Elisabeth Bell's Little Friends Digi Bells' Blog Hop

To celebrate the newest addition to Elisabeth Bell's Digital Gallery (here), the Digi Bells Design Team is hosting a blog hop.

How can you win your own Little Friends digi image? You'll have to hop through and leave comments on EACH blog. [You can find the full list of 14 other blogs at the Digi Bells Design Team blog (here).] Lynda will pick 2 blogs at random and the winners will be picked from those comments. The hoppers will have until Friday, Apr. 26, 2013 at 9 AM to leave comments. The winners will be posted at the Digi Bells' blog on Saturday, Apr. 27, 2013.

Reminder: Buying then sharing digital images is theft. Sharing digital images takes income away from the artist.


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I've had alot of fun working on this tag with distressed and inked edges.

I've used newly released Little Friends digital stamp by Elisabeth Bell on a standing tag.  I printed the image onto Bazzill Smooth white cardstock then die cut it using a Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations Tag and Bookplates Bigz L die.  Here's a closer view of my Copic-filled image and my attempts at showing the likeness of a gold finch, New Jersey's state bird.



I printed an enlarged version of my colored bird onto regular copy paper and used Ranger's glossy accents to adhere it to a Tim Holtz idea-ology teardrop facet.  This sweet embellishment hangs from a jump ring with a Tim Holtz idea-ology Bauble at the loop of a Tim Holtz idea-ology Trinket Pin through a May Arts spring flower printed ribbon tied through my tag's top.

 

I placed a mask over my colored image then sporadically airbrushed splotches of colors used in my image for a colorful background.  When dry, I began to stamp grass, tiny flowers and hearts from a Hero Arts Clear Design: Elephants set around branches from an Inkadinkado Bird Assortment set.

 

Here's a view of the front of my tag showing how I've used Little Friends.  A stamped sentiment also from the Inkadinkado Bird Assortment set is popped up above my image.  Close To My Heart Bitty Sparkles are scattered throughout the branches for special bling.  A strip of Michael's blue rhinestones lies across the base of my tag.

 

I adhered my tag to another die cut tag to cover the Copic bleed and messy ink.  The back of the tag includes a Tim Holtz Alterations Small Easel die cut to allow my tag to stand for display.

 

 

Remember to leave your comment below then move along to your next stop at the wonderfully-talented Linda's blog (here). For reference, you can find the full list of the blogs to hop at the Digi Bells Design Team blog (here).


I'm entering this tag into the following challenges:
Totally Gorjuss "Spring Shades" (here)
Sweet Stampin' "Pastels" (here)
Digital Tuesday "Springtime" (here)
Crafty Creations "No Patterned Paper" (here)
Creative Inspirations "Anything but a Card" (here)
Divas by Design "Butterflies and Birds" (here)
PaperCrafting Journey "Use a Sentiment" (here)



Copics used:
skin - E000, E01, E11, E93, BV00
hair - E31, E35, E47
pants - B91, B93, B95, B97
goldfinch - T0, T6, T9, Y2, Y6, Y8 (enamel accents black over eye)
top - RV91, RV93, RV95, RV95
grounding shadow - W3, W1, W00, 0
airbrushed background - RV93, Y8, B95, E11


On 4-19-13 Elisabeth Bell wrote: "OOOHHMIGOODNESS... Rose, your creation is EXQUISITE"

As always, I'm so glad that you stopped by to visit!

~ Rose