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Itty Bitty day 4 - Distress Ink Joy



Hello Friends

I went a bit crazy with my distress inks for this tag :) I love getting messy with these inks. I love purple so I decided to go with that for today's colour scheme. I used Dusty Concord for the bottom colour and Milled Lavender for the top colour. I sponged the tag and sprayed a lot of water so the colours would bleed together. I dried it with my heat gun and sprayed more water until I was happy with the background effect. I used the flower from the Feel the Joy stamp set. I heat embossed it with white embossing powder so that the white colour would pop. I created the words with an alphabet stamp set I got free with Papercraft Essentials Magazine. Finally I added some rhinestones and ribbon.

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Comments

  1. Gorgeous stuff, purple is my favorite colors and the distressing here is just great. :)

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  2. This is lovely, Mandi. This embossed image really pops against the lavender!

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  3. Beautiful tag Mandi. Love the look that you got from the inks.

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  4. Purple is my favorite color too. I love this. Don't you just love embossing with white?

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  5. Very pretty, loving the distressing and the purple!

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  6. Beautiful Tag love how you did the purples BG! Love the white embossed flowers, great job! Found you at Unity's Friends w/ Flair Friday! Stay Crafty!
    Peace,
    KristyLee

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  7. This tag is so pretty I love the purple and white contrast.

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  8. Great tag, I love the distressed background and the bold pop of your white flower. Thanks for joining us for this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!

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  9. So pretty, all of it. I like seeing your flower creations filled with art. :)

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  10. Mandi, this is gorgeous!! Get messy all ya want.

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  11. So pretty! You're right - that white embossing totally pops!

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  12. Love the purple and how the white pops against it. So pretty!

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  13. Hey Mandi. This is so pretty. I just love purple and all those blended colours are so pretty. I'm following you on your blog. Make sure you follow me too.

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  14. You my dear are the queen of beautiful tags!!

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  15. Beautiful tag! That embossing really pops!

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