Challenge - Accepted!

Hi Everyone - Karen here with you again today. Have you seen the awesome new inspiration challenge that we have here at VLVS this month??

 



 

I love the colours.. So I decided that I would use this as my inspiration ,

 

This is what I came up with..
 

 

 I used a base of the VLVS Grunge writing 1787 , then layered down  lots of different elements, including book pages and lace added in some Tim Holtz embellishments and some hexagon chipboard from UmWow Studio .  I've coloured the chipboard with brown ink, even though I love the natural colour of the UWS chipboard, I wanted it a little darker this time, and  lastly some stitching and flowers.

 

and a couple of close ups..

 

I love the detail in this crown.

 I stamped  both the crown and the bee on manila coloured cardstock, the inked the edges with walnut stain distress ink.

 

I've  used Miracle tape to stick my vintage lace down..  Is there anything this tape wont stick??

 

I used three different VLVS images for this one..

 

Crown

 

 

 For the background  I used

Grunge Writing 1787

 

And I fussy cut the bee from

 

Italian Sonnet Background

 

 

Thank you for stoping by,

I hope you have a fantastic day, and get a little stamping in

 

Happy Stamping..

Karen.

Be True.

Hi Everyone.. Karen here with you again. Thank you so much for all your kind words and welcome on my first post. I have another tag to share with you again today.. I do most of my creating on tags, I think  like the challenge of working in such a small space.

 

I had an idea floating around in my head.. and this was the end result.

 

 

 

I've used three stamps this time,

 

Winged Pig - small

 

Italian Sonnet Background

 

Be True - Off new plate 949

 

 

I've stamped the Italian sonnet background all over the tag, then used distress ink around the edges as well as a bit of machine stitching. ( another thing you'll see I love to do!) The different elements in this one stamp make it a perfect background stamp.

 

 

Stamped and coloured the little winged pig, added some Distress Stickles to his wings and a little crown. - he just makes me smile!

 

 

To finish off I've added in a bit more of my idea-ology embellishment stash,  some flowers, a few bits  from my sewing box and used my labeller to add in some strips of random numbers. I've also used a bit of Miracle Tape on the back of my label maker strips, to help hold them down.

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting the blog today. Hope to see you all again very soon..

 

Happy Stamping - Karen