You can take your pick of your favorite city (whether you've been there or not) and create something wonderful using one of these places as your muse.
It's all happening on the Simon Says Stamp & Show challenge blog where you can post your creation and win a fabulous prize.
Paris is one of my favorite cities in the world so this tag is an homage to the city of lights. After cutting the cardstock into a large postcard size tag, I first stamped a background using VersaMark ink and the diamond pattern from French Market. VersaMark left a watermark without using color.
With Memento's Black Tuxedo ink, I stamped Post Card across the top of the tag and heat set with a heat gun. Heat setting allowed me to dry any ink before embossing so that the powder will stick only where I want it to.
Using the Post Mark image from French Market, I stamped with VersaMark and embossed with Ranger's Stream embossing powder. It was then put between sheets of newspaper and ironed. The ironing process lets the color stay on the image but releases the shiny embossing into the newspaper. The result is amazing! You can find this blended batik technique on page 36 in The Compendium of Curiosities book 1.
Graphic 45's Curtain Call (the lady, the Eiffel Tower and the Paris stamp) and Crafty Secrets (the banner with the fleur de lis) were used to decorate the tag. The celebratory lady was colored with Copic Markers and popped up on the tag. The Crafty Secrets banner has several icons you can insert in the banner. Of course, fleur de lis was the obvious choice.
Stop by the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge blog and take a look at the wonderful projects my fellow team members have come up with this week as well as the entries. So much inspiration in one place! Enter your own creation and you will have a chance to win a $50 prize from Simon Says Stamp or possibly be one of the artists chosen as The Top Three.
Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you over at
Nancy, I love your postcard tag. It has so many elements on it! I love the crisp images of the Eiffel Tower and your very French lady. Love your background design as well. It really is a neat tag! <3 Candy
Posted by: Candy | February 20, 2012 at 04:52 AM
Lovely tag Nancy, the background batik technique is fabulous and works so well with the images. I do like that post card stamp too, another thing on my need list lol. Tracy x
Posted by: Tracy Evans | February 20, 2012 at 07:53 AM
Wow, what a great tag. Love the vibrant color. The techniques you used here are fascinating. I've never tried ironing my embossing.
Posted by: Marlena M | February 20, 2012 at 03:29 PM
Gorgeous piece, Nancy! I just love the vivid colors and the way you strung the pennants!!
*mwah*
Steph
Simon Says Stamp!
Posted by: Stephanie | February 20, 2012 at 03:51 PM
I love this tag! The color, the inking, it surely struck my eye! Thank you for the inspiration - though I'm a London-fan myself ;)
Anna
Posted by: Anna | February 21, 2012 at 06:26 AM
A fabulous flourish of colour and Parisian nostalgia - I love your tag, it's bursting with energy...the flags look brilliant.
Posted by: sarah engels-greer | February 21, 2012 at 01:51 PM