52 Week Mini Art Card/Tag Challenge

Monday 4 December 2023

Day 19 of Karen Telfer's "24 Days of Tags 2023" challenge.



I'm playing catch up on my tags again as I was away at the weekend attending a course.  I'll share with you what I was up to in my next post.

This is my Day 19 tag of "Karen Telfer's 24 Days of Tags 2023" challenge.

For my tag, I used two Lavinia Stamps the "Mystic Swirl" and "Christmas Charms", stamped in Wow! clear embossing ink, coated in Wow! Rich Gold Embossing Powder and then heat set.

I then created the background colour using two shades of Distress Oxide Inks:  "Twisted Citron" and "Lucky Clover".  I deliberately kept the darker ink away from the hanging star, to give the impression that the star is shining light. I rubbed over the heat embossing with a cloth to remove any ink that was over it.

Next, I used a fan shaped paint brush, dipped in water and tapping the brush over the surface of the tag, creating tiny droplets, I then blotted the water, which left a lovely bleached splattered look.

I used the same technique with metalic gold paint to add tiny gold flecks across the surface of the tag.

Finally, I mounted the tag on to a piece of red card and outlined the inner tag with a metalic gold pen.

4 comments:

  1. This is one beautiful and lovely tag Sam, great colours and gold flecks xx

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  2. Such beautiful colours Sam, and the gold embossed flourish and hanging star is so pretty, especially with the more yellow tone around the 'shining' star, and the snowy effect of the water droplets is perfect. x

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