Be strong and courageous

  Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week the challenge is to add a tag to your project.

And here is the card I created:

Oh, my word!  This was the card that just did NOT want to be!  I tried so many things to make it work; I even had to switch sketches and that has never happened to me!  I needed a sympathy card and I was determined to make it work, but I almost had to let that dream go!  But, eventually, I got it to turn out passably . . . Here's how the end result came about.  I started by die cutting the tag and stamping the sentiment.  It looked a little plain, so I stamped a sunflower image in a light gray ink and colored it with colored pencils to get a soft look.  I die cut a second tag out of a light gray card stock and tied them together with some black and white gingham ribbon and a bit of twine.  I made the base out of kraft cardstock, and cut a smaller piece, inked up the edges with a caramel ink, embossed it with a corrugated embossing folder and matted it with a very thin black mat.  Added some black enamel dots for a little something extra and it was done . . . FINALLY!!

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this challenge.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Be Strong . . ." and "Sunflower"

Dies: PaperTrey Ink "Tag Sale #9"

SU! Corrugated embossing folder

Challenges:

Aud Sentiments #280--anything goes

Krafty Chicks #570--anything goes

Cardz TV #146--anything goes

Sketch Saturday #671--any past sketch (I chose #535)

Sweet Stampin'--gingham, tartan & plaid (I used gingham ribbon)

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #163--anything goes

Crafts Galore #90--anything goes

Dare 2B Artzy--anything goes

Crafting Happiness #107--anything goes