Skip to main content

Imperfections



Hello Friends

I made this tag for the Make It Take It Challenge over at the craft stamper. The colours also fit in with the Unity Be Inspired Challenge.  I love the colours of all of. the leaves on the trees right now so I wanted to keep with an autumn theme.  I was going for a grungy, distressed look  to match the meaning of the sentiment. So I decided to make another tag. I cut this one out of cardboard.  I used some gesso over the card then applied my distress inks. Then I peeled the edges of the cardboard to reveal the corrugated look underneath.  Next I heat embossed the flower on top with white embossing powder. Then I stamped my sentiment using the same 3 inks on the tag and cut it up and glued the words on separately. Finally I took some ribbon and coloured them with my distress inks to coordinate with the tag. This is something a little different for me as I usually go with a much cleaner look. I really do like the way it turned out though.

Thanks so much for stopping by

Mandi xox

Supplies 
Distress Inks - Rusty Hinge, Peeled Paint & Seedless Preserves
Unity Stamp Company  Stamps - Insightful Meadows & Everything Resides in Hope
Gesso
Ribbon
Rhinestones
Corrugated Card 

Challenges
Simon Says Stamp Wed 
Friends With Flair 
Simon Says Stamp Monday 

Comments

  1. AnonymousOctober 9, 2014 at 6:40 AM

    Lovely tag

    ReplyDelete
  2. nancy yOctober 10, 2014 at 6:41 PM

    using the cardboard made for a unique tag! Love the colors you used.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Paper Therapy PonderingsOctober 10, 2014 at 6:46 PM

    love the look of your tag - love the cardboard tag and the texture
    thanks for sharing

    Barb Housner

    ReplyDelete
  4. TracyOctober 10, 2014 at 7:39 PM

    Adore the sentiment Mandi and it turned out .... gorrrrgeous!! xoxox

    ReplyDelete
  5. RubyOctober 10, 2014 at 8:45 PM

    Very pretty tag.

    ReplyDelete
  6. DawnllOctober 10, 2014 at 10:59 PM

    Such a pretty tag with great layers and colors.

    ReplyDelete
  7. ReneeOctober 11, 2014 at 1:12 AM

    I love all the textures and colors! Thanks for joining us at the Take It Make It Challenge.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Kris BOctober 11, 2014 at 4:46 AM

    Gorgeous tag! love the mixed media look! Beautiful sentiment!

    ReplyDelete
  9. JanisOctober 11, 2014 at 5:03 AM

    I used this stamp for my FWF project, too!! :) Your tag is wonderful!!! You have pulled this style off with flair! :) Thanks for sharing.
    <3 J

    jwoolbright at gmail dot com
    HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com

    ReplyDelete
  10. Dawn FieldsOctober 11, 2014 at 5:24 AM

    Fabulous tag!

    ReplyDelete
  11. FarleyOctober 11, 2014 at 7:19 AM

    Your very creative tag is a knock out!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Mary Anne / MA54KOctober 11, 2014 at 12:48 PM

    Totally gorgeous tag!

    ReplyDelete
  13. Virginia L.October 11, 2014 at 3:52 PM

    BEAUTIFUL tag, Mendi! Thanks for sharing your creative process! And thanks so much for playing Simon Says Stamp Wednesday “Watercolor” Challenge!

    ReplyDelete
  14. Sue DOctober 12, 2014 at 1:17 AM

    I like the colors and texture.

    ReplyDelete
  15. JPScrapsOctober 13, 2014 at 12:00 AM

    Outstanding tag! Love the fall colors.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Michelle October 13, 2014 at 4:44 AM

    Great tag, Mandi! The touch of white is very pretty. Thank you for sharing your work with us at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. ~Michelle

    ReplyDelete
  17. MiwaOctober 13, 2014 at 7:10 AM

    Oooh, what a lovely tag, love it!

    ReplyDelete
  18. Anna-KarinOctober 13, 2014 at 3:04 PM

    Such a pretty tag! Love the gorgeous background, the white flowers and great sentiment. Thank you so much for sharing with us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog!!

    ReplyDelete
  19. CrystalOctober 13, 2014 at 5:21 PM

    Very nice tag!

    ReplyDelete
  20. ElizabethROctober 14, 2014 at 2:13 PM

    A gorgeous tag Mandi, thanks you for sharing with us at the Take It Make It Challenge, Elizabeth x

    ReplyDelete
  21. LindaOctober 27, 2014 at 8:44 AM

    Lovely tag ..... great colours, and I love all the texture. Thanks for joining in with the TIMI challenge .... good luck! Linda xx

    ReplyDelete
  22. Nikki KOctober 27, 2014 at 7:23 PM

    Fab tag, lovely colours and the cardboard gives a great base. Thank you for joining us in the Craft Stamper Take it, Make it challenge this month, good luck. Nikki xx

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Unity & Misti Blog Hop

Hello My lovelies :) Welcome to the Unity and Misti blog hop! I  hope you are enjoying seeing all of the projects so far. I just had my first wee play with the Misti tool the other day. It is a very new to me tool and wow do I LOVE it!! It is awesome! Just for the simplest of things like positioning a stamp.  One time is all you need with the Misti!! I am not one of those crafters that gets my stamped images crisp first time. I usually have wasted a card or two before I end up with a perfect image. This tool totally eliminates all of that.  Here is my very first card that I made with the Misti tool and Unity stamps.  I used a stamp called  Scattered Pieces . I LOVE this stamp and the sentiments that come with it.  I positioned the feather and the sentiment at the same time on the Misti.  I totally love that you can do that too!  It lets you stamp several at once instead of just eye b...
112 comments
Read more

Tag Trio Day 5 GIU

 Hello Friends Welcome to my final day as GIU girl. I must say that I have loved every minute of it and I have enjoyed putting all of my projects together for you to see. So I wanted to end my week with some distress tags. I love getting messy with my distress inks and using the embossing resist technique. I chose this lovely flower stamp set called  Insightful Meadows . The sentiments are from another stamp set called  The Simple Things . These were so easy to make I stamped all of the flowers and heat embossed them with white embossing powder. Then I took 3 different colours for each tag and swiped them on to my craft sheet. I spritzed some water and let the tag pick up the inks. I dried them 3 or 4 times in between until I had built up the colours I wanted.  I then stamped out the sentiments on to vellum and heat embossed them with white embossing powder. I attached the vellum with glue and glued it at the back of ...
61 comments
Read more

Craft Stamper November Challenge

Hey Friends Welcome to a new  Craft Stamper  challenge for November. Can you believe we are almost at the end of the year already!!  Where did time go?? It has been pretty cold and frosty up here in Scotland for the last few nights.   But I am hanging on to Autumn as long as I can. I took a wee walk around the park and collected some lovely Autumn leaves.  I wanted to incorporate them into my project today.  I put the leaves in some paper and put them inside a heavy book overnight to press them down.  I started off with a white card base and used this sentiment stamp from Unity and repeat stamped all down the side of my card using Potting Soil Archival Ink. Then I went around the edges with Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Ink.  Next I took my leaves and my paper punches and punched a heart shape out from the yellow leaf and then stuck it to my card with fabric glue.  Then I punched som...
1 comment
Read more