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I love playing with rubber stamps and ink, collaging with vintage images, and making mini books. I live in Maine with my husband and our cats.
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Rogue Redhead Designs

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Artist-in-Residence January 2011

Artist-in-Residence January 2011
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Green Paper Collage Club 2011

Green Paper Collage Club 2011

Mary Green's Vintage Gluebook Online Class

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All content, including text, photographs and concept design work are © Penny Bennington unless otherwise stated. Stamp images used are copyrighted by the companies credited. Designs and ideas are just for your inspiration - please do not copy them for the purpose of sale, publication, or contest submissions. Thanks!

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Monday, December 26, 2011

A Very Rogue Christmas

I don't know about you, but I'm still inspired by Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas and couldn't resist one more kind of Rogue-ified for the Rogue Redhead Designs blog. I started with a wrinkle free distress background using Antique Linen, Bundled Sage and Fired Brick distress stains and then created fragment charm Christmas ornaments by first using alcohol inks (Cranberry and Bottle) and then stamped ladies from the trio of Milliner Misses using archival ink and then blotted and buffed it off creating a resist effect. I wired them to the tag using the swirl from Relish Reading as their anchor. To finish off my tag I added a sentiment from Stampers Anonymous and die cut greenery and pearls.

Here's a close-up of the fragment charms:

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
Posted by penny4thoughts at 8:00 AM

7 much appreciated comments:

Martina2801 said...

What a gorgeous Christmas tag, dear Penny! Beautifully created.

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!

December 26, 2011 8:38 AM
Ana Márquez said...

It's very gorgeous! :-)

December 26, 2011 10:39 AM
Janine said...

Love it, the treeballs are gorgeous. Have a great week, love Janine

December 27, 2011 2:22 AM
lynne said...

Penny
Beautiful colour choices and the technique is so perfect.
Wouldn't they be beautiful as Christmas Tree decorations or scaled down, as ear-rings or pendants.
Your imagination overflows.
I cannot wait to see what you create during 2012.
Wishes
Lynne

December 30, 2011 4:25 PM
Anita Houston said...

A perfect combination!!! I love it!

December 30, 2011 6:31 PM
Deb (dcorder) said...

I love your ornaments! I just wish I could get that technique to work for me! LOVE IT! :)

January 1, 2012 2:17 PM
Shar said...

Love these ornaments! They look amazing!

January 8, 2012 9:46 PM

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