Oriental Tag {with Eclectica³ Ellen Vargo and Lynne Perella Stamps by Sam Butler }

Good evening all, Sam here and so pleased to have been asked to make a project for the PA blog. I started crafting about 10 years ago and I fell into it by pure accident. Someone sent me a handmade Christmas card and I was taken by it and thought ‘I can do that’ and the rest as they say is history.

I’ve made a simple tag using a few techniques in the hope that you will give it or elements of it a try. Here is the finished tag.

I started off by brayering caramel fresco paint onto the large #12 sized tag, added the new autumn fire colour and finally a splash of blood orange. The background was stamped all over in black archival using the sketchy rectangle from the EEV02 stamp plate. I then went back in with my white Posca pen and added more hi-lights.

EEV 02

I die cut the pediments in the prima elemental resist canvas, scribbled on them with the red portfolio pastel, used a baby wipe to blend the colour and then went back in with a clean piece and swiped over the resist to reveal the white.

I stamped some Lynne Perrella oriental images from LP021 & LP023 in black and blaze red stazon onto plain white card and mounted them onto the size #8 corrugated tag coloured in blood orange fresco paint. Overlaying the image stamped on the butterfly shape over the main image.

LPC 021

LPC 023

To finish I added a piece of brayered and stamped crunchy wax paper and the oriental symbol from the Ink and the Dog Asian plate #4.

I&D Asian 4

I hope you enjoyed seeing my process, for more photos, check out my blog 

Thanks for looking. Sam

A huge thank you to Sam from all at PaperArtsy HQ, so lovely to have another of our #PATwits joining us on the blog. The colours on this tag are stunning, can't go wrong with black and red. The butterfly shape over the face is a perfect touch, simple but really elegant. Ellen's stamps look great in the background, showing just how much texture a simple stamp can bring to a project. 

If you would like to join in our weekly challenge with any of this week's guests who have blogged since Sunday night, then join in to link up your creativity HERE you will go in the draw to win PA stamps of your choice! You need to link your entry by17:00 (London time) Sunday 27th April 2014