Rise Above by Donna Gray

Hi everyone,

Donna here today with a tag featuring a really lovely stamp by Carmen’s Veranda.

What to do:

To achieve the crackle effect you’ll need to cover a sheet of Strathmore Mixed Media Paper with a layer of DecoArt Crackle paint, set this aside to crack naturally.

When it’s dry, sprinkle a little bit of an Infusions powder on it and spritz with water, keep spritzing and blotting until you are happy with the effect.

Stamp the image using black Archival ink, if you have a stamping platform use that just in case you need to re stamp it if you don’t achieve a first

clear impression. 

Fussy cut the image out and place to one side. Don’t waste the rest of the paper you have left as the circles and the little ‘mosaic’ pieces were also used from it to add to the tag as finishing touches.

The tag was actually dyed with tea (after a mammoth calico tea dying session I had some tea left) but a brown Distress Oxide/Ink will work just as well, you want to create an ‘aged’ look to the background.

I took 2 different Dinky stencils to add some details to the background, pouncing Distress Inks through them to give a muted effect.

Add some stamping with the leaf from one of my Quirky Girls’ sets and colour in with a green pencil; once again you want to keep it subtle.

Adhere everything to the tag and then for a finishing touch add a Tim Holtz flower and sentiment.

I think the inspiration for my tag was my recent holiday to France where they have the most fantastic museum of Roman finds so as soon as I saw this stamp I knew I needed it J

Supplies Used:

Carmen’s Veranda Stamp – Large Angel Head

That’s Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Quirky Girls Collection - Penny

That’s Crafty! Dinky Stencils

Strathmore Mixed Media Paper Pad

DecoArt Crackle Paint

PaperArtsy Infusions

Distress Oxides

Distress Inks

Black Archival Ink

Size 8 Manila Tags

Tim Holtz Clippings Stickers

Tim Holtz Flowers

Hope you like it

Donna x