Spring Colours And Tattered Florals For ABAC And Tim Holtz

Hi everyone. The new challenge at Anything But A Card goes live today and I'd like to show you my DT piece. I'm also going to enter this large tag in Tim's Tattered Floral Challenge (you have to if you love making flowers like I do!). There is also a new challenge blog run by Country View Crafts (You know: the company that do free shipping on most items - not to be missed!) Their theme is 'Pick And Mix' so I hope my Spring offering fits the bill!

Our theme for the next fortnight is Spring / Easter. You can interpret this in many ways including using spring colours as I have; use Spring as a starting point or an Easter theme, traditional or otherwise. You could even bring in Alice In Wonderland and the white rabbit - as long as there's a link somewhere, you'll be fine.

The challenge at ABAC is wonderfully flexible as ever and remember: you can make ANYTHING as long as you DON'T MAKE A CARD. You must go over to the blog and see what today's teamies have come up  and next Sunday the second team go live with their makes so don't forget to see their pieces too.

I've got quite a few pictures to show you so get something nice to drink, a pair of sunglasses and start to scroll down:

I've made a large tag featuring flowers in Spring colours. The detail images which follow give a clearer view than this one - best photo of a bad bunch!

A gusset is inserted at each side on the lower edge of the tag. The pieces were prepared in the same way as the tag.

The die cut letters were coloured with distress (dusty concord); stamped with archival and coated with glossy accents.

The large tag was cut from white card and the background was created with distress inks, distress stain (picket fence), Fresco snowflake paint, stamps and stencils. A scalloped border was stamped onto spare card coloured as per the tag. The border was cut out and embossed with two coats of utee. The tag was folded up at the bottom and the border attached with side gussets made from card. This allows the stems / springs to be inserted.

Card was covered with metal tape for all the flowers. Various tattered florals were cut out and coloured with alcohol inks. The blue colour is much more purple in reality. The yellow flower was stamped with text and embossed with distress EP in black soot. This EP was also added to the end of some petals. The centre of the flowers is made from chunky twine unravelled.

The flower was made as previously written. All flowers had a 'spring'  made from florist wire applied. This flower adds interest to the chunky twine at the top of the tag.

The florist wire spring and some background detail.

The purple flowers have a more elaborate stamp used to decorate them but they have been made in the way as the yellow flowers.

A topper was made for the tag using a Tim On The Edge die. The scalloped border stamp was applied to card coloured with dusty concord distress ink. Two coats of utee followed.

Thanks so much for getting this far with my post - a little longer than usual but I wanted to show as many details as possible. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I hope to catch up with many of you soon.