The flower a tethered butterfly

My project today is a tag, well, actually a tag pocket with a little card inside, a thank you to a colleague who helped me out recently at work.  The front of the tag features a chippie of a Julie Nutting doll called Holly.

To decorate the chippie I started with Gesso and then sprayed with Smooch Glitz, I smoothed the spray with a paint brush to try and give the impression of a flat fabric like satin.  I then used a stencil and some mica to add the butterfly detail to the skirt.  To finish the doll I got out my Copics and just coloured as I would on paper, which seemed to work.

I made the flower embellies too following a tut on the Flying Unicorn Forum where they’ve got a challenge going to make these flowers and feature them on your project.  They are really simple to make but I think they are quite pretty although a tip or two, a heavy designer paper is not suited to what is essentially origami and a ¾” petal is very fiddly to fold.  The front of the tag follows the current sketch at the Outlaw’s sketch challenge, I actually remembered to get a picture of my creation so I can enter this week’s challenge, not like last week when I popped the card in the post before getting a picture!  I did add the bow element to the top and skipped the oval element, I thought Holly was a good replacement being quite tall and thin although not very rounded.

I added a pocket to the back of the tag, inspired by a post on the Flying Unicorn blog by Alda.  I sprayed it with the same Smooch as Holly’s dress and added some more butterflies to match.  I also added some designer paper to the back of the tag to match the front.  I didn’t have a smaller version of the ribbon on the front so I stamped the pattern on some plain canvas ribbon using a bindi stamp.

The little tag that goes inside was cut from a couple of Nesties.  I’ve layered the front of it to add interest and picked up the pearls from the centre of the flower in the corner embellie.  I echoed this on the back of the tag where I also used a resin flower in a matching colour as another of the folded flowers would have been too much.  I’ve left an enormous tail to the tag out of baker’s twine so I can tie this package style around the gift.

Crafty Catz has a thank you theme on their current challenge so I am also entering my tag in there as it is definitely about thanking someone.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E5o, E51, E53

Hair E29, E31, E35, E49

Dies, Stencils & SVGs etc

Magenta Mask – Nature Elements

Spellbinders Nestabilities – 5x7 Card Creator &Resplendent Rectangles

Embellishments

Folded Flowers using Marion Smith Mad Tea Party – Spot of Tea

Glitz Wild & Free – Alphabet & Words Stickers

Kaisercraft Pearls – Blush

Leaky Shed Chipboard – Holly by Julie Nutting

Webster’s Pages Whimsies – Lotus Flower Bloom

Inks & Paints etc

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso

ColorBox Chalk – Dark Brown

Mica – Copper

Shimmerz Paints Dimensionz – Blue Lagoon

Smooch Spritz – Emerald Sprinkle & Pralines and Cream

Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Tea Dye

Tsukineko Encore! Ultimate Metallic – Gold

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock – White

Christina Re Designer Card – Shimmering Pearl

Marion Smith Nirvana – Cloud 9

Piatek Trzynastego Magic Moments – Evening in Venice

Prima Tag – Julie Nutting

Studio 75 – Rosalie in the Garden 04

Ribbons & Trim etc

Baker’s Twine – Key Lime & Princess Pink

Green Tara – Lace

Lace from LSS

Maya Arts Canvas Ribbon – Scrolls

The Paper Studio – Canvas Ribbon

Challenges

Crafty Catz #212 – Thank you

Flying Unicorn Forum – Fold It

Outlawz Wednesday Sketch Challenge

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