Alphatag Swap - A

This year I am taking part in a tag swap between members of the Chocolate Baroque Guild. There are almost 30 of us taking part. The idea is that we produce a tag for each letter of the alphabet using mainly Chocolate Baroque stamps or stamps and other products sold by them. My theme for A was architecture.

Like a lot of us, I struggled to get a good picture at this murky time of year, so I have posted a couple of pics here. One darker which I think shows the detail a little better.

I started by stamping the arch from the Echoes of Italy stamp set  and then sponging a brick effect onto my tag around the arch using Versamagic chalk inks. I then embossed the gate onto some Crafty Individuals Italian themed paper and cut it out and decoupaged it onto the main image. I added shading onto the bricks of the arch with Coloursoft pencils. I cut out the little road name from the same Italian themed CI paper and added a thin embossed border around it to add definition. I added the words from a Beeswax stamp.  That isn't from CB, but it was so perfect I couldn't resist! I finished by punching lots of little leaves from the same paper pad and gently inked the edges with DIs and added them like they were trailing down the wall. My final touch was a piece of sari waste ribbon.

I am not sure who got my tag, but I hoped they liked it as much as the one I received from Mickey which was also an architecture themed tag using the antiquities plate from CB.

Thank goodness it is Friday

Elaine