Wednesday 4 September 2013

Dragons Dream - Tag It On -

This fortnight, we are welcoming back Gabrielle to the fold at DragonsDream - after her accident when she broke her elbow it is lovely to have her back crafting. Gabrielle has chosen the recipe for this challenge, on your tag, she would like us to use tissue - be it tissue wrap, tape or plain old tissue - the colour blue - and the theme of music. Oh, and you must use one real stamp too.

This is my tag
 I sprayed a tag (size 8) with water, then sprayed Dylusions inks - After Midnight and London Blue, allowing the colours to puddle and mingle. Once dry, I tore some pieces of tissue wrap - the only one I have is the music one, which is handy, I think!!

When I use Dylusions on tags I usually press a second one on top, to help spread out the inks and to use up some of the spare colour.

On this second tag, I stamped one of the ballerinas from Sioux Jenney's stamps for the Artistic Stamper and cut her out, and one of the phrases from the same stamp set, on some plain tissue paper.

I mounted the dancer on another piece of tissue and roughly tore round it before sticking them to my tag...

I scuffed the edges with my paper distresser and used Walnut Stain distress ink round the edges.

A bright blue ribbon finishes the tag off.




Couple of close ups...
















Hope you have fun with the team again this fortnight - do come and check out what the other talented ladies have been doing!

15 comments:

Lori said...

Beautiful!

sam21ski said...

Oooh great take on a hard recipe!!

Shall have to get my thinking cap on for this one!!!

Sam xxx

Silvia(Barnie) said...

Such a gorgeous tag, great image.

Anonymous said...

This is gorgeous! Great use of the tissue, & I love the colours! x

Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...

Lovely tag Helen, lovely colours and image and I love the music backdrop. Tracy x

Julie Lee said...

This is such a beautiful tag, Helen! I love that ballerina! I would really like to make the time to enter this one - haven't had the time lately. Julie Ann xx

craftimamma said...

Lovely tag Helen with beautiful colours. I remember this set of stamps which I was lucky enough to win on Jennie's blog. Must dig them out again.

Hugs
Lesley Xx

Brenda Brown said...

Love how you have designed this tat using the components of the theme, beautifully put together.
hugs {brenda} x0x

Artyjen said...

oooh! That is lovely ;) my ballerina looks fabby layered like that ;)
xoxo Sioux

ElizabethR said...

Gorgeous tag I love the dancer xxx

May said...

Hi Helen, Love your tag, The background is amazing... Gorgeous image...Love it... Sadly this year I'm not going up to Ally Pally Sept will be on Hols...Have a Fabulous time... Hugs May x x x

Words and Pictures said...

Gorgeous... love the blues, and the ballerina is a brilliant addition to the recipe. I'm here to play catch up - I'm guessing I've missed loads!!
Alison x

Carmen said...

Those blues and purples are gorgeous and that dancer is perfect!

Lin said...

Great tag Helen!!

Anonymous said...

Great tag, fab recipe too.