Sponsor Spotlight 2 with Crafty Individuals

Hi everyone and welcome. This is Astrid sharing our second sponsor spotlight from our marvelous sponsors this month, Crafty Individuals 
The wonderful stamp I had to work with was CI 289, this is what it looks like:

The moment I saw it I thought "Country Kitchen". I have a lovely Dutch friend, living close by, she regularly invites me for a coffee in her lovely country style kitchen, so decided to make a little gift set for her.

The set comprises out of a little memo board, a little tag holder and a thank you tag.

Let's start with the memo board:

I took a little wooden board, available from Calico Crafts and gave it 3 coats of Decoart Chalky Finish Paint in Carbon, sanding lightly in between coats. After it was completely dry I also sanded around all the edges for a bit of an aged effect.

Next I stamped my image on smooth card stock in Black Archival, cut it out and then coloured it with a mix of Distress Markers and water-colour pencils. I then fussy-cut some sun flowers from the Graphics 45 French Country collection and arranged them around my stamped image.

To balance the design out, I added some other elements from the same paper collection around the bottom of my board. The word memos came from some little letter stickers I had in my stash. I also added a bit of Vintage Photo Distress Stickles to the centre of each of the sun flowers.

For the tag holder I took a #10 manila tag and scored it from the bottom at 2.25 and 4.5". I punched out a circle at the bottom to make it easier to get the little tag out.

I coloured it with Antique Linen Scattered Straw and Vintage Photo Distress Inks and also added some stenciling and another strip from the papers.
I made a topper for the holder like this:

I die cut a circle with a Spellbinders Nestabilities die, stamped my stamp again and then cut out and coloured just the rooster and the hen. The rooster for the topper and the hen for the tag. I coloured them with the same colours.

Here is the little tag and below you can see the folder after I glued it together and added the topper.

Below you can see the holder from the inside. It closes with a little magnet.

And here finally is the back of the little tag:

For the backing of the topper I simply cut another circle from the papers and then shaped it a bit with a Tim Holtz on the edge die, but of course you could do this in any way you like.

Well, hope you like my little gift set, I love making little craft projects like this every now and so often and this stamp was just perfect for it.

Thank you for visiting and don't forget to come back on the 22nd to meet our latest Top Talent! Also on the 25th Claudia will be sharing another Crafty Individuals project and you won't want to miss that!!

Stay inky!