Left of Centre Challenge #74

Left of Centre Challenge this week is to create a TAG or an ATC. The sponsor is Smeared Ink.  I love the Toxic Ballerina range.

Instructions

1. Cut tag from a piece of old card.

2. Paint yellow.

3. Stencil with deeper yellow paint and  damask stencil.

4. Cut a strip if blue card and punch border and attach, using same blue card punch out some blue diamonds and attach.

5. Stencil with blue ink and a splatter stencil.

6. I printed out the image and used chalk pastels for colouring.  Cut out and attach with foam dots.

7. Ink the edges in blue.

8. Print out and attach the quotes ( I made this one up).

TFL  Lou x

Spiders - Love the Unloveable

Well it's Friday so that means another challenge over at Left of Center. This time I've used a great image from Sami Stamps called Spider Hugs. I love spiders but I must be one of the few people who do (many of my friends are arachnophobes). So, I decided to make a little tag to show how loveable they really are. I used distress inks splodged around with some water for the background, then ambossed it with a spider web embossing folder and highlighted parts of the web with black ink. I added some black pompom ribbon to the bottom, coloured the image using whatever I could find (having a bit of a clear up at the moment!) and stuck it on. Now, his little spindly legs got a bit lost amongst the black of her dress and the web, so I made some in the same style from green wire. Finally, I so wanted to add googly eyes but I can't find mine, so I used some glossy accents and little pearls instead, added a wee spider charm to her hair, and job done.

I hope you enjoyed it, and do pop over to Left of Center if, like me, you appreciate our little eight legged friends, as the theme this week is spiders so there should be lots of inspiration for you.