IBFS tag

Hello! It's Wednesday and time for another I Brake for Stamps challenge. The challenge for the next two weeks is to make a project with a background stamp. You can read the details over on the I Brake for Challenges Blog. I'm not sure my tag counts as using a background stamp, but it's what I was inspired to make! (It's early here in NY-the challenge will be up in a bit) this is the IBFS Snowflake collage. There are many new stamps in the store and Della also sells Wild Orchid flowers! Use my code SAVE10CHERYL for 10% off your order!
I stamped the image in Memento tuxedo blac and colored the blue sections with BG10 and then darkened some areas with BG72 and a touch of BG75. Then I used E42 and a blender to darken the tan areas that I wanted. I used BG78 around the edge of the tag and some E37 around the stamped image.
Of course I wanted soime sparkle so I added distress stickles (sugar candy) with my finger and dried it with my heat gun. Then I added stardust stickles to other areas for a different sparkle.
A ribbon in the top and my tag was done!
(The "for You" sentiment is a stamp from an old SU set) You could also handwrite the recipients name in the box.
I love that you visited today! Please consider joining our background stamp challenge. You don't have to use an IBFS image, but if you do that'd be great!
Enjoy your day!
Hope mine is better than yesterday!
Cheryl

Tag Card-Inside and Out!

Hello! A quick post today with the inside of the Tag Card I posted the other day! I used more patterns in the Making Memories Together line for the inside panels. The dotted one matches the front as you can see below! I {{love}} the plaid pattern! It was the original inspiration for my main image on the front! Here's the original post for the Inspiration and links to make a tag card!

Here's a reminder of what the front looks like. You kind of bend the top back a bit to release the front and it opens down.

I found my paper with the colors. They are:

BG10 and BG72. E000, E11, E00 and R30

R30, R21, R22 cheeks and snowman nose

Y21, YR21, YR24, E99 broom

YG91, 93 and 95

E42, E31, E35, E25 and E29

Please remember to enter your name over at Jacque's Joie de Vivre for the Sunday Sensations Prize!! This week it's 25.00 for two in stock stamps ~one Edwin and one Tilda! AND rumor has it that the new collection is in stock and selling like crazy!! You have until Tuesday at midnight to enter your name on Jacques' blog! There are lots of new MINIs in stock too!

Tomorrow I will have an easel card made with one of the minis that is very familiar to you! Please return if you can!

Thanks for visiting today!

Nancy asked me a question about coloring and I will get that answered too!

Tag-you're it!

Hi! I'm feeling a little guilty for not getting more posted this week so I'll show you some pics of some of the tags I recently sent to Diana as samples for CHA~

The minis are really fun to work with! I did stamp the cuties on xpress blending card because it is my favorite for coloring. But, I anted the tags to have more structure so the images were cut out and glued onto tags cut from the card stock with the flecks of brown in it. (don't know if I used PTI or Su, but you get the idea!

Then I added shadow around the image with the toner grays in T1 and T3 for more dimension.

I didn't keep track of the colors, so I hope you'll forgive me!

I have so many more of the Minis that I want to get stamped and colored!!

You can get them all at Magnolia-licious AND while you're there you can preorder the You're So Special new collection! OMGoodness! I want them all!!

Hoping to get more done this weekend AND we have Monday off from work! Yeah!!

Also wishing a great day and weekend for YOU!!

(Tomorrow is the 15th and that makes it time for the firs Copic Creations Challenge of 2011~ come on back! (please!)

Cheryl