Purple, Rust and Gold

My morning started out with a quick check in with some of my crafty friends and I was struck by the beautiful background and art that Astrid created using a technique from Blanche Siegmann.  It had me inspired to try out some ideas.

"A Vintage Journey" is celebrating their birthday and have a recipe provided for their March challenge which encompasses Purple, Chipboard, and Rust.  A very strong influence for my tag. :)

 I started with playing around with the background technique.  A few of my different attempts:

I used the gold distress stain with the dusty concord ink over the surface to create my backgrounds. I tried a variety of stamps in the background.  

 You might recognize the butterflies as they were the leftovers from my tag made for Tim's March tag. They already had a beautiful mix of white, black and gold on the surface.  I just added the Stampendous Aged Metallic to the edges of the tag and the butterflies.

The stencil is one of  the new Tim Holtz Idea-ology Layering Stencils.  I added gold embossing powder to the metallic numbers and added them to the butterflies.  The sentiment is from Verses Rubber Stamps.


Thanks for stopping by!


Suzz

Bird Cage Ornament & Happy News!

Today I am guest designing over at A Vintage Journey. I was thrilled to be asked to join in on this weeks challenge "Birds of a Feather".  The design team is extremely talented and there is always something inspiring and beautiful up on the blog.  A challenge about birds what a perfect fit for me!

My 25 Birds of Christmas tags was inspired the challenge.  Day 8 which is posting a little early here is a variation of the birdcage.

Hop over to the blog to see the details and to play along!

Suzz