Grow with Grace

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good weekend. I'm running late with my DT project for our new challenge at We Do Doobadoo where our theme is 'Enhancing dies'. I've created a die cut flower and enhanced it with some beautiful laser cut Dutch Doobadoo Butteflies coloured with PanPastels. This is also my project for our new challenge at PanPastel UK where our theme is 'Add some bling', of course both challenges have some fabby goodies up for grabs so you won't want to miss out!!

I began with a background I'd made with my gelli plate a few weeks ago.  I mixed some Copper PanPastel with Maimeri Gloss Gel Medium and applied it through my favourite Chicken Wire stencil from Dutch Doobadoo. I blasted it with my heat gun to add more texture and create a bubbled effect and then used the remaining copper gloss gel to colour some Dutch Doobadoo Softboard honeycomb. I added some stamping using background stamps and the 'Grow with Grace' sentiment from the Premium Craft Brands 'Roses' stamp set. 

The flower and leaves were made using Sizzix die cuts coloured with PanPastels. I added some bling with some beads in the centre of the flower and then spritzed the beads with a mixture of Maimeri Gloss Gel Medium and water. I dusted Rich Gold PanPastel over the beads and left it to dry.

Next I added some stampbord squares that I coloured by applying versamark and Copper PanPastel and then stamped with background stamps to remove some of the PanPastel. To finish off I've added some string to the top of the tag.

I'm entering this tag in the following challenges:

Crafters Cafe: things with wings

Crafting for all Seasons: Tags

Southern Girls: get wordy

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Try it on Tuesday: colours of Autumn

Thanks for popping by today, 

Claire xx

Maimeri Gloss Gel	Copper Metallic	Rich Gold - Metallic Pan Pastel	Permanent Red Extra Dark	Bright Yellow Green Shade
Chicken Wire Stencil	Dutch Doobadoo Softboard Art Honeycomb	Dutch Doobadoo laser art, butterflies	Roses Stamps