Trees. . . . . . .

I'm very keen on trees and would probably be a tree hugger if the weather allowed here in UK (and I wasn't so vertically challenged!)! I know it sounds daft but they can be so beautiful and of course, as the seasons change, their beauty changes and draws us in more. (My husband does the odd eye roll as I'm always pointing out trees when we're in the car and I think he's pretty bored with my obsession by now!).

The lovely ladies at Artful Times very kindly chose trees as their theme this time so I needed no mojo searching and had a lovely, inky play to produce this tag:

A white card tag was embossed in a tree folder. The tree was inked with walnut distress ink and the 'sky' was coloured with watercolour pencils. 

Some floral images were stamped and then embossed with distress powder to give that lovely textured look. The lace (another huge favourite) was cut from Tim's resist paper and double embossed with clear powder.

The letters were also cut from Tims resist paper and inked then embossed twice with clear powder. I love how the original resist on the paper still shows through the inking and embossing. Embossing twice seems to have made them darker thus lending an aged appearance which I rather like.

I used several watercolour pencil shades for the blue and blended lightly with a water-brush - I wanted it to work well against the brown and act as a lifting element - I hope you think it works. The little flowers ( I can't resist using them!) were also cut from Tim's resist but they look so different without the embossing and just the addition of inks and some have picket fence stain too. The little gems are really red and have been toned down with alcohol ink but some red is allowed to shine through for added effect.

The remaining white areas of the tag were lightly inked with walnut distress and stamped with script. Some water was spritzed and flicked to create a distressed finish.

Hope you like the tag and thank you so much to my new followers who have left such lovely comments - it's always nice to know that someone is looking!

Thank you too, to the lovely and hugely talented Ana who recently nominated me for a 'child's shoe' blog award: namely one which supports those with less than 200 followers in order to promote more visitors to their blog. Thank you for that Ana and I'll be in touch with you again about my possible nominations.