The Famous Five

Yesterday I joined another Craftanoon event

and while most who come along are busy scrapbooking,

I was catching up on this week's various challenges.

I had a lovely relaxing day and hope to be able to go along to the next one

scheduled for mid September.

This week's theme at Stampotique is

#156 "Book Inspiration"

As soon as I read what the theme was, I knew what I wanted to do.

Any guesses?

"The Famous Five" by Enid Blyton

This is a series of books that I really loved when I was a child although I think from memory I actually only owned one and was able to borrow the rest from one of my friends.

When my children were little, I would buy one book every two weeks and we all enjoyed them - me included - until we had the whole series!

Recently the books were released as a box set which I purchased and

gave to my BFF for her birthday - a surprise she certainly wasn't expecting!

(this came about from a conversation we had had earlier in the year)

Anyhow, back to the challenge.

I decided "Line Up" and "Kitty" would fit my book title perfectly

so I stamped them directly onto the tag and coloured them with watercolour pencils.

I then tried out a technique that was on youtube this week

(I can't remember who did it, though I think Tim Holtz linked it on FB)

where you cover the image with tissue or washi tape, 

then colour it with Distress Inks and stencils etc until you are happy with the result,

then carefully peel off the tissue tape to reveal how it looks above.

Craftanoon always has a shop set up and I found these paperclip arrows 

and the teeny tiny letters which were just right for naming each of the characters from the books.

I finished off the tag with 'measuring tape' washi tape Nos. 1 -5 to go along with 

the book title as well.

This is my entry to this week's theme at Stampotique Designers Challenge.

Thanks for looking and hope you like my interpretation!

Happy Crafting!