Love Letter

Greetings friends!  Did you think I had abandoned you?  You probably thought I got on my new bike, started riding and rode off into the sunset.  But no, I hurt my back and was laid up for a few days and then we left on a 5-day vacation.  I got back late Monday and managed to get a tag made for Trace's From the Heart challenge that kicks off today over at Frilly and Funkie.  Your challenge is to create a vintage project that has hearts as the focal image; you could make a dimensional piece, a card, ATC or tag, as long as hearts are the main focus.

Since we are heading toward Halloween, I decided to make my piece a bit gothic.  I started by stamping the Distress Damask stamps with embossing ink and clear embossed them.  Using jet black archival ink, I stamped a script stamp randomly on the tag and then sponged the entire tag with Black Soot DI.

 I ended up sponging black ink on my craft sheet too so I misted the craft sheet with Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold mist and then blotted my tag into it numerous times.

Love the gold sheen from the Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls mist.  The wonderful sentiment is from the Random Quotes set.  

My hearts were cut with several Movers and Shapers dies from gray chipboard.  I stained it with Gathered Twigs and then cut matching pieces Ranger Adhesive Punch Sheet, a new double sided tape  that just came out a couple of weeks ago from Ranger.  I affixed the double sided tape onto the heart die cuts and then rubbed a new Ranger Foil Transfer Sheet, one from the Vintage pack.  (NOTE:  the next time I use the adhesive punch sheets, I am going to adhere it to the base before die cutting, live and learn :)  Loving words from the Chit Chat sticker pack was included as well as several black rhinestones and some gumdrop style embellishments that I painted black.  

The following products were used to make the above tag and area available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique,where most name brand products including Tim Holtz/Ranger and Wendy Vecchi products are always 20% below MSRP.

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	$17.95 Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Distressed Damask	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad	Ranger Embossing Powder - Clear
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black
Stampers Anonymous Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stamps - Live and Make Art	Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Heirloom Gold	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Chitchat Stickers	Gumdrops - 10 Piece White Acrylic Embellishments	Ranger Vintaj Patina Kit - Retro Highway
Rayon Seam Binding	$17.95 Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Random Quotes	Ranger Shiny Foil Transfer Sheets - Brights	Ranger ADHESIVE PUNCH SHEET 4" X 6"	Mini Hearts Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Movers & Shaperss
Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shaperss - Mini Love Struck