Fringe Flowers and Misty Backgrounds

Here I am, back with another flower and tag. There's even been a spot more stamping. Suddenly there's this impulsive urge to start inking up my collection of rubber stamps.

The flower began life as two punched out, 50mm dia. circles. I chomped around the edges with deckle-edged scissors, trimming more from one of them to create a smaller shape. I inked around the edges and carefully cut the thin petals with scissors. Using the back of a paintbrush, I gave the flower some shape and then with a dollop of glue in the centre, I added seed beads.

The frame is a stamped image onto card, cut out with scissors. I frayed the inside edges before sprinkling on a layer of clear embossing powder. To finish, I daubed on some white acrylic paint to soften the colour.

The background, I painted in grey acrylic before spritzing with a white mister and allowing to dry. A variety of trims were adhered to the bottom and I stamped the bird cage onto pale card before arranging it behind the frame. To finish, I tied a thin length of netting through the top of the tag.

Two tags down, one to go.

Have a wonderful, creative day
Paul x