LIM week 178 - recycle

I've had this stamp for a few months and decided she would fit with the sentiment on this gift tag from Monsoon. The tag was on the clothing in store last year to celebrate their 40th year, I saved it and this is the second one I have used on a card. Below is how the tag started out and the reverse, which I only covered the blurb as the other elements looked too nice to cover.

I paper pieced using a SU snippet, colouring some of the detailing with a duck egg promarker, then added a SU sentiment from the postage collection. SU punched hearts and a little seam binding complete the card, all mounted onto some SU cardstock.

This card is for the challenge on Less is More this week which is to use a recycled item on your card.

I'm also entering it into

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge where "anything goes"

and Allsorts - Summer girls.

Finally I'm sharing a photo of a circumzenithal arc - an upside down rainbow. It's not really a rainbow as it is do with ice and not rain - but anyhoo - someone at work took it on Wednesday evening and it is apparently very rare. Would have loved to have seen it myself.