Saturday, October 16, 2010

Rabbit hunting

Gotcha!  I bet you thought I was going to talk about hunting and stuff, didn't you?  Nope!  When the CCC challenge was announced I was knee deep in visitors and other life stuff.  Good job, too, because my creative muse had taken the proverbial hike.  However, today I had some time and was trying to figure out what to put behind my fragment charm when I remembered some wrapping paper that might have just the image I wanted.  The little boy had a spring-like look to him and I immediately thought of Easter and Tim's set of stamps with the rabbit and grasses.  So, the little tyke is off hunting for the Easter Rabbit!

After making the fragment charm I inked up Tim's rabbit in black archival ink and stamped him, heat setting the ink afterwards.  I created a mask to cover him while I stamped Tim's grasses in green & brown archival inks over the rabbit.  Several green distress inks were used to color the bottom of the tag.

Tim's numbered border stamp was inked with white cap pigment ink with clear embossing powder; heat set.  Over this I used several blue distress inks for the sky.  Hmmm...the fragment charm features more pastel colors, not the distress colors I used.  How about some pigment ink over the green and blue?  Yup!  Juniper at the bottom and Cloudy Blue over the top gave me the pastel colors I wanted.

I added the ribbon tie to Peter and some blue flower button brads.  A ring through the charm so it could dangle on the string and I'm happy!

8 comments:

  1. This turned out adorable cute Susan! Love it.

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  2. Love the colours and the images. Great tag.

    Marilyn

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  3. Great tag! love the image in the charm.

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  4. This is just so cute! Love your charm!

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  5. Susan, this is darling!!! That little boy is SO cute, and he makes an adorable charm. It's fun to see something spring-oriented right now, and even more so when it's such a great design! I love the rabbit and the background and the clever little checkered pattern-- I love the whole thing! Great job, as always, on the CCC!

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  6. Ooooh Susan, how cute is THIS!? Love it! xo

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  7. What an excellent project! It fits right in with the Mad Hatter costume I'm going to be wearing in a week or so!!!

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  8. Very cool and creative, I'm pretty sure your muse has returned in full force!

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