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Saturday 8 August 2015

Unity tag.

I have labelled another of my stamp files, getting there slowly. This time it is Unity Stamps, and I used the caravan Itty Bitty stamp with a house from the Pixie Lane set to stamp the front of my tag. I coloured the images with Promarkers. The tag is die cut with a Sizzix Tim Holtz designed tag Bigz die.

The back of my tag is stamped with a snowpeep and an owl, I love that owl - looks like my Dad with those glasses. I coloured them with Prismacolor pencils.
Now before I did this I microwaved around 150 Prismacolor pencils, a tip someone pointed me towards when I was having a rant about the constantly breaking pencils, so much so that some were down to stumps before being used and most of them had not been sharpened because I was disheartened. Well I had tried the microwave method on a couple and it seemed to work, so I thought I would go for it and do all of them. This had mixed results, most were fine I managed to sharpen them afterwards and I even sorted them into shades of a colour. Around 40 of them were still breaking, and my metallic set suffered terribly both blistering on the outside and the wood developing pencil length cracks - oh dear. The 40 I redid, half of them worked, the remainder I microwaved for a third and forth longer time, I think they mostly gave in.

Oh and I just upgraded to Windows 10, it is free to do, was really easy and looks good. At first I thought it was a scam, but I found out it is genuine! 

I have entered the following challenges:
Passion for Promarkers - Summer lovin (Tues)
Papertake Weekly - anything goes (Tues)
Crafting by Design - windows (Wed)
I love Promarkers - in the garden (Wed)
Inspiration Destination - #45 anything goes (Wed)
Addicted to stamps - #156 anything goes (Wed)
Allsorts - inspired by Summer, what is more summery than a caravan? (Sat)
Die Cut Divas- favourite holiday - (Aug)

6 comments:

  1. Gorgeous tag Cazzy. However our challenge this week is looking for wedding, anniversary, engagement and other 'love' type creations. Hugs, Denise, Passion for Promarkers challenge x x

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  2. Two pretty tags, Cazzy and great way to organise your stamps so you know what you have! Thanks for sharing, Lisa x

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  3. What a wonderful tag. I love it. Sorry about your pencils breaking.

    So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas.

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  4. The tags are really adorable!! Love the images and your fun coloring too!! :) Thanks for sharing your creation with us at Addicted to Stamps & More! Hugs & Smiles - *Vicki*-DT member

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  5. Thanks for joining my theme at allsorts tracy x

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  6. Great tag! Cute images, both front and back. I enjoyed seeing your creation over at Die Cut Divas!

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