Another Sea Of Green. . . . .(with some orange and black too!)

I'm not usually very fond of green - I don't think I ever wear it very much. However, I've noticed that I use green fairly frequently in my crafting and I've even had to buy a 'peeled paint' re-inker! (Not that amazing really but it amused me!). After entering the challenge at Artful Times, I felt the need to continue on the green theme and produce something else.

I bought some new things on Saturday at Alexandra Palace - I went with my sister Sandie and we had a really fabulous day together: much looking, touching, oohing and ahing and of course some spending! We laughed and chatted all day until they said they were closing in fifteen minutes - shock horror!

I bought a plate of Lynn Perella stamps which I fell in love with. Not sure what I wanted them for - does it matter? - but I had to have a play. What better way to start than cutting a nice fresh tag from white card and getting out the inks?

The blank tag was spritzed with gold shimmer spray then coloured with dylusion ink sprays and details added with dylusion stencils, distress ink and some white picket fence distress stain. The image was stamped with black versafine and small areas were highlighted with green perfect pearls mixed with water and painted on. For further details scroll down.

The finished tag with some black grosgrain ribbon and beads added through the  hole at the top.

The flowers are die cut from card covered with aluminium insulation tape, coloured with alcohol inks, dry embossed with a couture embossing folder and then heat embossed with crystal powder. I added some  black stazon randomly over the flowers to give a 'grungy' feel as they looked too new and clean without it! I coloured some brads black and attached them through the flowers. Perhaps I should have bashed the brads a little with a hammer but thought it was too late at this point!

The lace is a TH die cut which has been coloured with spiced marmalade distress ink and then over inked with black soot to tone down the colour.

The perfect pearls painting can be clearly seen in this image along with the shimmer spray on the tag. I like the way the background stencil work shows through the face! I'm not so keen on the picket fence stain which shows up as whitish areas here and there - it's probably because I know where it is I suppose!

The die cut leaves were inked and stamped with another image from the same plate. I love these leaves - so  amusing to see a face peeking out at you from a leaf! I added a little perfect pearls to the faces.

Finally, all edges were inked with walnut stain just before the tag was put together.