Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Grunge Flower Tag


So I guess I'm into wings this week. This weeks Compendium of Curiosities challenge #13 was grunge flowers. I decided to cover mine with music print paper and cut with the Tim Holtz Sizzix Tattered Floral die cut in my Cuttlebug. I also embossed some of them with Tim's embossing folders and then ran the distress inks over the top lightly to bring out the color. I cut the Wings out of the Sizzix Angel Wings die. I also embossed the wings with Tim's embossing folder to create the veining in the wings. I was careful in the placement and flipped the second one to create a mirror image. Love It!!! I don't know how I could have created this look any other way. The embossing did take away from the music print but really added a lot of texture so I think the pay off was worth it.








25 comments:

  1. Gorgeous tag! I love all the colors and the embossing. Thanks.

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  2. I love your flowers but your wings are amazing!!!Beautiful tag.

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  3. Beautiful tag. Love the flower and wing. Awesome

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  4. Simply gorgeous!!!!

    MichelleMyBelle

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  5. Oh CHRISTIE!!!! That is GORGEOUS!!!!!

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  6. Truly impressive, Christie! Beautiful! TFS!

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  7. I love all the texture in your piece of art, and those wings are simply gorgeous, I love them. Wonderful piece of art. Tracy Evans x

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  8. Gorgeous!!! I think the wings are perfect!!!

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  9. Hi Christie... this is beautiful... I too looooove wings, I can never get enough of them. And I love how you thought to mirror the image, it's those little details that makes a difference.... Love also how the wings are dimensional, just gorgeous. Have a creative day today !!! P.S. I'm also going to join in on the blog hop.... thnk for the coupons, I'm off to Michaels now !!!

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  10. WOW oh WOW are those wings gorgeous. Stroke of genius to emboss with the cracked folder. I will definitely be copying this fab idea! thanks for sharing!

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  11. Absolutely love your tag, that colour on the wings is so lush !! Fab stuff !!

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  12. Pretty fantastic looking!!! thanks for the inspiration!!

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  13. Christie, as always you've created a wonderful work of art for the CCC! Your grunge flower is gorgeous, and those red embossed wings are brilliant!

    I love it, too. It's beyond beautiful!

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  14. Amazing... I absolutely love it....

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  15. I am so glad I came to check out your tag. It is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!!! I love the deep reddish tone of the wings and the texture is great!!!!!! I love the music print with it. Thank you for sharing

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  16. I always love seeing what you create for the CC challenges! A few days ago I started at your blog and spent the entire afternoon hopping from one blog to another looking at all of the challenge entries. There is some AMAZING stuff being posted (yours included)!

    I love your tag, the texture that you created on the wings is amazing! And the color is beautiful, did you ink before or after you embossed it? And even though you think the embossing took away from the music print, I think the black notes in the music paper make really interesting highlights!

    Thanks for sharing Christie!

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  17. Hello Christie, this is gorgeous! I just purchased the wing die last night online. I was kinda up in the air about it, but now that I have seen what you have done with them I am sooo glad I ordered it and am excited about the possibilities! TFS and inspiring. Your work is truly amazing:)

    Stephanie

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  18. Nice tag love the wings Thank YOu

    Debbie

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  19. I also am making cards for soldiers and love it! Nice tag and wonderful scrapbook pages. Huggers Alesia

    scrapaholicaef@yahoo.com

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