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Monday 7 November 2011

Lest we Forget.......

This tag came about because I was reorganising some stamps and spotted an unmounted poppy, which was a free stamp with Craft Stamper, a few years ago now, when Jane Pinder of The Stamp Bug was the editor.


This is the stamp, and I thought it would lend itself nicely to layering.


 
   I stamped two images onto a handmade paper, and then four more onto Mulberry paper.





I used one of the Handmade paper poppies for the base, then cut up the four mulberry paper ones into sections, then scrunched them up. Opened them all out again, and began to layer them onto the Poppy base with a little silicone glue.


This is the Poppy all layered up, and with a large Black brad in the centre, which also help to ruffle the petals a little.




Added a leaf, from dark green mulberry paper, embossed with clear powder, and the edges cut with a pair of fancy edged scissors.

For the tag, I used a white index card, which I just
sponged in greens, using a torn piece of paper for a mask, and added blues for the sky.The stem is part of another stamp- a Lavinia stamps dandelion head. You can see a bit of a black smudge where I caught the edge of the flower head with the inkpad, but the Poppy head will cover it,lol.
 











 
 Now I matted it onto Red then Black cardstock. I don't have a stamp for Remember, but I do have one that says Remembering, so I just masked off the unwanted letters with lowtack tape, inked the rest, then peeled off the tape before stamping.



The Poppy head is stuck in place with some more silicone glue.

 To finish it off, I added a few dots after Remember with a Promarker, Punched a hole in the top and added some black & red fibres.


10 comments:

Andrea said...

Wow-a lot of work and your effort paid off-beautiful tag!

MaggieC (Silvercrafter) said...

Beautiful, just perfect With Rememberance Day so close.

Cheryl said...

So pretty! I love the dimension your created.

kathi17 said...

That's really pretty. It has so much dimension! Oh, I bought some oil pastels yesterday so I can try some backgrounds. Yours are so beautiful. You've inspired me!

Unknown said...

What a gorgeous tag, that flower is so pretty with the pretty blue and green background. Very nice!


Word Art Wednesday Challenge on my blog! I hope you come and play!

Have a great day!

fairy thoughts said...

beautiful tag and so appropriate for this time of year
thanks for sharing
janet

The Crafty Elf said...

Wow...this is wonderful! Very clever my friend! Have a great week!

Jennipher said...

Very pretty Poppy! Looks like lots of work went into it.

MiamiKel said...

How very pretty! And how funny that your hubby reads your blog - mine would'nt even know where to find mine, lol! Gorgeous work!

Debbie Rock said...

This is just stunning ... absolutely love it! Debbie x

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