a tag recipe at As You See It challenge

Hello crafty friends! I’ve got a double delight for you today – the new challenge at As You See It (which is a recipe) and some more fab new stamps from ClarityCrafts in the form of an A4 sampler set featuring smaller versions of all their recent silhouette stamps. Obviously I couldn’t resist combining the two events for this gift tag – I don’t often make tags but everything just came together for this one. With our recipe for AYSI, the task is to combine all the elements on your project, but I’ve also picked up the tag theme from The Paper Players, the ‘blooms’ aspect of Triple B challenge and the autumn flowers feel of The Card Concept‘s photo

So, I started by cutting a tag with a Clarity die from a piece of Toscana designer card, which had the right tones for the recipe. I then used a rectangle nested die to emboss a frame onto the tag using a shim when running it through y embossing machine so it didn’t cut the card – I put the die on the front of the card, so the frame is debossed into it, but now wish I’d popped it on the back so the frame stood out in relief. Having done that, I stamped the floral silhouette with ‘ground espresso’ Archival ink and then shaded the flowers with Pergaliner pencils.

I brushed ‘peeled paint’ Distress Ink onto a PInky Gray greetings sticker, edged it with a black Sharpie and added that to the tag, together with a few gold sparkly gems around the flowers. A quick bit of twine through the hole in the tag and it was done.

So, in terms of the AYSI recipe, I’ve included all five elements – metallics on my gold dots; embossed texture with the rectangle die; ‘thinking of you sentiment’ on the word sticker; a tag with my die cut; and warm tones on the Toscana card.

And you can get more inspiration with these stamps over on the Clarity YouTube channel with Barbara’s shows at 10am & 2pm today!

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16 thoughts on “a tag recipe at As You See It challenge”

  1. Beautiful, Deborah! The colors you used are so subtle and lovely. This tag would be a gift in itself. Thank you for playing with The Paper Players this week!

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  2. WOW this is gorgeous Deb! The colors are awesome! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Triple B challenge!  Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often. 

    Darlene
    <a href=http://www.darscraftycreations.blogspot.com/>DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS</a>

    Triple B Challenge Co-Owner

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  5. In general I’m not one for tags and don’t make them often. I must say that this one is lovely and the colours are so pretty. Beautiful make my friend.

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  6. Such beautiful colours! Those mini silhouette stamps are amazing – so endlessly useful, I think. Clever of you to deboss the die like that to create the frame too. Great card for our challenge – and thank you also for playing along with The Paper Players. 🙂

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  7. This is awesome, Deborah. It really speak Autumn to me. Thank you for sharing your wonderful and creative talents with us at The Card Concept. We appreciate you, your fellowship, and being able to enjoy your wonderful art. Have a blessed week, and please join us again soon.

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  10. I love the bold, fiery colours of your tag Deborah – a perfect base for your silhouette stamp too (this looks like a great set!) A beautiful tag!

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