Tag Tuesday - Italy

The current theme over at Tag Tuesday is: Italy ... what a wonderful theme! I like Italy a lot. I have been a couple of times in Tuscany and it is wonderful with the rich colours, the amazing landscape and brilliant food .... wish I would be there (sigh)

 

The design of the tag is really quite simple. I used as background a Gelliplate print which I created during a workshop with Andy Skinner (the workshop was brilliant!)

 I stamped (all stamps are Crafty Individuals) the Travel words with VersaMark Watermark ink on the background and heat-embossed with WOW embossing powder (I used it for the first time and I am quite impressed by the quality of it)

 

I applied the same procedure to the square images using a different Gelliplate print

I cut the images in squares and mounted them with foam pads on the tag.

The tag is embellished with just a little paper flower and a little half-pearl.

Wishing you a lovely weekend, happy crafting, Petra.

linked to: No Matter Which Challenges - Anything Goes

Cheerful Monday #7 - Ballett Shoes

These are wonderful ballett shoes and take me right back to the time when my daughter did ballett in her free time ... ballett with all its glamour but also the pain especially for dancing on points ... oh dear, I am getting all nostalgic now (sigh) ... let's go quickly back to this adorable image from A Day for Daisies

 a little 10x10cm card base layered with Craftwork Cards patterend paper

the image is coloured with Copics, the background created using digital papers,
and layered on black card

the ballett dancer is die-cut from EchoPark paper using a Marianne Design Die

lace from Imagine DIY, little pearls and a pearl heart

the shoes, leaves and rose were cut out and added to the main image as second layer 

given the image a little bit more depth

To see many more wonderful dance inspiration please do pop over to the Cheerful Stamp Pad blog, hope you can join us for the challenge, Petra.

Linked to: The Corrosive Challenge

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