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Sharon xx
I love making tags but I always find it difficult know what to do with them once they are finished, so they invariably end up on the front of a card.
On this tag I was playing with distress re-inkers again because they sort of give me the effect I used to enjoy with the distress stains before they stopped making them. I also played with heat embossable acetate (if you look closely you will see the tree is actually on acetate) and this is how I made it:
Wet a piece of watercolour card and drop some re-inker onto it. Spray the drops with more water and dry with a heat tool.
Keep adding layers of colour and whilst drying spritz with more water and dab with some paper towel for a textured effect. You can always deepen the colours by blending on some distress ink.
Then partial stamp the script over a few areas too.
Now, on some heat embossable acetate, stamp and heat emboss the tree in a copper embossing powder. Add some green perfect pearls into the leaves. For the blossom I used pink acrylic paint and dipped the head of a dressmaking pin into the paint and then dotted that onto the acetate. You can see the effect on the bottom left of the tree here. Set the acetate aside to dry completely as well.
I wasn't quite happy with the stamping that I had done on the background because it didn't seem to 'pop' enough for me. So I took the leaf stamp from the stamp set and stamped it a few times onto the tag in a darker colour of ink. Then I blended the same colour ink onto the edges of the tag and added a bit of doodling with a white opaque pen.
To do the final bits to make this into a proper tag I made a hole in the top and added some coordinating ribbon. I also found a copper leaf charm in my stash so I added that too. You can see some of the sparkle and shine in this photo.
Hello everyone. It's my day to blog a card made with some Visible Image stamps today. You'll have to excuse me for being brief but a I can't type too much as I have come down with carple tunnel.
This card was made with the 'Hope and Colour' challenge that Visible Image are running in their Facebook Group at the moment. It's a card that would give hope to any would-be dancer and this is how I made it: