Day 17 - Karen Telfer's "24 Days of Tags" Challenge

This is my Day 17 tag.  It's a riot of colours, which I felt leant itself to the word "peace". 

I used a selection of Distress Oxide Inks (Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Black Soot and Dusty Concord) for the background colour.

I spritzed the Funky Fossil "Pine Needles" stencil with water, tapping off any surplus, then lay the wet side down on to my tag.  I mopped up any surplus water using a piece of kitchen roll.  The area where the water on the stencil touches the inks on the tag will become bleached/lighter in colour leaving the stencil cut out detail as the main focal point.  Once the stencil was lifted, I mopped up any little puddles that had gathered on the surface of the tag and then used the heat gun on a low heat to dry the tag.

I used a Stampin' Up die cut for the "peace" sentiment.  The die is part of their "Christmas Greetings" set of three dies, run through my Sizzix Big Shot.  I then adhered the die to the tag.

Lavinia Stamps "Pipin" and the "Fairy Hives" Card

 

I'm still making the last few Christmas cards, here's the last one... I hope!

I used two shades of Distress Oxide Inks to create the background colour (Tumbled Glass and Speckled Egg).

I've used Lavinia Stamps for the main image.  Starting by stamping "Pipin" the hare and the "Tree Branch" in Versafine Clair "Fallen Leaves" brown ink.

Using Versafine Clair "Rain Forest" green ink, I stamped the dangling "Fairy Hives". I used the same ink to stamp the sentiment, which is part of a stamp set called "Tiny Words, Christmas" from Simon Says Stamp.

I used the Lavinia "Snowflakes" stamp set, stamped in Memento "London Grey" ink.

I then grounded Pipin by painting some shading below the hare using Distress Oxide Ink "Weathered Wood" grey ink.  I added some touches of silver sparkle to the area and also to the middle of the snowflakes, using a silver glitter Signo Pen.  I added some white highlights to give a snowy look to the tree branches using a white Posca Pen.

Day 16 - 24 Days of Tags with Karen Telfer.

It's Day 16 of Karen Telfer's challenge called "24 Days of Tags".  Today was use "Washi Tape".  Now I have some Washi tape, but I don't like it, so much so that I have thrown away several rolls, the remainder just sit there waiting to be used.  I suspect really I should have binned them with the others, however, they came in handy for this project.

I didn't have any festive patterns of Washi Tape, so cut up some patterned paper in half inch lengths and used them for a couple of the tags.  For the tag on the right hand side, I used a Funky Fossil stencil called "Christmas Tree Background" for the pattern detail.

Snowflake Christmas Card

The weather can't seem to make up its mind today - rain or no rain, so I've opted to stay in and craft.  This morning I've made this snowflake card.

I started blending four shades of Distress Oxide Inks, starting with the lightest colour, then working my way through to the darker.  This is the order I used them in:  Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire.

I then dipped a fan shaped paint brush in water and flicked droplets across the surface then blotted with kitchen roll.  This achieved a nice speckled background. I then gave it a blast with the heat gun to fully dry.

I used a Lavinia Stamp verse called "Snow Falls" for the background text, stamping in second generation Versafine Clair "Medieval Blue", so that the text doesn't over power the image.

Using my Sizzix Big Shot die cutting machine and the Sizzix/Tim Holtz "Flurry #1" die I cut the intricate snowflake, then adhered over the prepared background.

I decided the card needed more splatters, which I created by tapping a white Posca Pen over the card.

Finally, I mounted the background on to a card blank and stamped the sentiment of "You Light Up My Christmas Tree" which is part of a stamp set by Simon Says Stamp called "Tiny Words, Christmas".

 

Day 15 - 24 Days of Tags Challenge with Karen Telfer

It's Day 15 of the 24 Days of Tags challenge with Karen Telfer.  Today it has been stencils and stamping.

I've used a selection of Lavinia Stamps and a Lavinia Stamps stencil called "Glory" to create this tag.  

I've used "Squeezed Lemonade" Distress Oxide ink for the background colour.  I've then used two shades of green "Peeled Paint" and "Mowed Lawn" Distress Oxide Inks through the "glory" stencil.

I've stamped in three shades of Versafine Clair Ink using "Shady Lane", "Acorn" and "Fallen Leaves".

This is a list of the stamps I have used on this tag:  Pipin, Meadow Mushrooms, Fir Cone Branch and Fern Branch.

I used "Ruby Red" Liquid Pearls to create the berries.

Funky Fossil "Snowflake Tree Stencil" Christmas Tag

I've made a quick Christmas gift tag today using the Funky Fossil "Snowflake Tree Stencil"   on a Distress Oxide Ink background.

I used Versafine Clair "Medieval Blue" ink through the stenicl and also to stamp the Simon Says Stamp, part of their "Tiny Words Christmas" stamp set.  I used four shades of Liquid Pearls to decorate the tree, along with a silver glitter Signo Pen.

Day 14 - 24 Days of Tags with Karen Telfer

This is my Day 14 Tag of the Karen Telfer "24 Days of Tags" challenge.  The background for this tag is created using a sprinkle of Brusho on a spritzed tag.  I used two shades of reds to create this one.

Once dry, using a Sweet Poppy mandala stencil, I first used Versafine Clair "Tulip Red" ink and then "Monarch" purple ink to create the pattern.

I used a white Posca pen to create the splatters and a gold metallic pen to edge the tag and to add extra splatters.