More Tags - Mixed Media

More tags! Yep we are pretty into tags here at Make The Day Special and I have some more to show you today!

I used some of my favourite stamps. The ladies you might recognise as the Suzi Blu 'You Are Loved' and 'Love Yourself', the butterfly is from the Unity kit 'Life Becoming' (which is on sale at the moment!). The 'Life' sentiment is from the {Ippity} Kit What Matters Most and the 'Live, Laugh, Love' sentiment is from the {Ippity} Simply Home Kit.

The stamped images have been coloured with Prismacolor pencils for the skin and hair tones and ZIG Art and Graphic twin pens for the dresses and wings etc. As you saw the backgrounds were coloured with acrylic paints so very mixed media tags!

My Dear!

Morning!
Yesterday I thought I'd play with some of my latest additions! Namely 'My Dear' by Iron Orchid Designs brought to you by Unity and available from Emily here
I started with a very clean and simple card:

I stamped the image onto Gloss card with Black Staz-On and then used my PaperMania pens (somewhat forgotten now I've found ProMarkers!) to colour in. The background matt started off as White card I stamped and embossed the corner stamp on one of the edges and then coloured it with my Adirondak Inks and splattered water on it. The little Flower was made with some Green Ric Rac Velvet braid just wound round on itself. I just glued it onto some leaves.

I couldn't be me if I didn't get inky!! So I made a Tag with the same stamp set. Love Tags and I think this set lends itself really well to Tags. :-)

I've used the same colours to colour this image in, they come out much different on plain White cardstock don't they? I clear embossed the main image to make it stand out. I used the corner stamp in the bottom left of the Tag..........stamped it crooked, but didn't want to throw away the Tag...........it's hardly noticeable now, so I'm really glad I carried on with it! I've stamped and clear embossed the script stamp to add a little background. Coloured with my Adirondak Inks. I added a couple of Flowers and the little flower made with the Green Ric Rac braid, which I have also added at the bottom, along with some stick on gems.
I really enjoyed making these.............especially the Tag. It's interesting to see how different the same images can look used differently.
I hope you all have a good Monday and a great week. I'll 'see' you soon.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to have a look here at 'Make The Day Special' Emily has some great stamps.........still lots of bargains! and fantastic service.................what more could we ask for?

She xx

One Precious Life tags

One of my favourite Unity stamp sets in the shop at the moment is One Precious Life and I've been having a play with them and shrink plastic to make a couple of tags.

I stamped the bicycle and the catching dreams stamps on white shrink plastic using black Stazon ink, cut them out and then used my heat gun to shrink them. The tags were ones I'd already cut from scrap cardstock (I have a stack of them ready to use) and I covered these with patterned paper. The various elements were then added to the tags:

Materials used:
Webster's Pages paper
Unity stamp (as above), black Stazon ink, shrink plastic
Prima flower and pearl
Ric-rac, organza ribbon, beaded string, pom-pom trim, ribbon.

Materials used:
My Mind's Eye paper and die-cut
Unity stamp ( as above), black Stazon ink, shrink plastic
CraftWork rhinestones
pom-pom trim, organza ribbon, vintage buttons.


Thanks for visiting and don't forget to check out the shop for more fab stamps!

Jo

Destination ATC

I have a small and sweet ATC for you today, made using stamps from three different collections. Three - all on one little ATC!

Firstly, I stamped my sentiment - from All About The Journey straight onto the base of my ATC in black ink. Then, using the floral stamp from the You Deserve Ippity set, stamped into the corner to create a little bit of background.

I've also used the suitcase stamp from the Melody Ross A Girl & Her Adventures set to add a little texture to one of my additional elements. I've been using this stamp quite a lot just to add background to smaller elements - so versatile.

I've finished the ATC off with some paper scraps, stitching and a chipboard butterfly. Cute, no?

Hope you're having a good weekend folks x

Growing in unity

Hello.

I ave a little easel card to share with you today.

I have used one of Unity's itty bitty stamps.

These are available from Emily at,

Make the day special.

This week i am hosting Growing in unity on my blog.

I would love it if you would stop by.

And if you leave a comment you could win some

unity stamps

and £10 to spend at make the day special.

Hope to see you.

Thanks for looking.

A Cut Above with Lawn Fawn.

Today I'd like to share with you a quick card I made using the 'Just My Type' set of stamps by Lawn Fawn.
Lawn Fawn produce high quality photopolymer clear stamps which feature cute images and witty sentiments, they stamp beautifully.

For my card i took a white card blank, and stamped my sentiment and the scissors using memento ink, i also stamped the pin tacks onto a scrap of card.  I wanted to create the impression of the scissors cutting the background, so decided to use strips of washi tape to add pattern to the card.  I coloured the scissors and pin tacks to coordinate with the pink dots on the washi tape, and then cut the pin tacks out and adhered with glue dots.

A quick card, perfect for those occassions when you just want to let someone know your thinking about them, or a thank you card for those Christmas Gifts.

Have a Great Day
Suzi

It Is Love All The Way!

Getting ready for Valentine's day? How about a tag?

I've used the lovely street lamp from the Unity Adventures in Happiness kit which is on at Half Price at the moment so you might want to check it out! The sentiment is from the Unity Wishes and Kisses kit.

Bring on the Lurve :)

Kimx