Friday, March 5, 2010

IT'S A CELEBRATION "OOH LA LA"

Gingersnap Creations have given me the honor of being a Gingersnap Gem, this is such an honor. This group is so wonderful and they offer so many tutorials on a wide variety of techniques. That is how this particular tag came to be. Ink on Your Fingers by Hels has a wonderful tutorial on "faux flowers" and this really intrigued me. Didn't have any of the supplies but went out immediately and found UTEE and a melting pot.


Hels suggested stamping the flowers, but I didn't have a flower stamp that would work so I used my flower die cuts by Spellbinder and used patterned papers. It was really amazing how the paper kept its shape, was a little afraid that it would tear, but that wasn't the case, did learn that you do have to shape your flowers before dipping the paper in the UTEE. Once a couple of flowers were completed it was now necessary to decide how they would be used. Think they would be wonderful on gift boxes, photo boxes, or as a pin just to mention a few.





I found these chipboard tags at Michaels in their $1 bins and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to challenge myself (Scrappy Frog Challenge) by doing a collage on the tag. It's a celebration (Gingersnap Creations) and used one color and shades of that color (Crafty Creations) and these wonderful papers from Lasting Impressions was yelling to be used. The color gold is really different from the bright colors that I usually use. Added different textures 3 dimensional flower, button, pearls, chipboard sentiments, ribbon and even some gold glitter on the leaves. Crazy 4 Challenges was requesting 3 textures, think that I may have gone a little overboard on this one, but love the results.





Hope you can see some of the detail, the mix of papers and all the different textures. Will be making doing some more of these wonderful flower very soon, want to try and use leaves and different shapes not just flowers. A special thanks to Hels for this wonderful tutorial, you have opened up a new technique for me and my mind going a mile a minute to try and come up with ways to use the technique.

Time to head off to work, hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

13 comments:

  1. gorgeous tag, your flower is fantastic

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  2. congratulations! this is such a wonderful tag. Petra.xx

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  3. Congrats. This tag is luscious--love the creamy look.

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  5. Will you just get yourself up here so you can tteach me all of these fun things. Love ya, Sis

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  6. Adorable, you will make Hels so proud!

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  7. Beautiful tag, I simply adore it! Thanks for joining us at Scrappy Frogs! Hugs, Stephanie

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  8. Gorgeous tag, love all the different textures and that flower is fab
    Claire xx

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  9. This tag is so sweet! Thanks for joining us at Crafty Creations Challenge!!

    Greetings, Saskia :)

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  10. WOW!! This is fabulous! Love how your flower turned out, and the collage here is sooooo pretty. TFS!

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  11. So pretty! ...love the vintage feel!

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  12. This is absolutely STUNNING Suzie, I mean capital S.T.U.N.N.I.N.G stunning!!!!

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  13. Ohhhhhh stunning magical wonderful love both pieces they give me chills.

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