Saturday 7 August 2010

Purely Purple Paperartsy

I wanted to make something different today but the inspiration wasn't there - so - surprise, surprise, I did a tag!

Coloured it with dusty concord ink and a touch of chipped sapphire round the edges, spritzed it with a dusty concord/perfect pearl reinker mix and stamped this gorgeous Paperartsy stamp twice in black archival ink and the fine text (also Paperartsy) in black DI.  In real life, the background is too dark, if I had thought of it in time I'd have sprayed it with some of the marshmallow glimmer mist, but there you go, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Added a petaloo flower which I painted with watered down inka gold violet paint ("goop" as Lin and Leandra call it) and added the idea-ology to the centre.

11 comments:

Unknown said...

ooooooo That's lush that is :0)

Netty said...

Gosh is gorgeous Helen, love it. Annette x

Hels Sheridan said...

Gorgeous tag Helen... loving the purples

Lori said...

Love the purple and chipped sapphire, gorgeous colors! Great tag, Helen! Nothing like a tag to jump start your mojo!

ikki said...

Hi Helen, I love this tag! Great colour combo and the stamps look brill. ikki

Lesley Edmonds said...

Hi Helen, a lovely tag - just love the colour!
Lx

Cynthia Schelzig said...

Love purple..this is gorgeous!!
Cynthia Schelzig..a.k.a Cynnie

Liverpool Lou (Anne) said...

Gorgeous tag Helen, gorgeous colour, fab stamps :-) I often find it easy to make a tag when inspiration is lacking
Anne xx

SYLVIA-ANNE said...

Hi Helen - thanks for visiting my (tidy) workspace!! Sorry it's taken me a while to pop over to yours, but I'm so glad I made it at last! Your projects are amazing, and I am now a follower so I can keep up with all your beautiful work.
Hugs, Sylvia xxxx
PS: Love the cake basket inky holder thingy - great idea!! xx

Gez Butterworth said...

Gorgeous tag Helen. My favourite colour. Love the stamps you have chosen. Looks like you had great fun making this.. hugs, Gez.xx

Anonymous said...

Now, I like that a lot!