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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Cherish Today

Sherry's Rubber Pile Here’s Bad Sherry peeking around a pile of new rubber at our Texas gathering.  Rubbernecker Stamp Co. is releasing 7 new backgrounds today!  Stampy Backgrounds is also the Wacky Wednesday #5 challenge today.  Run on over to the blog for all the deets.

My tag features 3 of the new background stamps – French Script, Flourish & Wildflower.  The flourish was embossed in clear on a large shipping tag.  3 mini misters of pearlized distress mix were then spritzed on the tag.  Combinations include:  Fired Brick Reinker/Blush Perfect Pearls, Mustard Seed/Perfect Gold & Broken China/Pearl.  I started with Mustard Seed because it was my lightest shade and spritzed the entire tag.  Broken China was then sprayed on the top and right hand side of the tag.  Because the mustard was still wet, the mixture combines to make a pretty green in areas.  Then, Fired Brick was added to the bottom left portion of the tag.  To remove the ink and reveal the tag base under the embossed flourish background, place a sheet of copy paper over the tag and iron using a cotton setting with no steam.  You will see the embossing powder melt into the copy paper indicating that the embossing has been removed.WWBackgrounds_SaK 001

The Wildflower background was stamped over the top of the ironed tag using Adirondack Pitch Black ink.  I stamped the butterfly trail by using a black marker on a portion of the flourish background stamp.  The butterfly was die cut with Prism Black using Making Memories Slice, stamped with the French Script Background inked with Adirondack Snow Cap ink.  The die cut was finished with a spritzing of the Mustard Seed/Gold pearlized distress mist, sponged with Snow Cap and brads for the body.  The butterfly is mounted on foam mounting tape.  Did you notice the gorgeous ribbon?  Rubbernecker is now carrying Prism and May Arts Ribbon and 7 Gypsies paper and various other items from  7 Gypsies.   I used the gingham on the top of the tag and also as a mat under my dymo label sentiment.  The dymo letters were swiped with Stazon Timber Brown to antique them a little.  The bottom is finished with black eyelet holes and glass leaf charms.  I also sponged the edges of the tag with Adirondack Pitch Black. 

13 comments:

  1. This tag is gorgeous! I love making bookmarks so this tag really caught my eye on SCS.
    Trish

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  2. Beautiful! Shelly this is awesome, love the butterfly. I liked all the pictures of you girls. You look like you had a lot of fun.

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  3. Wow Shelly this is stunning, a true beauty!! Love the charms!!

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  4. Gorgeous work, Shelly! I love the way you incorporated all the different backgrounds and the colors!

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  5. Oh my word! This is just fantastic, Shelly! Love, love, love everything about it!

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  6. Stunning!!
    This technique is perfect with these stamps!! I love how the color pools at the edges of the image!!!

    Fabulous embellishments, too!!

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  7. Oh my lands, Shelly! I cannot believe how many background images you used on this gorgeous tag. I love the ribbons, too! Gorgeous girlie.

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  8. Oh Shelly!! Your tag is STUNNING!!!

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  9. wonderful use of the gorgeous bg stamps! I am going to have to try this technique now. you did a phenom job!!! :)

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  10. Whoa, girl...this is absolutely gorgeous!!! Just look at all the bg stamps you used and the colors are sooo fabulous!!! Love how you used the flourish and the butterfly is sooo awesome....beautifully done!!!

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  11. Wow!!! I don't even know where to start, I love it all! I LOVE how you created that background!

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  12. Awesome cards! Great picture of all you fun ladies in Texas - from a Texan!!

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