it makes them sit a bit better together.

Added some tissue tape here and there.

Covered the whole lot with a wash of gesso and then went back in with

a baby wipe to take some off here and there.

Once this was dried I added some Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - I used the

Crackle Texture Paste, but Embossing Paste will give a lovely effect too.

Once that dried I used some sprays from drawer - now I was bit naughty

here as I didn't take a note of the ones I used and I have some old Glimmer Mist

bottles with no much in them! But I definitely used 

a home-made spray from the Vintage Photo Re-inker.

Whilst everything was drying I fussy cut the rose, leaf and birds and edged them with Vintage Photo

Distress Ink. I also stamped a sentiment from the Simple Sayings Stamp Set with Vintage Photo 

DI on some papers which had already had a coat of Gesso - an experiment

which went a wrong!

I then added my bits and pieces to the tag using some foam mounts for the

rose and the birds.  I just LOVE that rose!

Thank you for joining me today and I would love to know what you do with your scraps!

Jennie x

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Tags #12, Manila, Approx 5.12" x 10.5", 12.8cms x 26.25cms	Tim Holtz Paper Stash 12x12 - Wallflower	Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium - Studio matte	Wendy vecchi - embossing paste - white	Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso
Distress ink pad - Vintage photo	Tim Holtz Distress Re-inker Vintage Photo	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Misters (3 pack)	Tim Holtz stamps - Simple sayings

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A floral whisper…

A combination of stamping and die cutting today with my floral whisper card...

I've started with an 8" x 8" card blank so have cut the mats accordingly. The background started as plain white card dabbed all over with Distress inks (DIs) of Dusty concord, Seedless preserve, Milled lavendar and Shaded lilac. Once inked, the card was misted with water so that the coloured blended together:

Tissue wrap was torn and glued into place using Matte Medium before dry brushing white Gesso roughly over the top:

Next came the stencilling, two different patterns, again in patches:

The card needed a mat which was cut and then the centre removed (only the outer edges are seen):

To make the flower, I used certain elements from the Sizzix Bigz Peony die (by Susan Tiernay-Cockburn) although I haven't made it up the way Sizzix have shown. I love the amazing Blooms impression tool (which is hard to keep in stock!) to shape the petals:

Making up the bloom, petal by petal:

Lin Brown's ELB05 stamp set (Eclectica³ for PaperArtsy) has some beautiful texts based around florals so I chose one from that to stamp and emboss with a lilac embossing powder. This has been cut and mounted on an old (Sizzix) die cut photo frame, decorated with a strip of washii tape and white pen:

The leaves for the flower have been stamped using white (Snow cap) ink and then edged. The ptals have also been 'dusted' with ink around the tops too:

A floral rub-on stuck onto the same colour card as the base and then cut using the Sizzix postage stamp dies makes one decorative element. The scroll from the Sizzix Thinlits Ornate hanging sign (by Jen Long-Philipsen) makes a gorgeous decoration simply by sniping it away from the sign. Both elements have been edged, of course!:

A butterfly and a bee from Tim's Botanical remnant rubs have been used to decorate another corner:

Layered up:

A corner of matching dotty paper from my scrap box has been edged and used under this fragment and added to the top left corner. Left side:

Right side:

Focal section:

Completed:

Most of us love flowers and this card can be used/adapted for any occasion.

Thanks for visiting, have a lovely day,

Chris xxx

My corner of Heaven

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