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14 September 2012

Good luck Amy!

The really rather lovely Amy, our friend and baby sitter extraordinaire, has done rather too well in her A levels and is off to Uni today. We are so excited for her and wanted to send her off with a little something. Uni is now so expensive that we know she'll struggle to have a little luxury so we're sending her off with a little of her favourite chocolate and some money to buy her first drink in the Students Union (can you tell that David and I have been reminiscing about our first days at Uni?!) 
The tag is die cut from glassine paper and crumpled up. Then I added a little white paint followed by a swoosh of Brushed Pewter Distress Stain over that to give a shimmer. Then I added Vintage Photo and Broken China Distress Inks and a little script stamp in Sepia Archival Ink. Then I cut out the letters from Kraft Resist paper and treated them as I did with the tag. I then added them to the tag, doodled around them and the tag itself and added a little paper tag with a ruler design. 
I crumpled another sheet of glassine paper and die cut a bag to house the tag, chocolate and beer money! So, much love to Amy as you start this new adventure - we hope you have as much fun as we did!
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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lovely idea & the tag looks great. Good luck to Amy.

Sara said...

It's lovely Gabrielle thank you for sending her off with some special love and her favourite chocolate xxx

Helen said...

Lovely gift for Amy - hope she enjoys Uni even with the hard work!

victoria h said...

Gr8 tag- those metallic distress stains look fab. A lovely present (enjoy fresher's week Amy).

Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...

Love your tag, the lettering is fabulous. Good luck to Amy. Tracy x

Misty's said...

Hi Gabrielle
What a super present you made. It looks FANTASTIC! And it comes with chocolate what more one could ask for. She is gonna love it! Good luck to her at UNI.
Michaela xx

Redanne said...

Off to Uni, a gorgeous personal tag, choccies and some spending money - I bet Amy was delighted. Wishing Amy all the very best! Crafty hugs, Anne x

Alison said...

A lovely gift, great tag Gabrielle! Good luck Amy! xx

Words and Pictures said...

What a lovely send-off gift... the tag is fabulous, the lettering looks just great. Lovely ideas and techniques to play with - thank you for sharing the details, and all the best to Amy!
Alison x

Monique's art said...

Very beautiful it is a lovely gift. She will love it