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Saturday 4 January 2014

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
Spellbinders Nestabilities – 5x7 Card Creator &Resplendent Rectangles
Embellishments
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
ColorBox Chalk – Dark Brown
Mica – Copper
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

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
Maya Arts Canvas Ribbon – Scrolls
The Paper Studio – Canvas Ribbon
Challenges

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4 comments:

  1. This is just stunningly chic and so elegant. I just adore those folded circle embellies and the beautiful colouring.
    Hugs
    Desíre
    {Doing Life – my personal blog}

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  2. Beautiful tag and love the pocket on the back, beautiful colours too, thanks for joining us at Crafty Catz this week, Jac x

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  3. This is so pretty love the flower!

    Thank you for joining our Thank You challenge at Crafty Catz this week
    Nick

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  4. gorgeous tag. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Catz! Kim x

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