Saturday, 31 January 2009

The Colour Purple!


This tag is for this week's challenge of 'Purple' on 'Tag You're It!'.

I like this background paper as I think it is really versatile and have it in a number of colours! So I covered my tag shape with the purple shade and then stamped the 2 dragonflies onto plain white cardstock.

I then sponged the white cardstock with ink pad colour ' Purple Rio' and used Mica shimmer powder 'Violet Frost' to paint the wings. The same shimmer powder was used to edge the flower petals.

I decided to attach the top dragonfly with 3d foam pads to give it a raised effect and finally I added some pale purple ribbon.

I fear I am becoming hooked on making tags!!

14 comments:

Heather said...

I'm giggling - I know what you mean - I didn't make tags until this challenges - now I can't stop. But they come in usful as ready made card toppers if you need a quick card!!
Love your tag and the inner flowers are amazing, is that a paper?
hugs Heather xx

Jan said...

Tags are GOOD!! Love the delicate colours in this one

Kath Stewart said...

Hi Viv....gorgeous tag for the challenge...love your background and the butterfly...let me say that hooked is good...hooked on tags....hooked on blogging...hooked on crafting...way to go...thanks for joining us this week at TYI...enjoy the rest of your weekend
Hugs
Kathxxxxx

Dawn said...

Hiya Viv

Yaaay! Another Tag devotee!!
Well it's a beautiful tag and love the sentiment and gorgeous paper!
thanks for joining us this week!

Dawn

Sharon said...

Love soft colours. Just beautiful.

kareN stampZ said...

very pretty & lovely colour on a tag but very hard to read on a blog

melody said...

i so hear ya about making tags ~ yep ~ i'm addicted! beautiful tag chickie ~ lovin those dragonflies and sediment

Sarah said...

Oh good another crafter addicted to tags! This is a beautiful tag -

Thanks for joining in with the challenge this week!

stamp and scrape said...

Very delicate looking - the butterflies and dragonfly are just right!
Ros

Viv said...

Karen I hear you! I agree that sometimes small stamps are hard to read on the small pics.. I always click on the image to enlarge anyway..then I don't miss anything! It's amazing what details there are on some work that you don't see just looking at the blog pic!

Anne said...

This is just lovely!

Kristen said...

This is gorgeous!. I love the sftness of the purple. Great job!

Anonymous said...

I think this rocks! So pretty love the colors and everything!

Chriss Rollins said...

loving that shimmer powder and how true is the sentiment.

chriss x