Oh, those lazy days of summer...

Hello friends, I'm back today with a sample I created for both the Artistic Outpost April blog hop and for Frilly and Funkie's Upcycle for Earth Day challenge.  Our theme challenge for Artistic Outpost's blog hop is Flowers or Women.  I have used one of my favorite Artistic Outpost women from the Keeper set.  In fact I think this might be the first AO stamp set I ever acquired.  I just love the retro, sort of 1950's feel of this woman.  And this whole stamp set has such a fabulous summer feel to it.  

Before I tell you about my piece, here is the Artistic Outpost hop line up. 

Gerrie * Lisa * Suzanne * Tracy *Alison * Terry *Kate

I hope you will stop by all their blogs to see what they've done with women and flowers and lots of fabulous Artistic Outpost stamps!

I started with a jumbo manilla tag and inked up the grass stamp from this plate with Picket Fence Distress Stain, stamping across the bottom and up the right side.  I also stamped the summer house in Picket Fence, but it doesn't show much.  After drying with my heat tool, I sponged Mowed Grass DI along the bottom and the right side.  Next I embossed the top section of the tag with the Springtime Borders and Backgrounds texture fade.  I also used that texture fade to emboss my acrylic butterflies and flower.  The middle area was sponged with Peacock Feathers and the top with Squeezed Lemonade DIs.  For the focal panel, I brushed Multi Medium Matte onto a piece of white chipboard and glued down the white burlap.  Once dry, I cut it with the Baroque die and sponged the edges with Vintage Photo.  The woman was stamped with Jet Black archival ink, trimmed out and colored with distress ink.  All the butterflies, flower and leaves were cut from waste acrylic packaging, which is my up cycle for the Upcycle for Earth Day theme for Frilly and Funkie this fortnight.  They were painted with Vintaj Weathered Copper and Retro Highway patina paint kits.

And that's a wrap for this week.  I hope you will stop by Frilly and Funkie too to see the upcycled projects.

These products used to make this tag are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Tim Holtz Sixxiz Texture Fades - Springtime Background and Borders	White Jute Mesh (Burlap)	Mini Baroque Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shapers by Tim Holtz	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo
Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Die - Mini Butterflies	Ranger Vintaj Patina Kit - Weathered Copper	Ranger Vintaj Patina Kit - Retro Highway	Claudine Hellmuth Multi Medium Matte