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Saturday 21 August 2010

Dragons Dream Tag it on Wendy Vecci Style

Frankie's challenge over at Dragon's Dream Tag it On is 'Die cuts' and I've combined it with this weeks challenge at Simon Says Stamp and Show where the challenge is 'Wendy Vecci' style. I love Wendy's style but don't have ny of her stamps (yet!!) so I had to rummage through my stamps for something suitable and came up with a large flower from Elusive Images to use as the focal point.


I've cut the shapes on my cricut and then coloured them with distress inks in vintage photo, spiced marmalade and antique linen and stamped them with a Creative Expressions crackle stamp. The leaves are coloured with shabby shutters. I stamped the flower twice on some white card coloured with the same distress inks and embossed with black detail EP. I also stamped and embossed the flower on some glossy card coloured with ginger and lettuce alcohol inks. I decoupaged the layers of the  flower, added some lime stickles and attached it to the centre of the tag. The oval tags are coloured the same way and I stamped a quote from Sweet Pea stamps a bee from Artemio and added a punched butterfly.

I love working with beads and decided to add a beaded hanger and attach the oval with beads, thats when it all started to go horribly wrong lol. I made the beady bits (note the technical terminology lol) with wire, myuki drops and twisted bugle beadsThe two metal embellishments are earring blanks from the local scrap store which started off with little loops which I was going to use to attach the oval - BUT I managed to snap one! At that stage I thought it was destined for the bin but I managed to remove the earrings and stick them on further up, waste not want not as my grannie used to say ;-)

I thought it would be plain sailing to attach the beaded bits with eyelets and jump rings, WRONG! I didn't have any jump rings big enough so I had to bodge some from headpins (so don't look too closely lol). Added a little metal peg as a finishing touch (not sure if Wendy is into metal pegs lol).

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:
Alphabet Challenge: Q is for quote 
Aud Sentiments: Anything goes
Just Scraps: Anything goes

Thanks for looking, sorry about the photo, I can't blame my dodgy camera any more as my photo's are just as bad with new my camera lol
Claire xx


21 comments:

  1. Lovely wall hanging very much in the style of Wendy and very much you. xx Zoe

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  2. Wow Claire what a wonderful creation I have so enjoyed reading your techniques and have loved looking at the finished item, brilliant work thank you for joining our challenge at OSCC this week.
    hugs
    Lorraine x

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  3. This is gorgeous Claire! :)

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  4. What a beautiful project! I love the inking!
    Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments and don't forget to join in our monthly drawing going on right now.

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  5. This is gorgeous Claire, love the beads and your photo aint that bad!!

    Sarah x

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  6. Claire, it's wonderful and so is your description of how you got from A to B to C, etc. I love it. It fits all those wonderful challenges, including the 2 I am in: Tag it On and One Stop. Beautiful, my friend. Keep up the good work.

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  7. This piece is gorgeous Claire! I never seem to have time for home decor projects latley. XXX

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  8. Beautiful Claire and so original. Love it, x

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  9. Hi Claire this is a fabulous project.Thanks for sharing this with us at CYDA.xxx

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  10. Hi Claire, gorgeous piece of Home Decor. Thanks for joining us at CYDA this time,
    Hugs, Donna x

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  11. Such a pretty wall hanging, lovely colour combo, distressing & embellishments I love it, thanks for joining in at OSCC, Janet

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  12. Gorgeous! Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments

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  13. Hiya CLaire thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp and Show with your fabulous project....wowzersss love the colors and that ...thanks sweetie for sharing...Hope you will join us again for next weeks challenge. Hugs Terry xxxx

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  14. Lovely wall hanging piece! Fabulouse colors and design!

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  15. What a gorgeous wall hanging you have made. The flower is just exquisite and I love the whole color palette. Beautiful work with the beaded hanger too! The Design Team is pleased that you joined the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week. Thank you!

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  16. Fab wall hanging Claire! Thanks for taking part in the Alphabet and CYDA challenges xx

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  17. STUNNING...just plain STUNNING!!

    thanks bunches for playing along with the Design Teamies and Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge!!!

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  18. This is sooo pretty!!! Great project!! Thanks for sharing with us at Alphabet Challenge!!

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  19. Wow - this is stunning - such intricacy!

    Thanks for joining in the fun at Aud Sentiments

    Rx

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  20. This looks amazing, I love the vintage colours and style. Thanks for joining in with CYDA Challenge.
    Hugs Shelley xx

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