The Golden Question Mark

Hello Everybody!

I am loving the tag challenges at Dragons Dream Tag It On.  This time the challenge #166 is for the letter Q (a word starting with Q) and the color gold.  You have to incorporate these two items onto your tag.  Now let me tell you-I love an alphabet challenge.  I don't know why.  I don't know if it's my love of Scrabble surfacing but I really do love letters! :)

I chose Question Mark.  This is my ode to the Question Mark.  :)  And if Dr. Evil from Austin Powers enters your head-well that makes two of us.  LOL!

The background of this tag is made with stickers.  Mostly, DCWV because I have a couple of letter sticker packs from them.  Most of them raise a little bit too.  Then I covered this with about 3 coats of gesso.  I found gesso works better if you totally let it dry between coats.  LOL  Live and learn.  When I had this tag floating in my cerebral fog I just want to make it.  Gesso makes you slow down a bit.  ;)

Something I hadn't thought about until midway through is that I needed to use a stamp.  Normally, I incorporate stamps and don't have to think about it...but this time was different.  

So I found this butterfly.  I think it's autumn leaves but this butterfly has been around forever.  I stamped it on acetate.  I creased it to give it dimension and adhered him with folded over red-line tape.

Here is a close-up.  I used Distress Paints seedless preserves, picked raspberry, and broken china and used a water brush to try to make them blend.  After that dried (and I let it dry) I used black soot distress ink around the edges.  I also hit the raised ?s with it.  The golden ? is from a set of Tim Holtz punctuation grunge board.  I had to use gold glitter!  I used pop dots to adhere it to the tag.

In my ribbon scraps I found this purple toule.  Perfect!  

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends....what's your golden question?  :)