a little bit of madness..in our street

hey there,
well here is my offering today, made with some fab new stamps from The Artistic Stamper and yes it is a tag!!! so here she is :

I wanted to have a play with these great stamps, love the quote and for those of you who are as old as me, it may conjure up the madness song?!! or maybe I am alone in that!?

So I started by making my favourite backgrounds at the mo using distress stains and wrinkle free technique, I just love the depth and texture this can build up.
I then stamped the house stamps , and cut some to add to length of first row and to have some to tuck behind...are you with me?
I coloured the houses using fab distress markers and also water colouring with the markers, when dry i added glossy accents to the doors.
The sentiment was stamped in black archival and a background made using distress inks and water.I added some ideaology and some floral trim and edged the tag with DI.The hearts for chimney smoke are from stash and the vintage ribbon has been dyed usng stains.

hope that all made sense, it does in my head...

I am entering this for the following competitions:
spring fashion colours @ http://rogueredheaddesigns.blogspot.co.uk/p/our-current-challenge.html
something new (my stamps)@ http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.co.uk/
anything goes @ http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/
distressing @ http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.co.uk/

have a fab, fun and inky day!
hugs trace x