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Friday 22 November 2013

String at the sunday stamper

Good morning lovelies! How are you today? I'm  feeling a bit housebound as we're having a condensation unit fitted at the moment and so I couldn't go out at all yesterday and today looks set to be a repeat! Still its useful in as much as I can get some much needed and neglected jobs done. Or I can craft!!!!! Lol!!!!

Today I want to show you a tag I made for the Sunday Stamper - the challenge this week is string - well as soon as I saw that I knew i wanted to do one of the string bows I keep seeing over on pieces by tracyevans - that was the starting point for this tag and everything else evolved around it.



I must tell you - I'm very happy with this piece - love that stamp from Crafty Individuals - thats going to be featured again very soon I should think! Okay - to make my tag I've firstly stamped the snowflake and swirly borders from a set of stamps by sheena douglass - in versamark and added sparkling white wow powders and heat set. Then I used distress inks - antique linen, tea dye, walnut stain and weathered wood and tumbled glass to complete the background. Once dry I stamped the words in versa again and added gold detail powder and heat set. The image was simply stamped on a piece of paper in sepia archival then the image was cut out and mounted on the tag.Then I added the string (twine with some DI added to grunge it up) and finally the jewel! This was from chloes.

I'd like to enter my tag into the challenges at the Sunday stamperpinkleart-283-string-of-pearls and also

Wow embossing powder challengewowembossingpowder: Christmas
rhedd and rosiesrheddandrosies: Christmas is coming
Divas:divasbydesignchallenge make it pretty
cute card Thursdaycutecardthursday: ABAC
PCJpaper-craftingjourney: Bling it up
glitter -n- sparkle - tag itglitternsparklechallengeblog

Thanks for popping by today and for any comments you choose to leave - I had a commenters candy yesterday if you missed it just go for the older post!

Big Hugs for a happy Friday!

Rachel x

31 comments:

  1. love the colours and you have perfected the string bow! Love the main image you have used too x hope the work is finished soon...hugs trace x

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  2. Hello Rachel, love it, love it, loveit!!!!
    Absoloutley gorgeous, perfect image and background colouring, love your gold sentiment, have a good day, hope you get some crafting in, hugs Kate x

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  3. Hi Rachel what a fabulous tag! Love your string bow and I must say I really love the swirly stamps at the top and bottom they are gorgeous! Susan x

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  4. This is stunning Rachel. Such a gorgeous image, I love the background and wonderful string bow too.
    hugs Sue xx

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  5. Great tag, love that your starting point was a string bow rather than the image. Great embossing

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  6. Great tag Rachel, lovely image and a gorgeous bow

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  7. Beautiful Tag. I love what you have created with this one Rachel. It's really stunning. Hugs Rita xxx

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  8. A gorgeous tag Rachel, I love the string bow.

    Sue x

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  9. Your tag is stunning Rachel and I really love your Tracy-esque bow, it looks perfect on your beautiful tag. Hugs, Anne x

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  10. Good morning sweetie, what a fabulous creation :0) Hugs Pops x

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  11. Beautiful tag, Thank you for joining in Rhedd and Rosie's, good luck Hun, Zoe DT xxx

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  12. Very pretty tag sweetie. Thank you for sharing your lovely creation with us at Paper Crafting Journey.

    Hugs
    Cathy DT Member
    xxxxxx

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  13. Beautiful. I love the string bow & the BLING! Hugs Bev x

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  14. Love your tag and its gorgeous colors! Great treatment of the twine!

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  15. Hi Rachel, what a huge thrill to have inspired you. So pleased you like my string bows, I am addicted to them lol. I have used one again on the Creative Expressions Craft Facebook page lol. Your tag is gorgeous. Absolutely love the image and your touch of gold. Lovely bow too. I must thank you too for,your lovely comments that you leave on my blog. Thank you. Tracy x x

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  16. Gorgeous tag and love the string bow.

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  17. It is a sweet stamp and one of the CI stamps I don't actually have in my overflowing box of CI stamps (actually two large boxes!)
    The bow is a beautiful addition especially with that large gem - such a lovely tag you have shared in this post.
    Wishes
    Lynne

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  18. Hi Rachel, gorgeous Tag, I love ♥ it. Thank you for all your lovely comments too. xxx

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  19. This is a gorgeous tag Rachel, wonderful string bow.
    Pauline
    x

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  20. That's gorgeous Rachel, love the bow, thanks for the link to Tracy's blog - popped over to have a look and have now followed. Have a lovely weekend xx

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  21. Thank you for sharing this beautiful tag with us at Rhedd and Rosie's challenge, good luck! xx

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  22. Hi Rachel I just love everything about your tag and the gold sentiment just sets the whole thing off!! Hugs Jennifer xx

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  23. A beautiful tag Rachel and love your little string bow.
    Mags
    x

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  24. Just getting five minutes to look at what folk have blogged today and it's nearly 11 o'clock at night it's been all go today. Your tag is lovely, Hazel xx

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  25. Beautifully stamped and love your details too, this is lovely Rachel :o) Hugs, Lisa x

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  26. Very pretty tag! Love your style! Thank you for joining us for our Tag Me challenge at Glitter n Sparkle. All the best in our draw!

    KT Fit Kitty
    Glitter n Sparkle DT

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  27. wow this is just gorgeous
    thank you for joining us at glitter n sparkle
    lindyloo dt x

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  28. Pretty! Thank you for playing with us at Glitter N Sparkle Challenge! **Cheryl** Glitter N Sparkle DT

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  29. Gorgeous tag Rachel, love the special bow... Thanks for joining in with the Sunday Stamper x

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  30. Beautiful tag love the image and fantasticc string bow and jewel
    Carol x

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  31. its adorable thanks for joining us over on divas by designs x

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