Wednesday 14 September 2011

How Long Has It Been...

...since you used any eyelets?     For me, it's been forever LOL, so it was great to have a play this morning using some rather quirky shaped eyelets that I had forgotten were in my stash.    This is my entry to this month's theme over at Sarah's Inkurable Stampers challenge blog:





I started by cutting a tag shape out of purple cs, I stamped the Art Declassified image onto some white cs and stuck that to the tag, I then added the olive cs scallop edge (TH Alterations die), I was going to set the eyelets onto the orange strip of cs but thought they would look too plain, so I added bits of painted cs out of my scraps box and then set them with my crop-a-dile (which I use all the time to make holes, but I haven't used in ages to set an eyelet!!!)       The sentiment is a favourite of mine(and so true!) and it's from an ATC booklet I bought ages ago from The Stamping Queen., both the sentiment and the strip of orange cs were stuck on using foam tape for extra dimention.     I was going to leave it at that, but the purple section looked too empty, so I brought out some white acrylic paint and my favourite Darkroom Door b'ground stamp and voila! no more empty space : )  
I then added some orange and some red ribbon, as well as a white button, all from Craft Queen (because I like to rub shoulders with royalty LOL)      So now that I found my stash of eyelets, I wonder what else I can use them on?

Don't forget you still have time to join in with this fun challenge until the end of the month...

And you also have until the 18th of this month to vote for the top 6 entries to the Stampbord competition...You need to "like" Stampbord, and then go to the gallery and choose your favourite entry out of the 6 there...  Thanks for your visit, now go, create something  : )

10 comments:

Jen xo said...

love the orange with the old bw pics Vicki. your eyelets look fab too...

shirley said...

LOL! The quote cracked me up!

Fun tag and clever use of the colourful eyelets Vicky.

PS Everything arrived today and should all be back in the mail tomorrow! :)

Gwen Wruck said...

Love this Vicky, sooo colourfull

Cuchy said...

ufff ni me acuerdo cuando fue la última vez.
Muy bueno el texto. Yo creo que en mi familia también hay unas cuantas "nuts"
Genial el tag!

Jenny said...

Fabulous Vicky... the quote made me chuckle too :)) love that stamp and the eyelets look good...

Jenny x

Petrina McDonald said...

v. funky eyelets i'd say!!

laury55 said...

your tag really looks great...love the use of eyelets as well
xoxo

Mim said...

Love the purple and orange Vicky.. also got a giggle out of the quote!

Fiona said...

Love the contrast between the vintage image and the bright tag Vicky - great use of those diamond shaped eyelets too!

Lyn S said...

Great use of the eyelets Vicky! Love the splashes of colour against the B & W image too!