kard krazy tag tuesday!

i've been wanting to participate in a kard krazy tag tuesday for a long time (http://kardkrazy.blogspot.com/). this week's challenge is to use a postage stamp. i've also been wanting to play around with postage stamps. so this was the perfect combination to get me going.

i looked at the many postage stamps i've got stashed. i really wanted to use one of my stamps from Mali. we have a sponsored child there so i have quite a number of lovely ones from there. there is a wonderful stamp of an african girl that i have so i was sure i'd make something work with that stamp. i tried every which way but could not get the right combination going. the nice thing is that i now have some great impressions of the stamp i can use for some other project. but not for this one. after i couldn't make it work stamping her and then pasting her on the tag i tried stamping her on the tag. that didn't work either. and then i'd wasted a tag. not so fast. i took some cool brown ink and just dragged it over the tag, covered her up (bye sweet girl) and that is the base for this tag.

the "bundle" came from a bunch of goodies from alphastamps. hopefully it is ok that it goes off the tag a bit. the mail stamp from mali you can see -- featuring a butterfly of all things, my favorite. the little flower at the left corner is punched from the same sheet of washed colors paper that i used for the face stamp in that patchwork card i shared the other day. finally it seemed like a button was appropriate. so just four elements altogether. not bad.

i would have tied a ribbon on but i am not good at tying ribbon and couldn't make that work either. i photographed this one rather than scanning which i usually do. i actually leaned the tag on a kleenex box! it was such a great color match though!

enjoy; love to all.