Forgotten Friday 21- Steampunk Tag

Hi Folks, it's Friday again, phew what a week! It's been really hectic, but thankfully, I've recovered from my migraine. Before I show you what I've made this week, I'd like to say that the winner of my giveaway, was Sue.

This week, I have chosen to use some unused stamps from The Artistic Stamper. I bought these a while back, but just forgot about them. I coloured a tag with Distress inks, and stamped a sequin waste stamp, and large cog background across the tag, leaving the middle of the tag clear.

I then stamped the large and small flower, the leaf and the butterfly onto some sticky backed canvas, which I coloured with Distress Stains. I then cut these out and stuck them onto grungepaper, and coloured the reverse of the grungepaper too.

I added an ideology cog to the flower, and a spinner to the butterfly, before sticking them to the tag. I then just added some green ribbon to finish off my tag.

Why don't you take a look through your stash, and see what you have that is forgotten or neglected lying around. Make something with it during the week, and add a link in my comments. I'll pop along to your blog to take a look.

Thanks for stopping by today, Judith xx

Bah Humbug Crackers

The challenge over at the Bah Humbug Blog this week, is Crackers. I was a bit stumped at first, but I googled cracker templates. I downloaded a template that I liked, and decided to make a cracker and matching Christmas card.
I decided to go for a Kraft and red colour scheme, which was a nice warm blend of colours, and threw a little bit of green in there too. I stamped a swirly Elusive Images background onto brown wrapping paper for the cracker itself, and thicker Kraft card for my actual card. I made a couple of Poinsettias from sticky backed canvas mounted onto Grungepaper, after I had sprayed it with Adirondack colour wash sprays. I fixed the layers together with large brads, curling them a little bit. I used an Elusive Images sentiment for my card, and cut out a piece of cream card, using an oval Nestability. To get a fine mount for this, I drew around the same Nestability onto my red card, and cut this out by hand. I use the small curvy parchment scissors, which are great for cutting curves.

I really like the way the cracker turned out, so I may make some more of these for the Christmas meal, I just need to collect some useless cracker jokes, and the bits to go inside them, between now and December, and I'll be fine!

Thanks for stopping by today, any comments you care to make are really appreciated, Judith xx