Thursday 2 February 2012

dragonfly tag

the challenge this week for CD Sunday is 'tag it', and I combined this with the Make my Monday challenge 'butterflies and dragonflies'. I had plenty of tags cut out to use for the Chocolate Baroque alphatag swap, so used one of these as the base of the card. The stamp is an ancient one from Aspects of Design, that hasn't been used for ages - actually, that will qualify it for Judith's Forgotten Friday too! - stamped in smoky grey versafine and clear embossed. It was then swooshed through distress inks splodged on my craft mat and spritzed with water - mostly tumbled glass and peeled paint, but there was some broken china in there too. I coloured the dragonflies with H2Os - practically all the blues and greens I had just splodged on fairly randomly. I distressed the edges of the tag, then sponged broken china round the edges to give it a bit of definition, added some fine ribbony bits that must have come from a mystery parcel at some point, as I  am not noted for buying ribbon., and stuck it at an angle onto a card covered with paper from the Artylicious Butterfly bliss cd - something else that hasn't been used for months. I did go round the edges of the paper first with some more broken china ink .
The butterfly from Chocolate Baroque was stamped onto white card with black versafine, clear embossed, then coloured with watercolour pencils before a quick spray with spray & sparkle in silver and cutting it out - I did chop off the antenna as it was just too fiddly to cut out!

19 comments:

  1. This is beautiful, you've used some of my favourite things with this one.
    thanks for joining us at CD Sunday this week.
    Jenny x
    CD Sunday DT

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  2. This is a lovely tag Veronica. I love butterflies and dragonflies. The colours are gorgeous, and the smooshed background is fab. I like to make those a lot too. Thanks for joining in FF, Judith xx

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  3. This is just beautiful. I love the colours and your image. Thank you for joining in the fun at CD Sunday this week
    Beryl x GDT

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  4. The CB Butterfly is a real beauty with those colours & I love those fibres you used. The Broken China is such a useful one to use for picking out those blues.
    Paula (PEP)

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  5. What a lovely tag--that silver is amazing! LOVE that brilliant butterfly! Thanks for joining us this week at MMM! :)

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  6. Great colours and I love the way you have combined lots of inky techniques with a CD as well. I love to combine different techniques and you have done this beautifully.
    Jocelyn x
    CD Sunday DT

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  7. Love this tag and you've certainly combined several challenges with this one. I reckon I also have that stamp somewhere - had a lucky find of some Aspects stamps in a charity shop some months ago but not sure I've used them yet

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  8. Beautiful, I love the colours on the butterfly, so vibrant, thanks for sharing at CD Sunday x

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  9. I love this Veronica. Beautiful colours and can never have enough dragonflies or butterflies, real or stamped!

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  10. Thanks for joining us this week at MMM - love your creation - Jacqueline xx

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  11. This is gorgeous, my favourite stamps. Butterflies and dragonflies are always a winner with me.I love how you have combined inks in your design. Thanks for joining us at CD Sunday this week.
    Hugs
    Christine xx
    CD Sunday DT

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  12. Great inking...looks so natural if you get what I mean. Thank you for entering the Make Monday challenge.

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  13. Thanks for sharing with us at MMM. Your tag is beautiful, I especially admire the butterfly, gorgeous colouring. Caz

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  14. Beautiful inking, and you have the coloured butterfly is a real stand-out. Thanks so much for joining us again at MMM.
    Hugs
    Valxx

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  15. thank you for joining us at MMM with this beautiful tag.
    suzi b :)

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  16. Ohhhh now theres an idea for my D tag ha ha x

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  17. Really lovely creation. Thanks for joining in with this week's MMM challenge and wishing you good luck.
    Fliss x

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  18. Hi Veronica
    I am rushing around this morning catching up with everyone who posted whilst I was away at Bluewater. I love your tag and all the work you put in to it. If you find the butterfly antennae too fiddly you can replace them with the artificial flower stamens that you can buy at a good haberdashers. That's what I do for my butterflies and I make quite a few.
    Thank you for joining us at CD Sunday.
    Carol xx
    CD Sunday DT

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