Quilts and Cards: Tag Challenge

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Tag Challenge

This month, the Something Completely Different challenges are Tags and the theme for this week is Hearts. This tag was cut using my Cricut, giving a slightly different shape to the normal luggage type tag. I distressed the tag using Weathered Wood, Barn Door and Stormy Sky Distress Inks, then stamped the heart images (a giveaway with a card making magazine) in Barn Door. I stamped the heart with words again and cut it out, then misted that and the tag with Cosmic Mist. Attached the heart then added a heart shaped brad and a heart shaped button tied with raffia. The fibre at the top of the tag is one from my stash given to me by Sue at Wantage.

4 comments:

Carol Plume said...: what a pretty tag - love the unusual shape..Thank You for joining us this week.; July 9, 2010 at 6:53 AM
sam21ski said...: Great distressing Janet, lovely tag xxxx; July 9, 2010 at 7:56 AM
Laura said...: This looks fabulous.A great mix of techniques that has worked really well. Great make. Thanks for joining us at SCD this week. A new challenge next week. Hope you loin us.; July 9, 2010 at 9:06 AM
Shairon said...: Gorgeous tag Janet! Wonderful composition. xx; July 10, 2010 at 8:33 PM

Favourite Tips

If you need a brad of a particular colour and don't have one, check to see if you have some embossing powder of the colour you want . Rub embossing ink on the top of the brad, then dip it into the embossing powder then heat set it. Use tweezers or a clip peg to hold the brad while you heat it.
When you are stitching on cards, make sure you are not sewing over the top of DS tape! The needle gets gummed up and won't lock the threads underneath.
Use zip lock plastic envelopes for smaller pieces of card offcuts that accumulate when making cards. Have one envelope per colour and periodically go through and trim up so they are ready for use on another card.