Morning Coffee

While waiting for a friend to arrive

I decided to go into my craft room

for some cleaning up........

but then I noticed an unfinished tag 

and some stamps and just could not resist myself!

So after an hour or say playing instead of cleaning,

this is the finished tag!

I had that tag lying on my table distressed with coffee

stains. So with Tim's star stencil and some red distress ink

I added some sparks to the background.

On the top of the tag I made this embellishment from shrink plastic.

It is a stamp from my stash, stamped with black ink on the shrink plastic

and cut out with a circle die. Made the hole before shrinking!

The sentiment is a stamp from the Club Scrap Mocha Java um stamps.

Stamped on white paper,distressed with tie die ink and cut.

Glued to the background and with a black marker added 

the boxes around the words.

The bird is from the wonderful stamp set

Crazy Birds by Tim Holtz.

I stamped it twice. First on the tag to have the 

little feet there and then on white paper

for coloring. I also used the Dot Fade stencel by Tim

on the bird to give it a little extra.

I colored the bird with distress markers,not direct to the paper,

but used the marker on my craft sheed, added a few drops

of water and used a pencil to color.

After cutting out the burd, I placed it with foam  tape

on the stamped bird on the tag.

The tree branch is a sizzix die from Tim and the leaves

are a small hand punch.

This coffee die is an old QuicKutz die called

coffee and tie and you can use it with the big shot too!

I decorated the cup with some Club Scrap stamps.

Now I want to enter this tag for these challenges:

Challenge up your Life: Monochrome

Sweet Stampin': Bingo Board: Distress- Brown - Trees

Allsorts: Use a stamp
Fantasy Stampers: Favourite color:coffee color!

Thank you for visiting my blog!

Have a creative day!