Good morning, how's your week going? My week off is going a bit too quickly for my liking but I've got loads done in the garden so I'm having a play day today! This mornings project is a tag made using the technique featured in this months Craft Stamper Take it Make it Challenge which is Monoprinting with an acrylic block.
I had a lovely messy play with my acrylic paints and a large acrylic block and ended up with a heap of backgrounds, I chose this one to work with and added some stamping with black archival ink using stamps from Stampendous and also stencilled in some dots using a template and picked raspberry distress ink. I wasn't sure it would work too well as the paint was really thick but so far so good. I used some scraps of the background to paper piece the Prima Doll stamp, using one of the background stamps for her tights and finished off colouring her in with Graph'It Markers.
Her wings and the sentiment are stamps from Paper Artsy, I brushed her wings with a little pink mica powder, you've got to have a bit of sparkle on your wings lol.
I popped the image and sentiment on the tag with cosmic shimmer glue and then added some shading with a Derwent Pastel pencil, ooooh I love this effect and will definitely be using it again.
I'm also entering this tag in the following challenges:
Crafting for all seasons: no designer paper
Paper Pretties: make your own background
Have a good day and thanks for popping by today
Claire xx
Wow a real splash of colour this morning, just right for the first day of spring. I love the vivid pink and green that you've used.
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Beautiful tag. Why do holiday weeks' go by so much more quickly than working ones???
ReplyDeleteHi! I love your tag! Very pretty! Ingrid x
ReplyDeleteo m gosh Claire - this is amazing - I think we are definitely looking at the winner here - love it to bits xx
ReplyDeleteGorgeous tag - fabulous colours and love the Prima doll! TFS
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colours, its a fantastic tag.
ReplyDeleteYvonne
This is so rich with color and yet playful! Love it!! Thanks for joining in at the Take It, Make It Challenge.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! What a great effect - the shadowing really makes the girl 'pop'
ReplyDeleteWonderful background, great colour palette. TFS Hugs xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful tag so colorful. I love the background and the cute girl. A fantastic technique.
ReplyDeleteLove those colours Claire and what a fabulous background with that technique. Love those Prima stamps but can't decide if I can justify getting any.
ReplyDeleteBeryl xx
Gorgeous tag Claire the colours are fab! Thanks for sharing with us at the Take It make It challenge, hugs Elizabeth xxx
ReplyDeleteThis is fab Claire .... I love the colours and the detail on the background is amazing. Thanks for joining in with the Take It Make It Challenge ..... good luck!
ReplyDeleteLinda xx
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Gorgeous tag, love it. Two of my fave colours too, especially together! Good luck this month in the Craft Stamper Take it, Make it challenge.
ReplyDeleteNikki K. x
Love these juicy bright colours! Thanks so much for joining us at Take It Make It challenge!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the colours, so bright and vibrant! Thank you for playing along with the Craft Stamper blog challenge this month!
ReplyDeleteReally stunning this is gorjuss x
ReplyDeleteThanx for joining in the Craft Stampers Make it Take it challenge!
Ger
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Hello sweetness...your tag is fabulous, great background!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing with us over at Craft Stampers take it make it challenge
Tracy xox
Well done on being in the top 3 over at Craft Stamper for this gorgeous creation Claire! Anne x
ReplyDeleteClaire that such a wonderful tag, I love the colors, the images and all the details. Congrats for being in the top three :)
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