Friday Feature - Peace Tag

Hi friends.  It's Melody with a Friday Feature for you.  I thought I was going to create a quick tag... well, I did create a tag, but it sure wasn't quick.  I think to reproduce it would be quick, but I tend to be very slow when I create.  I rarely have a plan; I just decide what I'm going to do as I create.  Even when I start out with an idea in my head, the finished project usually has no resemblance to that idea. 

I started out thinking I wanted to use a rosette made from some very old gold wrapping paper that I have.  So I made that and knew I was going to like that on my project.  I was going to die cut a shape to use as a tag, but tried a couple and didn't like either one, so I pulled out a pre-cut tag to work with. 

I used the wrinkle-free distress technique to add color to the tag.  I used iced spruce, evergreen bough and scattered straw distress inks, smooshed them on my craft sheet, spritzed with water and then pressed the tag into the ink.  I dried it with my heat gun, and then repeated putting it into the ink and heating it a couple more times. 

Then I randomly stamped some snowflakes from a Recollections Christmas stamp set with pine needles distress ink.  I added vintage photo with a foam ink applicator. 

I stamped the sentiment with jet black archival ink on ivory card stock, cut a 'V' into the ends to create a banner, added vintage photo ink and backed it with some hunter green.  I put a couple of pleats in the banner and attached it to the tag with dimensional foam tape. 

I cut three 1/4" strips of red card stock and glued them to the tag.  I attached the gold rosette over the strips and then made a flower from the smallest blossom on the tattered poinsettia die and a small flower punch.  Both of these were also edged with vintage photo ink.  In the center of the flower, I made a bunch of dots with a black copic marker and covered it with glossy accents. 

I cut some green and white yarn and attached that through the hole in the top of the tag. 

It was hard to get a good photo, because the rosette is so shiny and refected the camera flash. 

Many of the products used can be found at Outlaw Women's Scrapbook Emporium. 

I hope you enjoyed my tag today.  Thanks for stopping by. 

Friday Feature - one last sunflower

Hello, friends.  It's Melody with another Friday Feature here on the Outlaw Women's blog.  I'm not sure where last week went, but I completely missed getting a post up.  It seems if I blink, another month is gone.  Is it really December tomorrow?

Today I made a card using one new die and a couple of older ones.  I just love using the wonderful dies that are available.  It saves so much time not having to cut things out by hand.  I recently purchased the tattered poinsettia die by Tim Holtz/Sizzix, so I wanted to put it to work, but not as a poinsettia.  Don't be surprised... I've always been somewhat of a rebel, with a need to be different.  I wanted a sunflower.  Although we don't have any snow on the ground yet, we have had some flurries, but I'm just not quite ready to leave autumn behind and face winter's cold and snow. 

My base card is kraft and everything else is die cut from a manila file folder.  I used a lot of ink to change the color, though. 

I die cut a vintage cabinet card and then embossed it with the bricked embossing folder.  I randomly added color with a foam ink applicator using tea dye, scattered straw, brushed corduroy, aged mahogany, and weathered wood distress inks, and then added vintage photo around the edges. 

For the sunflower, using the tattered poinsettia die, I cut two each of the small and medium flowers, the flower center and a few extra petals from the medium flower to use as leaves.  To color them, I pulled out mustard seed, peeled paint and vintage photo distress stains.  I also swiped the peeled paint over another piece of card stock, and then cut a stem from that.  I added some rusty hinge and vintage photo distress ink to the flower petals and vintage photo to the edges of the leaves.  To give the flower more dimension, I curled the petals a bit with my fingers, and also attached some dimensional foam tape underneath.  I used a black marker to add some veins on the leaves. 

For the sentiment, I die cut one of the styled labels, stamped the sentiment from Impression Obsession with jet black archival ink and then trimmed off the ends of the lable.  I wanted it to match the background piece, so I used a small square punch to remove a bit in each corner. 

A few extra details were added with black ink and 1/4" square punch outs.

I hope you enjoyed my card today.  Many of the products used can be purchased from Outlaw Women Scrapbook Emporium.  Thanks for stopping by.