Visible Image Challenge - April 2014 - Tags

Over at the Visible Image Challenge Blog this month the topic is "tags" so I thought I would play along.  I enjoyed making the tag but have had a nightmare trying to photograph with or without a flash.  This is the best I can get with the mirri card and mica powder!!!

I decided to make my own backing paper for the tag.  I coloured areas of a piece of watercolour card with Tim Holtz's Mustard Seed, Old Paper, Dusty Concord and Black Soot distress inks.  I then put some water in a mist bottle and added some silver and purple mica powder, mixed well and then sprayed over the card.  I then used some kitchen roll to add texture and remove the colour in places.  I then finally rubbed some metallic gold Pan Pastel on for some shine.  I'd have used a metallic silver if I had one but I don't.  The card was then cut into a tag shape with a layer or mirri card underneath.

I then used a Visible Image stamp called "Isabella Lost Love" and stamped Isabella onto some white card and coloured in with Graph'it pens, highlighting her cape with a silver Graph'it pen for some sparkle.  Around the edge of the tag and over it I have stamped the splodges and skull stamp from the "Isabella Lost Love" stamp set.  Around the edge of the tag I used the chain effect stamp which comes on the stamp set called "Max Rocks".

I have finished the tag off with a doily inked with a purple chalk ink pad, raffia ribbon, purple raffia, die-cut flower with brad centres, buttons, faux stitching, satin/organza ribbon and a ribbon bow.

I am entering this tag into the following challenges:

Visible Image - Tags

4 Crafty Chicks - Colour a stamped image

Craftitude - Anything goes or add corrugated paper or cardboard

Crafts 4 Eternity - Anything but a card - I have made a tag

Suzy Bee's Blooming Challenge - Anything goes

We Do Doobadoo - Buttons and bows

Stamping Sensations - Use those dies and/or punches (Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Strip Die used to make the flowers)

613 Avenue Create - Anything goes with the optional extra of the sights/smells/sounds/tastes of spring

Pile it On - Feminine

One Stitch at a Time - Flowers

Craft Your Passion - No designer papers

Eureka Stamps - Buttons and bows

The Crafty Bloggers Network - Die-cuts or embossing

Craftin' Desert Divas - Anything goes

Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes/Easter

Artistic Inspirations - Easter animals or anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything goes

Clear it Out Challenge - Anything goes and faux stitching (the purple raffia ribbon I have had for 2-3 years)

Love to Scrap - Anything goes
Let's Craft and Create - Punches and dies
Penny's Paper Challenge - Flower power
Whimsy Stamps - Anything goes
Rhedd and Rosie - Anything goes
Word Art Wednesday - Anything goes
Creative Moments - Anything goes and optional twist of girly