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