A Bookmark to Share

 There is a new theme this month for the Tag-along and ATC challenge, set by Brenda who would like to see **Blooms - Butterflies - Birds** with a choice of either one, two or all three as the fancy takes you and if this doesn't suit, then there is always the *Anything Goes* option.  You can choose to make an ATC, a Tag or a Bookmark so there are many possibilities open to you with a super prize at the end of the month for a lucky winner.

I thought for a change I'd make a bookmark and as luck would have it I had some already inked and decorated strips of card to hand.  These white strips are left over when I cut into an A4 sheet of card to make my approximately 6" square cards.  I taped four of them together using low tack tape on the back before getting into a session of smooshing colour, random stamping and stencilling to form an attractive overall background effect.  Once dry the tape was removed and I'm left with four long narrow strips which are ideal for trimming into ATCs, tags or bookmarks.  For this project I used a punch to shape the top and another punch to round the bottom corners - a piece of ribbon or tassel will be added eventually.  I then selected some stamps to add the flowers at the bottom, a quotation (which includes birds) and a couple of butterflies in between.  All stamping was done using Versafine Claire Twilight and the smooshing was Distress Oxides in various colours.

Quotation - from a  magazine give away set dated 2016
Butterflies - stamps from Visible Image Wings of Change (a recent win from Snippets)
Flowers - also from the magazine stamp set dated 2016
Punches used - top a very ancient from Stampin' Up and X-cut for the bottom corners