What if your Fears ..... by Amanda Southern
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Hi Everyone
I hope that you have all had a lovely New Year and are
looking forward to a crafty 2016. I am not one for making resolutions but I
have set myself a bit of a challenge for this year and that challenge is to use
more of the crafty stash that I seem to have acquired in a bid to convince
myself that I don’t really need much more new stuff. I envisage that
challenging myself will end the same way that making resolutions does…..
Failure!!
I’m starting my personal challenge today as everything I
have used in the project, other than the tag, I have had in my stash for a
while.
Here’s What I Did:-
I know
I did a tag last week but these MDF tags produced by That’s Crafty! themselves
are a fabulous surface to work on. This is the largest of the MDF tags
available at 10.5 cm x 21cm.
I first
brayered on a light covering of gesso onto the tag and left that to dry. I then
went to my collection of Distress paints and chose the colours that I wanted to
work with. I chose Distress paints as I love the special way they react with
water. I unscrewed the tops and dribbled the paints down the surface of the tag
moving the paint around by rolling the tag around. I then dribbled water through
the paint and just kept moving the liquid paint around until I was happy with
the effect. Doing this gives a fabulous marbled effect to the paint.
You can see the marbled effect the paint creates on this
close up.
When
the paint has totally dried, I left it overnight, it leaves a beautiful smooth
matt surface to stamp on. I chose my stamps and stamped them on with black
Archival ink. I then coloured the images using Distress markers as they are
also from the Distress range they colour beautifully over the paints.
Highlights were added with a white gel pen. The sentiment I added is one
complete stamp so to stamp it in 2 parts I just placed some masking tape over
the words I didn’t want, inked up the stamp with black Archival, removed the
tape and stamped. This I then repeated to get the other part of the sentiment
on the other side of the tag. I then reproduced some of the words by printing
them out on my old Dymo tape gun.
What I Used:-
Distress Paints - Tumbled Glass, Bundled Sage, Tattered Rose, Wild Honey
Water
Distress Markers – Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Ripe Persimmon
Carabelle
Studio Stamps :- Jardin des Delices (main image)
Dymo
Tape Gun
I hope you like it and I’ll see you next Tuesday
Love
Amanda X
6 comments
Love that gorgeous bacground Amanda. The perfect setting for those lovely stamped images and love those eye catching pops of white.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
Great tag Amanda! I love that background with its gorgeous colours!
ReplyDeleteAlison xx
Oooh fantastic and by the way you'll never keep that resolution ha ha
ReplyDeleteHugs
Donna xxx
Stunning tag Amanda, love everything about it
ReplyDeleteYeah, I had a similar resolution, and then the CHA sneak peeks started appearing - sigh!
ReplyDeleteLove this tag... the painty background is just gorgeous, and I love how you've added the actual Dymo tape - very cool.
Alison xx
Just gorgeous - love that background Amanda and the colors are fabulous. What a interesting sentiment... I don't have an answer! Need to think on that one!!! Really really neat creation. Happy New Year. j.
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