Resist

Another Ally Pally weekend been and gone. As usual our local craft shop organised a coach trip and we enjoyed a Sunday checking out all the latest crafting goodies and lots of demos. I had decided that I would allow myself a new stamp set and of course it didn't take me long to find one, and then I couldn't resist a second smaller set. I found some good buys in white ribbon and ribbon flowers which can be inked to match projects, and some irresistible charms and stuff for altering, so came home very happy, inspired and not totally broke !

At the LB Crafts stand, I spotted some tags that Lin had made using the new Paper Artsy Fresco Finish chalk acrylics. Lin very kindly responded to my query about them, by using them to make a tag as her next demo and gave me the fabulous finished tag to keep. Naturally I had to try out some of the paint, and luckily I had a free morning yesterday. I've got a two page spread to do in a circle journal which has the theme of Time, so I decided to do a trial run.

I used the same colour scheme as Lin, but mine turned out much darker. I started by using Toad Hall (wonderful name) green acrylic as the resist, and Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Wild Honey and Vintage Photo Distress Stains. The stamping is Paper Artsy, Inkadinkadoo, Tim Holtz, Artistic Stamper and Personal Impressions in black archival. I've also used tissue tape coloured with the stains as Lin did. She also made some beautiful metal decoration for the tag, and I will definitely try that out at some point. Will do the final journal pages this week, with the same materials, but with a few changes to the stamping and with the addition of some embellishments.

PS For anyone who read my previous post about Mrs B., I actually heard some cheeping as I passed yesterday, and she was still sitting tight.