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Saturday 16 March 2013

Happy St Patrick's Day!

I hope you have a great time celebrating this weekend and thought that in order to mark the occassion I would make a project.  I've had this free hat digi stamp from The Octopode Factory sitting on my computer for a while and thought it was about time I created something with it.  I am entering my tag into the following challenges:
Anything but a card Challenge 14 'Green, Irish, St Patrick's Day'
Crafters Cafe Blog Challenge 14 'Green and/or St Patrick's Day'
The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge 'Going Green'

I started with a Tim Holtz die cut tag and coloured it using various shades of green and yellow distress inks before spritzing with water and Dylusions.  Once dry I stamped a celtic 3 leaf clover and added a Tim Holtz crackle background stamp on to the tag.  I covered the whole thing with Tim Holtz rock candy crackle paint and once dry added more green distress ink and a little treasure gold.  I used double sided foam to attach the tag to a piece of black card stock cut just lager than the tag.  I stamped an appropriate Stampin'Up sentiment, punched out and backed with stampin'Up punches and attached it to the tag on foam tape before covering with glossy accents.  I printed the free hat digi stamp 3 times and cut one out as a whole, one without the brim and the top of the hat and the final one I cut just the ribbon and the shamrock.  I coloured all three images with distress ink and covered with the rock candy crackle glaze and then more distress ink.  I attached the 3 pieces in true decoupage fashion using the foam tape.  Finally I added 3 pieces of ribbon to the tag using the Tim Holtz tiny attacher.
Thanks for looking!
Tracey x

6 comments:

  1. Super project. I always love seeing a unique design point of view! Thanks for playing along with us at Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog!
    Hugz,
    Chana

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  2. Wonderful Tracey-the hat digi is super.

    Love Chrissie xx

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  3. Love that green - really vibrant! Cool tag!!

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  4. I agree with everyone else. This is such an awesome tag! I love seeing things done differently. Thanks for joining us for challenge #14 at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog. See you again soon! Hugs~Patti

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  5. Wonderful project, love the greens you have used, thanks for joining us at the Crafters Cafe Challenge Blog

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  6. This is lovely!! So glad you shared with us this month at The Crafter's Cafe Challenge Blog! Hope to see you again soon!
    Hugs,
    Karen C

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Thank you for taking the time to leave me a comment, it's much appreciated as I'd love to hear what you think of my creations! x