Been playing with my jumbo tag that was on my workdesk yesterday. Coloured it with dusty concord and tumbled glass, spritzed with some reinker/pearl mixes first, (one with dusty concord, one with broken china) then took out my Paperartsy stamps from Hotpick 9.
I love these flowers. I stamped it several times onto the tag using black archival, then a couple onto a scrap piece of card which I cut single flowers from and coloured using victorian velvet, before sticking onto the tag images, purely for a bit of interest - I didn't want to hide too much of the shimmery background!
Used the distressed looking background stamp - the broken lines - in dusty concord, and a couple of sentiments - Life's a Garden comes from the Hotpick set, the other you probably recognise as a Wendy Vecchi.
Now I'll let you into a secret. The first flowers I stamped and stuck on, I coloured in yellow. Thought it would be a good contrast - NO NO NO. Tried to cover the yellow with purple. You guessed it, MUD. So went for mark 2!!
Not sure if it needs a ribbon or something? What do you think?
I had trouble scanning this one!
12 comments:
Look, will you stop buying stamps...every time you post some wonderful work, I think, oooo that's really good, I must buy that stamp. You are a terrible influence, but I love your work, xx
I think ribbon would detract from the flowers, love it as is :P I second what FC says - I'm not even a stamper but I'm getting a list of things to look out for cos of you! Anymore on your list for saturday?
This is gorgeous - loooooove the colors, they are *perfect*. I wouldn't add a thing, it's beautiful as is. :)
Stunning colors! Your flowers are just gorgeous just the way they are! Love this!
OMG! This is awesome! Love the colors, and those flower stamps are DIVINE! Perhaps a ribbon round the bottom? to match the Victorian Velvet flowers? I think it's fine as is, but you did mention it. lol! Gorgeous!
You've captured the feel beautifully.
Just stunning Helen, a wonderful infusion of colours.
B x
I agree Helen those flowers are lovely and so are the colours. Considering you work you do manage to accomplish quite a bit of art, I'm amazed how much you get done. Have a lovely day, Tracy x x
Gorgeous tag Helen, love the colours and the stamps you've used :-)
Anne x
Oh yes Helen Ally Pally, I almost forgot, wish I was going. Can't wait to see what stash you come back with. I will have my nose pressed up against the computer when you post the pics on your blog LOL. Have a fab time, Tracy xx
Beautiful piece of art, the combination of inks and colours is stunning.
Beautiful colours & design H! x
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