Did I do any crafting today?

The answer to that question is yes, after all who wants to go out in that weather.  Certainly not me.

So what did I do?  Well, I made a card & a tag.  Both items were my entries for two challenge sites that I like to participate in.

I am going to show my entry for Theme Thursday here, as although it does have only one word on it, it has been stamped.  If you would like to see the other entry & read my blog - well, just click HERE.

The challenge at Theme Thursday was to make something to do with "family".  I had a good look amongst my stamps but couldn't say that any of them particularly shouted family at me.  Ooh, does that mean i have more stamps to buy?  So, in the end i went for an actual family & printed off a family photograph, an old one, onto ordinary copier paper.  I didn't want the image to be crisp & precise. I decided it was also time to make another tag so that was the second decision made.  So up into craftroom & have a rummage.  I found a pack of tags in a very strange shade of brown which was ideal for my "aged " look.  More rummaging & I found some twill type of ribbon in the right shade of funny brown.  The card had a small amount of 5 different ribbons or tapes.  I had bought them at Hobbycraft sometime last year & picked out several different colours.  I knew they would be just right sometime.  Next I needed some card for layering & some embellishments & ribbon.

Here is the tag;



I lightly sponged Adirondack caramel ink over the picture - lightly & not too even, just enough to age it. Then I layered it onto the burgundy paper, then onto the tag.  The ribbon went along the bottom, two cream & one burgundy rose at the top & some burgundy ribbon through the tag hole.  Then in burgundy ink I stamped "family" down the side, adding the peel-off word "special" above the ribbon.

What do you think?