Love Life Challenge Thee Tag

Well me and Trace Metcalf from inkypinkycraft have been on the phone again finding out what stash we both have and coming up with an 'I Challenge Thee to make something' list. This wonderful idea was started off by Hels Sheridan and Ellen Vargo with their 'I challenge thee' makes. Hel's last one is HERE and Ellen's is HERE.

So here is the list that me and Trace came up with this time:

Trace suggested using my free digi stamp - Love Machine Heart

A Tag

Some Foil or sheet metal

Alcohol ink

Paint

Gesso

Distress ink

Tim Holtz stamps

Embossing powder or folder

Mica powder

And some lettering

Plus 1 secret ingredient

Here's what Trace has done

And here's what I came up with........

Have you spotted my secret ingredient?.......yes it's wax!

I dripped wax down the tag and brushed it with Perfect Pearls, I just love this effect. 

This tag started life being vivid blue (done with alcohol inks) with fancy script and flourishes. And in true Donna Downey style I changed how it looked by scraping red and white acrylic paint with a pallet knife down the middle to make it look grungy

I cut the whole out of the heart where the cogs are and wrapped it kitchen foil. I put sequin waste over the heart and ran it through my Big Shot. Now I had my metallic embossed heart..fab. 

I snipped into the foil where the hole was in the card and peeled back the layers to make it look like it had been ripped open. I dripped a few drops of red, copper, gold and black alcohol inks on the embossed metal. I printed off the heart again and coloured in the cogs and stuck it beneath the metal heart. I stuck them both onto the corrugated card and cut out the heart shape.

I heat embossed the TH wings behind the heart.

I've used distress paint on the grunge board letters and edged it with red paint. I love that crackled Blue China paint! Then I dripped wax down the whole tag and brushed it with gold Perfect Pearls mica powder. 

I can't wait to see what Trace has come up with.

We've already started cooking up the next one, so far we've come up with art parts and Idea-ology.

Ooooooo mind is already running a muck?

Free Love Machine digi stamp

I'm so chuffed to have reached 100 followers that I wanted to thank you by making a freebee digi stamp to give away. I asked Trace from InkyPinkyCraft what stamp she would like to see and she suggested a grungy heart, I figured Trace loves cogs then why not make cogs inside a heart and my Son said with his mega deep voice call it a Love Machine and the rest is as they say history.

I wanted to show you my take on the stamp, so I made this tag. As you can see I'm obviously using my time off work being very productive, imagine what I'd be doing if I won the lottery at home all day! I wish................

I used:-

A white tag

That Special Touch cog mask to emboss the tag

rub n buff silver, purple & green.

Black soot DI

TH cog & clock

Crown charm

spiral paper clips (my fav thing at the moment)

Stampendous Frantage embossing powder & mica flakes

I coloured the heart with Promarkers

Coated the red area with Rangers Rock Candy.

I'm entering this tag into Try it on a Tuesday - Anything goes challenge, I'm in early this time!

Now to give you my digi stamp & sentiment.....I have made it a PNG rather than a JPEG so you can have a transparent background. 

I would like to ask if you use this digi stamp please will you reference it to Michelle Webb and I'd really appreciate a link back to this blog, thanks a million xx. Right click the image and save to your computer.

I would really love to see what you make as well, so let me know and I will pop over and have a look.

Thank you for following me xx

Love Machine heart & sentiment - designed by Michelle Webb

Enjoy xxx