Tag your it!

As both my DT duties are the same weekends (at the moment)

I am having more time to just play along with challenges.

Today I am incorporating 4 challenges;

TPS # 294 Faux/real stitching

I (heart) Promarkers # 335 Girls Birthday

Passion For Promarkers # 395 Tag it

Fab n Funky # 351 use background stamp / create a background

 I haven't made a tag for ages!!!

Creating your own background is way easier than most people think.

 I had this piece of card that I had just been testing

 my mini ink pads on to see if they still worked...

so base layer already done :D

 I've been seeing "background segment" stamps for sale.

I have background stamps...so I "segmented" one.

 I chose a piece of the "ink blocked" card...

 and over-stamped with the  segments,

before blending with distress inks.

 Pretty easy to select colours for my image using the backgorund

as a guide.

 Then I remembered the "stitching part lol

So I over-stamped again with stitch stamps from

Joanna Sheen's Haberdashery collection.

 Then it was just a matter of colouring with my promarkers,

tearing into a tag shape and adding embellishments :D

(image used "It's Tea Time" from TPS)

So why don't you go try making your own background..

it doesn't have to be a messy process all the time :D

Enjoy XXX