Craft Barn Challenge #5

I'm a little late with this challenge due to being away and then being a little unwell and too busy! My apologies for not visiting much during the last week but now you know why! Luckily, the Craft Barn Callendar challenges are open until the final week so you can enter at any time.

Challenge #5 is to use paper tape either bought or self made. I opted to use some Tim tissue tape which I love but don't use that often. I'm still just playing with whatever takes my fancy to complete the challenges rather than being specific to any particular season or month. I might make my December entry the exception to the rule!

A little bird (who shall be nameless Buttons!) told me that the challenge for Sunday Stampers this week is to use Blue on your project so I thought I'd link my calendar page there too. Thanks Buttons!

Here's what I made using a die cut, some tissue tape, some stamps, some embossing and my trusty sewing machine:

The finished calendar page - looks a little washed out but for once it was sunny! I've used my sewing machine quite a lot for this piece - I really enjoy sewing anyway and I like the look of the edges finished with ink and stitches.

The background was inked with weathered wood, some script was stamped in the same colour and a little gold shimmer spray was applied which isn't evident at all.Versamark was used for the stamped images in the background followed by embossing with walnut stain distress powder. The edges of the background layer were stitched to finish the look.

The die cut was covered in Tim tissue and then stamped with coffee archival ink using a diamond stamp. To cover the tape joins, I machined over some jute twine with zig-zag stitch. It's not perfectly straight but I'm not perfect! Finally, before attaching, the die cut was inked around the edge.

The calendar was inked very lightly with weathered wood and walnut stain. The top edge was covered with tissue tape and then zig-zagged to cover the perforations. The other three edges were edged with straight stitch to complete the look.
The little flowers were made using a punch. Some were cut from the same card as the background and randomly stamped and embossed to match. The small white flowers were cut from card covered with tissue tape and both layers were inked around the edges. A small pearl was added to the centre of each flower. I was going to colour the pearls but decided they looked better left well alone!

Close up to show the tissue tape and stitching in detail.

Hope you like my inky offering and over the next few days, I hope to catch up with you all.