Memories

Been having a quiet couple of days since the weekend. As I had a day off to day I decided to spend a bit of it in my shed. I had an unfinished page in my journal which had been sitting there for a couple of weeks..so I decided that today was the day it would be finished..
My mum has been in my thoughts more than usual this week as it would have been her birthday on Tuesday. Some years I feel better than others but this year was not a good one  :'(

I had more or less completed the background and die cut the Tim Holtz dwelling die, stamped and cut out some bunting from an artistic outpost set. what to do next. I stuck everything down. I cut out some numbers from the word play die and decided to use all the numbers that represented the places I had lived in..73 was the number of the house I was born in etc...So many happy memories....so that's my page finished, a trip down a very happy and sad memory lane...

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Out came the porfolios

Good afterenoon to you all, I hope you are all having a lovely Sunday....

You know how we all have loads of lovely crafty stash and some times..just some times you forget about certain things..Well over on the paper artsy blog on friday Helen Chilton popped on with a tag card she had done with Portfolio Pastels. You can go over and have a look here. I thought ohh I haven't used mine for ages!! so in between cooking sunday dinner and cleaning the house I popped out to my shed and had a go at a quick tag! And here it is....


I stamped some script on some white card and added it to the tag. Next I scribbled some portfolios randomly and blended them with my fingers.
Next I took a couple of Stencils and rubbed with a baby wipe to remove some of the colour. I blasted the tag for a few seconds with my heat gun so that the portfolios would just melt into the tag.
I then chosed my Lynn Perella image and stamped that in black archival. Then the words from a paper artsy stamp plate onto a scrap piece of card which I cut out and inked the edges wih coffee archival I put theses onto the tag with some foam squares.
Finally I edged the tag first in coffee archival and then black.



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