UK stampers forum decorated tag swap

I made a tag for this months swap over at UK stampers forum which started with me just glueing some scraps of cardstock that I had on the desk after a different project…

… when I had added the first few strips I then went through the warm coloured cardstock bits in the scraps pouch and started cutting and adding those as strips too.

This created a fun and bright background.

I added some stamping to the background … the little butterflies from a Concord & 9th set and then the little Hello sentiment. I also added a random text stamp too.

I then inked the edge with black to frame the tag.

Next I chose a digital stamp image from the pouch of those already colored and ready to go and this Octopode one with the reds looked great against that background.

Then I took some yellow cardstock and added the stencilling for the butterflies and die cut them out and the little ones too which I added some subtle inking to as well.

I added the main focal image and the bigger butterflies with adhesive foam for dimension and then the other butterflies I just stuck down with glue.

I had a little hunt in the ribbon stash and found the orange ribbon and a bit of the striped twine for finishing off!

A fun tag for this months swap!

Happy crafting!

Catherine