Friday, July 1, 2011

Recognizing Our She-roes and Heroes + a Freebie!

I wanted to make a patriotic tag in honor of the upcoming Independence Day holiday and realized I'd never used a fantastic set from Artistic Outpost called She-roes. I love that they created rubber stamps to honor all the women who have served or are serving in the military; I can't think of any other stamp company who has done that! If you are interested in these stamps, the new London collections, or any other stamps from Artistic Outpost, you can use my code: stamptramp to get 10% off your order.

My background was created by swiping a Snow Cap Dabber over a tag and then inking it with Faded Jeans Distress Stain, then wiping the ink off the painted areas. The rosette was made with the Sizzix Paper Rosette die. I wanted a smaller rosette, but I don't have the Mini-Rosettes die yet, so I cut down the regular die and placed a strip of Idea-ology Tissue Tape along the cut edge to keep it together. Worked great! I backed it with some tinsel I bought on clearance after Christmas - you never know when it will come in handy. :-) The number four is an Idea-ology Numeral that's been colored with Denim Alcohol Ink. My 'She-ro' was stamped with Jet Black Archival ink and colored using Distress ink and a water pen. Finally, I stamped the sentiment on an Idea-ology Journaling Ticket and attached with with my Tiny Attacher.

When I was creating my tag, I felt like it needed some kind of text or music. Luckily, I found the perfect piece of music in an old children's hymnal. Please feel free to download it and use it in your work!

18 comments:

  1. Beautiful tag! Very patrotic and vintagey. Thanks so much for the music!

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  2. How awesome! and it's the first time I've seen She-roes mentioned specifically! Bravo! What a beautiful tribute!

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  3. Fabulous tag and a fabulous image too. Love the background and the added piece of music. Tracy x

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  4. I'm glad you finally broke these out. I swear I'm so thankful for all of our military. I couldn't do what they do!

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  5. Terrific tag Shelly it has great impact. Enjoy the weekend. Annette x

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  6. Fantastic tag, love the paper rosette.

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  7. Shelly -
    I love the tag! And thanks for the music sheet download.

    Thanks, also, for the tip on creating a smaller rosette. I don't have the mini yet either and was in the midst of trying to downsize a larger one. Your tip worked PERFECTLY!

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  8. What a beautiful tag! I love it! Thanks for remembering not all the men but the women who have served or presently serving.

    God Bless!

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  9. Oops my post should read "not ONLY the men but the women".

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  10. Wow, Shelly, this tag is really fantastic. I just love how you found the music sheet to match (thanks so much for sharing it). Great rosette - terrific touch with the metal number! Love the Artistic Outpost stamps. I just got a couple new sets and can't wait to use them.

    Happy 4h!

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  11. Salute! Fabulous tag, Shelly! Hope your weekend is a good one.

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  12. fabulous tag!!!!
    so many at "home" did so much to help also..their way of "marching" with their heroes!!!
    have a happy holiday!!

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  13. superbe realisation

    bravo
    md

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  14. Thank you so very much for the music sheet. Your tage is fantastic!

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  15. Loving your creations. They are fabulous.

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