Hey
everyone! It's Lotte here again, it's the weekend, and what better
way to spend your time than to do a bit of crafting? I've been
playing with the That's Crafty! greyboard long tags – they are
brilliant for doing small, quick makes and trying out different
colour combos etc, and they are really sturdy so will take a lot of
painting and distressing! I got a bit carried away and ended up
making quite a few tags, but will share just the two today. I used
the same paints, stencil, stamp and ink pads for both, and really
like the way each tag looks different but complements the other.
Materials Used:
For
the first tag, I painted the top third in Fresco Finish Mermaid, and
the bottom two thirds in London Bus. Once dry, I sanded lightly from
top to bottom, and rubbed some Archival Potting Soil into the
scratches, using my fingertips. Next, a light coating of DecoArt
crackle paint down one side.
When
that was dry, I inked up the Carabelle stamp in Archival Watering
Can, and stamped it at odd angles to each other, including on top of
the crackle paint. With the Arrows stencil, I used a fine paint brush
to pick up a bit of ink from the Red Geranium pad, and stencilled in
thin arrow. Then mixed a bit of texture paste with a teeny bit of
black paint and stencilled more arrows.
I
finished up by making a couple of marks with an ordinary pencil, used
some dry transfer lettering to add a word, and used a piece of bubble
wrap inked with Potting Soil to add texture to the corners.
The
second tag was painted with Fresco Finish Mermaid, and once again
sanded and Potting Soil ink added to the scratches. I stamped the
Carabelle stamp in Red Geranium on the top two thirds and with white
gesso on the bottom third (Stamp with paint by brayering a thin layer
onto craft sheet, then lightly brayer the stamp . Make sure to clean
your stamp at once after stamping with paint!!)
A
couple of random dabs of bubble wrap in Potting Soil once the gesso
was dry, as well as a fingertip stamp of the Carabelle stamp (don't
put the stamp on a block, but just use fingertip to add tiny bits of
the image).
To
finish off, coloured texture paste was applied through the Arrows
stencil - the top line of little arrows are a mix of texture paste
and Watering Can ink applied with a fine brush. As before, the word
was added using dry transfer lettering (you get this at the
stationer's).
That's
all for this week, but I look forward to seeing you next week - don't forget to share your makes on the FaceBook group page, I'd love
to see what you make!
Lotte
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They are gorgeous Lotte, love the grungy look, and crackle on the first one, and your many wonderful details on both - God weekend til dig - :-) x
ReplyDeleteLotte, I totally agree with everything Dorthe (above) has already said! Anne x
ReplyDeleteGorgeous grungy effects on these Lotte and love the colours and all the amazing detail too.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
Fab tags , Lotte . Love the 'distressed ' look you have achieved and how each can stand alone claiming its own identity and yet they can come together in harmony. Tfs x
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