Who do you love?

Feb 8, 2011

As a child grow­ing up I loved get­ting to visit my grand­par­ents. Grammy Childers and Grammy Spin­ney always had one thing in com­mon… flow­ers. I remem­ber know­ing I was at Grammy Spinney’s house as soon as I saw the pan­sies in her yard. And every sum­mer Grammy Childers had the most gor­geous Hydrangea bush just below her kitchen win­dow. The blooms were the size of din­ner plates. Her gar­den always had flow­ers grow­ing around it as well as along the side­walk of her house. So each time I see flow­ers bloom­ing I always think of them.

So since flow­ers seem to remind me of those two spe­cial ladies I thought I would share this tag I cre­ated for Ranger. It was in there booth dur­ing CHA-W. The flow­ers on this tag were cre­ated using the Tim Holtz Alter­ations Tat­tered Flo­rals Bigz Die, the bot­tle and script stamps by Wendy Vec­chi and loads of Ranger prod­ucts. I accented the flower cen­ters using cream pearls and the bow with a vin­tage but­ton. The seam bind­ing was white so I mixed Per­fect Pearls and Per­fect Pearl Mists together to cre­ate a paint and applied it to the seam bind­ing using a paint­brush. I then cre­ated the bow, scrunched it a bit and let it air dry. And I really like how the script stamp image on the tag looks like rain on a win­dow when using Per­fect Medium to stamp the image onto the tag and apply­ing UTEE. I wish I had a bet­ter photo show­ing the bot­tle the flow­ers are in… dang it. But I stamped the image onto grungepa­per, inked it using Bro­ken China Dis­tress Ink, cov­ered it with UTEE to give it a glass look then stamped the image again onto an old book page, cut out the cen­ter part of the image and attached it to the front of the bot­tle to look like a label. Of course I then accented the label with crys­tal coarse glitter.

Sup­plies Used: Per­fect. Medium; Perfect Pearls — Grape Fizz, Blue Raspberry, Perfect Gold; Perfect Pearls Mists — Per­fect Pearls, Blue Smoke, Sunflower Sparkle; Stickles – Crys­tal, Platinum; Distress Inks — Tea Dye, Vin­tage Photo, Bro­ken China; UTEE – Clear; Archival Ink — Jet Black; Inkssentials Sur­faces Manila Craft Tag — #8

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