Oh my goodness is it really 50 years? It must be well maybe 51! We lived on the South Coast, Bournemouth with its stretch of golden sands and wonderful wooded chimes. My friends and I spent a lot of time down on the beach exploring, the walk through Boscombe Chime was very close to home and a wonderful playground. Designing this card has brought a lot of happy memories back.
This picture is so in keeping with those days of innocent friendship. It is a Tag shape cut using the TH tag die but folded and laid on the die so the left edge is the crease of the card. Image stamped and masked, no fiddly cutting for once, the outer edges dusted with DI giving you that rosey hazy glow of those far off summer holidays. Felt pens coloured the image some direct to paper, other scribble onto an acrylic block and transfer from there with a water brush.
Next using an old school compass small holes were pierced through the card. Embroidery silk stitched through the hole at the top and down through each piercing, twice. Three little charms saying Dream, Imagine, Believe, were added on the first pass and secured on the second.
My friends and I have all lost touch as life's adventures have taken us in different directions, back then we had our lives in front of us, and we do still have a lot of living to do but we also have our memories of that period between childhood and adulthood.
One of the challenges this is for specify a Tag Card that opens like a card, here is the evidence.
Stinkin' Inkers - Times 3 (use one item 3 times)
Through the Purple Haze - #171 ATG with option of stitching
Time out - #170 Inspiration word "Adventurous"
Love the tag/card design Zoe and what fabulous memories for you x. The way you added the charms and the stitching looks fabulous x.
ReplyDeleteLovely tag. Beautiful coloring of the image and love how you added the gold thread to the top. Thanks for joining the Stinkin' Inkers challenge.
ReplyDeletelove how your tag opens like a card! And what a lovely memory you have here! The image is perfect for this and coloured to perfection. I like how you used the silk and the charms are just perfect for this tag. Thanks for joining Time Out x
ReplyDeleteVery different and beautifully done! Thanks so much for accepting the challenge at 613 Avenue Create!
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I love those charms and the threads. The image is beautiful. Thanks for playing along with us at 613 Avenue Create.
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful, beautifullly done. Thanks for joining our challenge this month at Let's Craft and Create, Happy Crafting Michelle x
ReplyDeletePiękna kartka, dziękuję za udział w wyzwaniu Art-Piaskownicy.
ReplyDeleteBardzo ładna i ciekawa praca :-) Dziękuję za udział w wyzwaniu Art-Piaskownicy, pozdrawiam i życzę powodzenia :-)
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