London Distress Style

Hi all, don't ask, I haven't a clue why I chose that title lol. I have been playing in the craft room this evening and decided to play along with the challenge over at Dragons Dream Tag which is Red, Text/Book page, An embellishment, I haven't been able to play for the last couple of their challenges with how busy I was with the accounts, but it's great to be able to play again :-)

I stamped the flag with distress stains and then added the picket fence stain

in the areas where the white would be on the flag.  Then I used

clear embossing powder and heat set it.

I used several distress inkpads for the rest of the tag, then I splated

water to give the speckle effect. I sewn around the tag and then

stamped the London over the flag and also heat embossed that.

I'm not sure I like the frame I made as I went over the edges with the UTEE but as

you can see the chipboard frame was entirely different to what it came

out as lol, the inside is a stamp.

I also dipped my edges into the UTEE and I used distress stains for

my ribbon, to grunge it up a bit I also used black soot.  Then I twisted

and tied some knots at the end then pulled them apart to add some more texture.

The bottom ribbon is a book page that I sewn, then I covered it with

distress stain and did the edges in black soot. Then I stapled it

onto my tag, before I did I coloured my staples with a

black promarker :-)

Eek look at the time, it finishes in about 10 minutes eek eek lol lol.  Happy Crafting :-)
Hugs Kezzy xxxxx

Recipe
Stamps - Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz London Sights
Distress stains - barn door, salty ocean, picket fence
Distress ink pads - black soot, barn door, fired brick, festive berries
Archival jet black and Versafine onyz black ink pads
Ranger Clear UTEE
Fresco paints - little black dress, crackle glaze, baltic blue (frame)
Crafts Too chipboard frame
Book paper
Postage Stamp
WOW ultra fine clear embossing powder
Black promarker
Gems
Crown charm