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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Bountiful Blessings

Hi Everyone! I hope you are enjoying your day. It has turned quite cold here. I guess it is about time! I want to share the tag I made for Tim Holtz's tag challenge for November. November is the time to count our blessings and we sure have plenty to be thankful for. Can you believe Thanksgiving is almost here?

Tim shared a chalkboard technique that has a little twist to the normal chalkboard technique. You can see it by clicking here.

I used the Sparkle N Sprinkle Pumpkin Stack and saying from the Fall Harvest set. The leaves are from Inkadinkado and the script stamp is a Hero Arts stamp.




The leaf at the top of the tag was made by heating copper mesh with a heat gun. The mesh turns beautiful colors. Then I adhered an outline leaf sticker to the mesh and cut it out. You can see a better picture of it here.  See the pretty colors the copper turns?



I pop dotted the bottom pumpkin on the pumpkin stack as well as the label with the saying. To color the label and tag edge, I swiped Distress Inks on my craft sheet, spritzed them with water and placed the tag and label in the inks and rubbed them around. I always love the blended look of this technique.




Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by! I hope you have a wonderful and blessed day!

Challenges entered:

Artistic Inspirations:  Use a Sentiment/Anything Goes
Lexie's Creations:  Thanks and Thanksgiving
Love to Create:  Thanks and Thanksgiving
Simon Says Stamp and Show:  Use Ink

16 comments:

Basslady said...

wow! what an awesome tag!

hugs and kisses from germany,
silvi (GD this week on lexi's creations challenge)

Blossom Cards said...

lovely tag thanks for sharing with lexis creations this week Rachel DT

Fran said...

Great tag thank you for joining us over at Kaboodle Doodles this week xxx

Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...

Lovely tag, the chalkboard technique looks fabulous and imlovemthe pumpkins. Gorgeous dimensional autumnal leaf too. Thanks so much for,joining in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. Tracy x

Sue said...

Hi April, love the pumpkins on the blue, they look super. And the leaf is so pretty.

Hugs
Sue

Eret said...

April, this is the best project I have seen made with the chalkboard technique. Love it! And the leaf you've made looks amazing too.
Eret x

Anne Temple said...

Love your take on his tags! Love the pumpkins on the dark blue.

Ime said...

beautiful tag!!! thanks for joining us at kaboodle doodles

Carmen said...

Beautiful tag. Love the techniques you used on the leaf and the main ticket. Thanks for entering Artistic Inspirations use a sentiment
Carmen
DT/Co-owner

Unknown said...

Gorgeous tag! Thank you for sharing your project with us this week at Love to Create.
Ruza, LTC Designer
Ruza's Craft Corner

Amanda Phillips said...

What a very cool tag! Thank you for sharing your creation with us over at Love to Create Challenges
Amanda LTCDT

Donna Ellis said...

A beautiful tag, April - and a wonderful use of the chalk board technique! hugs, de

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Shirley said...

Really warm and lovely. TFS how you did the leaf. It looks embossed or many using the Viva Decor. Yours is beautiful!

Mayras Designs said...

What a beautiful tag !!! I really love the leaf , it looks amazing !!

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