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Sunday 17 June 2012

A Tag and a Crimbo card

Well it's been beautiful sunny weather down here in the South East, hope you've all had good weather too.
The tag was to answer a ? I'd asked earlier about whether a certain technique would work with Pan Pastels, and yes it does! Don't know the name of the technique? But it's where you lay colour down then stamp over it with versamark and lift the colour! So I made a tag with black card and masked a thin edge with some low tack tape, and splodged on yellow hansa, diarylide yellow, permanent red and white pan pastels, lightly blended, then stamped with versamark, using two Kanban stamp that came as a set with an elegant ladies head, sprayed with some very cheap hairspray, added 3 black gems, punched a hole added a gold star shaped eyelet and some orangey yellow ribbon and viola. Was an experiment but think it came out ok? What ya think?
Xmas card, 8x8 scalloped edge white card base, I used paper from the Holly jolly 12x12 paper set, I used the reverse side to make the poinsettia's, spellbinders die, used two ribbons to make a bow and added a button and two hat pins, a bit of bling by way of swirly black gems, and a white glittery peel off, I don't like using peel offs but sometimes they are just the job. Thank you for taking the time to look. Xxx





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17 comments:

Unknown said...

Love your tag and your card!! Beautiful!!

Pauline Power Burke said...

Hi Zoe,
I love the idea of the pan pastels which I have none of at all .. so that will be another spend someday :) You did a great job with the tag, terrific colours and elegant stamps as well. You are getting organised already for Christmas great idea I love your card x

Zoe said...

Thank you Pauline, I'm a bit behind this year with the xmas cards, I usually start in Jan lol, the pans are a new purchase for me, only got some last week and already ordered more colours they are fab, you need to look at Eileen's blog, her work is gorgeous.

Zoe said...

Thank you Cheryl x

Trudi said...

These are lovely, you're really racing along with your pan pastels :)

Marc Southall said...

These are great Zoe ! i love the tag, that technique sounds interesting, i'll have to try it :)

Saz said...

Hi Zoe, Lovely card, christmas already i can't think about it just yet, which means i will be running behind again lol you are my forth rung on the Cards Galore Blog ladder! have signed up to follow you :)x

Zoe said...

Thank you Saz will do likewise xxx

Linda Simpson said...

These are stunning Zoe! I am loving the tag it looks very effective.

Hugs
Linda xxxx

Zoe said...

Thanks Linda always appreciated xxx

Unknown said...

Beautiful card and tag, Christmas will be here before we know it, thanks for you kind comment and following you 2, big hugs Jo xxx

Joan said...

Love both of these, but the Christmas card wow xx

Barbara said...

Great creations Zoe....Love the tag, and I adore the Poinsetta dies, I used them so much last Christmas xx

Zoe said...

Thank you Barbara, that poinsettia dies are one of my favourite sets.

Eileen said...

You have taught me something now cos I have used the 'normal resist' a lot but not this technique... super duper result! I am doing a demo this morning at my crop .. going to do one of these I will post it next week .... DT stuff for the blog tomorrow so I will leave it until Tuesday ... and link to you as a credit ... Ooo gonna use this a lot I think!! E xxxx

Barbara said...

Thought I'd come back and make another comment.....I mis-read your post, and thought you'd pp'd the tag, then stamped in black. This was a clever technique, I would never have thought of doing it xx

Zoe said...

Thank you Barbara I think it's called the lift technique? Xxx