1 or 2 stamp sets

Limit myself to just 1 or 2 Studio 490 stamp sets on a #8 tag?  Yes, that's what our list mom said on the EWV yahoo group for our 25th Making Art! challenge.  I decided to go a step further and keep it to the one set but use all the stamps in the set.  I chose Be Inspired, a new Ranger Kraft tag and lots of Ranger inky things.

I love kraft cardstock and fall!  They work so well together.  The plaid background stamp was treated to Snow Cap pigment ink and white embossing powder.  Afterwards several brown distress inks were smudged over the tag.  On kraft cardstock I stamped the flower three times, the leaf spray twice and the sentiment using Butterscotch, Lettuce, Espresso, Cranberry and Dusty Concord pigment inks.  Coordinating embossing powders were used on all.  The numbers at the top of the tag were stamped in Coffee Archival Ink.  White Enamel Accents was used for the flower centers and the faux brads on the sentiment tag.  The Inkssentials pen was used for the penstitching on the sentiment tag.  Martha Stewart ribbon in coordinating colors were treated to a dip in coordinating Ranger Distress Stains to darken them.  More brown distress inks were run around the flowers and leaves after they were cut out.

The flowers and leaves are curled and furled but sure don't look like it on this piece.  They look very, very flat.  Sigh.