Pink Enough?

Hi there and welcome to my Simon Says Stamp and Show post.  I wish you all a happy Valentine's Day.    Our challenge to you this week is to show us a tag.  I've been making a lot of Valentine's art recently and although this isn't truly a Valentine's piece, you can tell by the colors that I am still in that mode.

All tags must be vintage, right?  So I started my vintage tag by stamping from Urban Grunge, Flights of Fancy and Mini Holidays in Aged Mahogany.  Then I applied one of my very favorite Tim Holtz techniques - Rusted Enamel over the entire tag and treated the edges to a bit of gold UTEE.  The glittered oval frame was cut with a Spellbinders Petite Scalloped Oval die and distressed with Tattered Rose ink.  The frame was embellished with Spellbinders Floral Accent die cut which was painted with Tattered Rose crackle paint and crowned with one of my enameled roses that just happened to be sitting on my work desk waiting to be used.  The sentiment was printed on my computer and attached with one of Tim's tiny safety pins and the shabby seam binding was dyed with Tattered Rose distress ink.  

I know there's not much originality here, but cut me some slack.  I've been sick for 4 days now and I think my mojo has dried up and blown away.  I have to tell you that I struggled with this tag for over 8 hours, just putzing around, changing this and re-doing that.  I don't know why but nothing seemed to gel for this make.  Today I received some gold glass glitter and wished I had had it yesterday to use instead of the white glitter.  Maybe that would have better satisfied me.  

So now skedaddle from here and see what my teamies at Simon Says Stamp and Show have whipped up for your inspiration.  I guarantee you will LOVE what you see there.  And then see what you can come up with for a tag this week.  Our generous sponsor, Simon Says Stamp, has a $50 random prize this week.  Wouldn't you love a $50 shopping spree at Simon Says Stamp?  Believe me, they have EVERYTHING on your wish list!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for any comment you care to leave.  

POST UPDATE:  I had an inquiry from a reader about the image I used here.  It is a vintage download from the Internet and the site where I acquired it several years ago is closed.  So if you would like it, please email me at thefunkiejunkie@gmail.com and I will send it to you.