UK stampers forum decorated tag swap

Grabbed some time on Sunday to make a tag for this months swap over at UK stampers forum.

I started with some scrap cardstock and covered most of it with some dyed tissue paper and then some bits of angel hair. I then grabbed a printed tissue scrap and added that too.

This created an interesting background but I wanted to also add some texture so used the Tim Holtz dies that cut out from the panel at both the top and the bottom. This gave me some interesting pattern and I then glued this panel down onto a grey card and cut it to be slightly larger than the original tag.

I edged it with black archival and then grabbed the cute little butterfly stamps and stamped that a few times in black and used white embossing powder – as it heated some of the black came through to create a fun mottled effect.

I added the die cut leaf and the die cut and foiled butterfly that were on the desk and then stamped and coloured and fussy cut the green leaves to give the butterfly a grounding.

I then added the stamped and die cut sentiment to finish off.

I then mounted the panel onto the lilac tag again cut a little larger than the grey later. I punched the hole and then threaded through some fun ribbon and thread trims including a beaded one. I also added the trim bow which I think balanced it nicely.

Happy crafting!

Catherine