Thursday 22 September 2011

Catch a falling star ....

First of all a very big thank you to all of you who left comments on my last post and especially to Hels who gave a big shout out on her blog to come and check me out - I did wonder why I had so many hits on my post and then I found out why!  All your thoughts and best wishes much appreciated blog friends and apologies if I made you sniffle!

Had to raid the Christmas stamp box to find a star stamp for this weeks Sunday Stamper Challenge.  Now I know some of you are already thinking about Christmas but I just refuse too - way, way too early and anyway haven't got any Chrimbo mojo!

So having found said star stamp I decided to make a good old trusty tag, it's nice to be confined by the limited space and therefore you can't spend too much time faffing around on it (well you can obviously but I decided I wouldn't - ha!)
First of all a layer of Weathered Wood distress stain all over the tag followed by Black Soot distress stain.  This was a mistake I thought I'd picked up Weathered Wood again for a second coat!  A quick wipe back with a baby wipe and I quite liked the inky blue darkness with a hint of cream peaking through! Edged in Chipped Sapphire distress ink and a little bit of silver inka along the edge.

Stamped that swirl of stars in clear embossing ink and then used a plumy purple embossing powder over that.

The hanging stars are grungepaper that had Black Soot distress stain all over followed by lots of sprays of a plum glimmer mist and then dazzling diamonds glimmer mist. The star stamp was the freebie in a recent Craft Stamper (this month, last month I can't remember, the pile of magazines by my bed gets bigger and bigger every month!). Stamped in black embossing powder and cut out. 

Two eyelets at the top with a thin bit of black ribbon threaded through and tied into a bow, each star was attached with a tiny staple and button added on top.  The third star was glued to the bottom and spare bit of grunge paper was stamped with catch a falling ...

And yes I didn't spend too much time faffing around - love that word! 


hugs


jo
xx


4 comments:

  1. Love your faffing Jo... the star is gorgeous isn't it... tis my fave freebie one ever :O)) Thanks for joining in with the Sunday STamper... hugs x

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  2. I love this stamp! It stamps really nicely - but I love the colour choices - funny how a baby wipe magically creates a new colour! I'm not sure where id bs without my wipes!

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  3. Love your tag, and the star stamp (latest issue by the way) is a great one, I used it straight away, too!

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  4. why is it everytime i come to your blog i'm absolutety blown away by your colorcombo's? my mojo is getting jealous! once again, same effect with this tag. love it. everything about it. even makes me want to go make some christmas tag. can you imagine???

    ps: glad the box made it safely and happy you like it ;)

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