CAS Tag, Vase and Flower, Butterfly

Have you been playing along with the current challenge at 'Tag You're It'?

 There's less than a week to go but that's still plenty of time to get those creative juices flowing! 

For those of you who may not have had a chance to stop by at Tag You're It lately...  You may not know that we now have a 'Featured Artist' for each new challenge, bringing us their own design to work with and giving us and you even more inspiration to play along with.  

Yay!!!
So if you have the time, why not give it a go?

My tag for this challenge is probably the most CAS thing I have ever made...  and boy did I struggle leaving all that white space.
I have to confess I tried many, many ways to incorporate some colour into the background...  but not one of them looked right.  And yes, I did consider Embossing Folders...  but then I would have lost the definition of the 'flight path' stitched detail.   

So in the end I resigned myself to the fact that, in this instance, lots of white space was the way to go...   but to make myself feel better I did spray the whole background with glitter varnish before adding the vase, flower and butterfly.  (And yes, it really did make me feel better)!

Here's my tag...

...  and here's a close up so you can hopefully see the glitter varnish...

  

I'm always trying to find ways to sneak in a little dimension with my CAS projects.

How did I achieve that on this design?

Well, firstly I chose a die that I could emboss and add colour to. Then I cut a bottom flower head in red and the top overlapping in a deep pink colour.   

Then I chose a stitched detail that adds to the scene without adding any colour whatsoever...  and added a butterfly that's glued only at the centre - so I can raise the wings a little. 

Cutting the vase from vellum and then inking around the edges meant that any glue that would normally show through was now hidden - I just spot glued behind the inked edges only.

Even my glitter varnish base gives added texture - how's that for a happy coincidence?

I will never be a one layer girl and I'm ok with that.  It's simply not in my skill set.

Why worry about what I cannot change?  We can't all be good at everything, after all!

The Featured Artist for this challenge is a lady by the name of Amy Tsuruta.

Here's her tag on a card...

It's easy to see where I got my inspiration from this time, isn't it?!

Supplies Used:

Dies:

Sizzix Thinlits 'Flower Vases'

Marianne Designs (Creatables) 'Tiny's Tulip'

Memory Box 'Peaceful Butterfly Wings'

Memory Box/Open Studio 'Busy As A Bee'

Ink:

Tim Holtz Distress 'Walnut Stain'

Tim Holtz Distress 'Forest Moss'

ColorBox Pigment Ink 'Frost White'

Other:

Crafter's Companion 'Spray and Sparkle'  (Pearl Diamond)

Vellum

Ribbon

Challenges I'm Entering...

Simon Says/Wednesday 
Anything Goes

Pixies Crafty Snippets Challenge

(Made entirely from Snippets)

Shopping Our Stash

Challenge #262   'A Stitch In Time'

Allsorts Challenge

Week #373   'Anything But A Card'

Stamping Smiles Designs

Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge #14

(Add Dimensional, Intricate Dies, Ribbon)

CAS-ual Fridays

Challenge #153   'Gift tags'

Cardz 4 Galz
Challenge #27   'No Patterned Paper'

Wishing you the happiest of weekends...

Donna. x