Wednesday 9 February 2011

Another Charm Piece

When I was making the piece for Gingersnaps Charms challenge, I made this one as well. I wanted to try out using tissue tape to cover one of these little Crafty Individuals containers. I love the designs of tissue tape and the idea behind it, and the range of uses, but I get frustrated with it as it sticks when you don't want it to, but not when you do. It was fairly quick though, to cover the whole thing, and I then blended on a little Fired Brick as you need a strong colour on tissue tape as it comes out quite muted, and then sealed all the edges with watered down PVA.




I decorated the sections as before, adding some little children and love themed charms. The butterfly was made by stamping a butterfly onto book text twice then adhering to a piece of laminate left from laminating a stamp image sheet. When it was dry I cut them both out and layered them together. I filled each of the sections with glossy accents and left to dry overnight.
The back, showing the tissue tape more clearly

12 comments:

  1. Fab piece! Awesome look!

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  2. Gorgeous, so sweet and love the colours and how you did the charm. you could also enter this into my dezinaworld spot prize challenge (side bar ) if you do it quickly as it ends tomorrow.
    http://dezinaworld.blogspot.com/

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  3. Very nice. I love tissue tape.

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  4. Beautiful little hanging. Love the colours you have chosen to use. See you soon. xx

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  5. Love your card (Pink is my fav!)....love the butterfly accent.

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  6. This is amazing! Love the pink color and your charms are perfect for each little window! Have a great day!

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  7. This is gorgeous Lucy. Really love the vintage style and colours. I love tissue tape too but not the price!
    Fliss x

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  8. Sweet idea - particularly like the hand charm with the little boy stamp!

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  9. What fun, clever idea to cover with the tape!

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  10. Thanks for adding it to the challenge Lucy, the winner will be announced today along with a new weeks challenge
    hugs June

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  11. This is a gorgeous piece Lucy! xx

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