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Friday 25 March 2011

Inspired by an Elvis song at Crafty Ann's

Hello there,  its time for a new challenge over at Crafty Ann's challenge blog and this time around Ann wants to see creations inspired by an Elvis song! Now I don't know about you but my brain goes in to a total melt down everytime I try to use a song as the inspiration for a project. Anyway after spending hours looking at a huge list of Elvis songs (have a look here if you want some ideas) and trying to come up with an idea I decided to pick one of Ann's stamps and then find a song to go with it! I'd wanted to use this gorgoeus winged heart (available from Crafty Ann's Digi Shop) for ages so I went back to the list and thought it would be perfect for a 'Love me Tender' inspired creation

 

I also wanted to show how versatile digital stamps can be, I tend to get stuck in a rut of just colouring digi stamps and using my rubber stamps for other techniques but I decided to have a play and see what i could come up with.

I've used a large manilla tag for my base and covered with with one of Crafty Ann's mottled stone backing papers (available here) and painted it with diluted cream acrylic paint. I then stamped and embossed the large Elusive Images border stamp in gold EP. I cut out the heart from Crafty Ann's winged heart and applied a layer of versamark and then triple embossed it with gold UTEE and then while it was hot pressed the border stamp into the utee. I layered the heart up over another winged heart and liberally glittered the wings with Judikins prisma glitter. the finished winged heart is layered up over some fluffy white feathers.

I've distressed the edges of the tag and inked with tea dye distress ink. To finish the tag off I've added some irridescent beaded trim, lace, vintage seam binding ribbon and a concertina flower with a button and a little bow.

I'm entering my tag in the following challenges:
A gem of a challenge: anything but a square
Crafty Emma's Store: your favourite song or inspired by a song
Creative cowgirls: Monochromatic
Little Red Wagon: butterflies
Paperplay: Distressing
Some odd girl: pleat something
Squigglefly: buttons
Sugar Creek Hollow: Anything goes
The Crafty Pad: Use a digi
The Shabby Tearoom: Bingo challenge (my line is punch/embossing/ribbon)
Totally gorjuss: Button it

Thanks for calling by, I hope you're going to get inspired by an Elvis song with us this week. Pop round and check out my teamies blogs for some more ideas :-)
Claire xx

37 comments:

  1. Hi Claire!
    What a gorgeous, shabby, sweet tag you have made! Love that distress action going on! The heart,lace and ribbon look amazing and so do your digi stamps! Thanks for joining us at The Cupcake Craft Challenge this week! Good Luck! hugs/sari

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  2. LOve the interpretation of the song .. gorgeous elements in your creation -especially the winged heart
    thanks for joining us at MAWTT this week
    Lisa x

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  3. This is so utterly gorgeous, Claire.
    The fluffy feather with the embossed heart is lush
    x

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  4. A wonderful card Claire, I love the fanned flower in particular xx Jan

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  5. Beautiful tag! Great vintage look! Love all the details on the tag!
    Thanks for playing along at creative cowgirls challenge!
    Marianne

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  6. This is breathtaking Claire and you've achieved your goal of showing the versatility of digi stamps and some here! I adore what you've done, this tag is so romantic and beautiful.
    Ann x

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  7. Fabulous Claire, just love the colours and feminine, lacy look.
    Happy friday and have a great weekend.
    luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

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  8. I love your tag Claire, so pretty and the feathers are a great touch. Thanks for taking part in this weeks CES Challenge!
    Clairexx

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  9. Your tag definitely has the WOW factor Claire, love all your different stamping/embossing and your concertina flower is awesome.
    Hugs,
    Nicola -x-

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  10. Me again Claire - just to say thanks for sharing this with us at MAWTT this week for our precious metals challenge.
    luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

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  11. Gorgeous tag Claire. I've never tried to emboss digis, you did a great job. And I love the challenge, so many songs to choose from!

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  12. Hi Claire!
    Lovely job with this project, and your pleating is beautiful! Thanks for playing along with Some Odd Girl!

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  13. Thank you for joining us at Cupcake Craft this week with such a beautiful creation ! Your tag is gorgeous ! Love the embellies ! Good luck !

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  14. blogger took my original post and sent into cyber space somewhere! I was going on and on about remembering Elvis and how wonderfully perfect your creation is for this particular song!! Not to belabor my memories let me just say, "thank you" for joining in our fun this week! We love having you play along!
    donna
    SCH-DT

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  15. Super tag! Love your background and all the lace! Thanks for playing in Squigglefly's challenge this week!

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  16. This is just adorable in all its pink :o)

    Thanks for joining us at secret crafter this week

    Bea

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  17. This is gorgeous Claire! The feathers and the lace look amazing. Thanks so much for sharing with us at MAWTT this week. Good luck. Pami x

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  18. What a beautiful tag, Claire! Wonderful choice of colours and the embellishments are gorgeous! Thanks for joining us at Cupcake and good luck! Delphine xx

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  19. Lovely!

    Thanks for joining us on our "Anything but a card" challenge on SECRET CRAFTER SATURDAY CHALLENGE :)

    Hugs Jane x

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  20. This is the perfect tag for the "Love Me Tender" theme! Gorgeous work! Such pretty feminine details, and I especially love the flower!

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  21. so beautiful and girly!

    thanks for playing with us at some odd girl!

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  22. This is GORGEOUS!! (psst...I have a birthday in a few months LOL) Hee hee I truly love every element of this beautiful tag! Thanks for joining us at MAWTT! x

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  23. A beautiful shabby chic tag, and great use of a digi! Thank you for joining THE CRAFTY PAD challenge. Hugs, Ali x

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  24. Love your card! The heart is really cool. Thanks for joining us on Some Odd Girl!

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  25. Hi Claire, This is too awesome for words! I love how you shared, in detail, all the steps in making this masterpiece. It is so beautiful!Thanks for joining us this week at The Crafty Pad for our "use a digi" challenge. We hope to see you again on Sunday for our next challenge:)

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  26. gorgeous!! Loving the colours and the mix of textures! Hugs Juls

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  27. Beautiful tag. I love the shabby chic colors and layers. Thanks for joining us in The Shabby Tea Room this week.

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  28. This is a truly beautiful tag Claire!! Thank you for playing along with Paper Play Challenges & hope you can join us again next week, hugs, Janey x

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  29. Beautiful tag...thanks for joining us this week at A Gem Of A Challenge.

    Take care
    San x

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  30. How pretty! I love the feathers! So glad you could play along with us in the Tea Room this week!

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  31. Great piece of work Claire
    Beryl x

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  32. Ooow! Gorgeous lacey pinkness :D Thank you for sharing with us at Creative Cowgirls XXX

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  33. Just fab hun, love the colour its pinked up to the max....love it!!

    Thanks for sharing with us at MAWTT this week, good luck!
    Hugs shell xx

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  34. Beautiful - love your creation! Thanks for joining us for this week's Cupcake Challenge!

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  35. This is so pretty and elegant looking. You have created a FAB project here. Thanks for joining us at MAWTT this week and good luck with the challenge
    Hugs Laurie x

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  36. Oh wow!! This is sooo stunning!! What a really gorgeous creation and beautiful details!! Thanks so much for joining us at Squuigglefly!! Please be sure to come back to play again as a new challenge is posted!! HUGS

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  37. So gorgeous! thanks for joining us at A Gem Of A Challenge this time xx Jenny xx

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