My inky travels along life's rocky road

Thursday 5 June 2014

Crafty Individuals Blog Challenge - June


I'm in a summery frame of mind and in the mood for some bright colours so when I decided to enter this month's Crafty Individuals blog challenge I grabbed my Impress inks and got started. The challenge has been chosen by Helen Chilton and is called 'Tag You're It'. I decided to use CI 376 Party Puffin and stamped him with cobalt Archival ink. I paper pieced him with some scraps from Crafty Individuals' Springtime paper pad and gave him a red glossy accented heart. The base tag is stamped with CI 207 Ferns & Grasses in various colours of Impress ink. I then decided it was too bright and wanted to tone it down. Now I know that all you arty types would have reached for gesso or a Fresco paint to do the job but I decided to use vellum (oh alright not exactly vellum but tracing paper from Smiths). I ran it through a Crafters Companion Beatrix Potter embossing folder and used it as an overlay. If you click on the image you should get a better view of the embossed flowers which give a lovely texture to the tag. I added the puffin and some bunting (the stamp is also by Crafty Individuals and came as a thank-you gift with an order). To finish off I added an eyelet (yay that's one less in my hoard!) and a grommet/washer(?) not sure what they're called but I bought a Big Bite case (I only have a Crop-a-dile) with a load of these things a few years ago. It says 'adorable, delightful, charming' which sums up this Puffin beautifully.


If you enter this month's challenge you can get a very desirable 25% discount on your web purchases here.

13 comments:

  1. this is brilliant - I love it! hugs rachel x

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  2. Oh yes, love it! The colours are fab, they work very well together don't they.

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  3. Oh that is gorgeous! Love those summery coloured ferns and grasses and the embossed 'vellum'. The vellum you ave used is very like the pad of 'vellum' I have lol.

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  4. I love your tag!! Your stamped background using different colours is very lovely and the stamped image is so cute!! Hugs, have a lovely week-end. Coco xx

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  5. Lovely colours for this wonderful tag!!!
    Bizz, Sylvie

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  6. The background is very effective and I like the addition of the washer.
    Thank you for entering this great tag into the Crafty Individuals June Challenge.
    Wishes
    Lynne

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  7. Great tag and love your Party Puffin featuring on there so happily. Thank you for entering the CI Challenge. Jean x

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  8. Super, I really like the background.

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  9. It is really fabulous! Summerish, bright and lovely!

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    1. Thanks Gio, it was great to meet you again yesterday at the Craft Barn. Your new masks for Tando are great!

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  10. Oh that's lovely lots of lovely bright colours!

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  11. I love puffins :-) Great work.

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  12. Hi, Love your tag, that little puffin looks so adorable with his shiny heart. Great background too.
    Avril x

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