I had a fun time in the craft room this evening making a tag and trying to figure out how to make it work out the way I wanted to. It didn't come out the way that I wanted but I like it anyway. Needless to say in the process of having fun making my tag my desk has become a really messy junked up heap of "schtuff"! Okay! I know it always looks this way but I think it is even a little more so then usual!
I try and keep it picked up but somehow it always gets too looking like this and it doesn't seem to matter if I put away after I use each product it still ends up a mess so I just quit trying to put it away during and just put away at the end of each fun time...or maybe at the beginning of the next!
This wasn't the way I envisioned this tag turning out but I like it! I first inked the card with various shades of green, yellow, and blue Distress Ink and distressed around the edges. I used Tim Holtz Classics #1 dragonfly stamp and the flourish from the Spring Sprung stamp set. I stamped the dragonfly in Archival black ink then stamped the whole dragonfly a second time and then the wings a third so I could layer them on the tag. Using coarse texture gel and a wave stencil I gave the tag some depth...the texture gel picked up the color from the underlying Distress Ink and took on that color. Kind of cool huh! The dragonfly is colored with Luminart spray in green and blues. I used some bling on the body and antenna.
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| a close up of the dragonfly wings. |
I finished up the tag with some metal bits and coin charms I found at Micheal's on sale.
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Stamping Ground and Julia will tell you how you can come play with us...it is a lot of fun! Off to see if I can't find some more fun things to get into in the room of stash. Have fun hopping around the blogs!
