Angel Tags by Amanda Southern

Hi Everyone

I have a couple of tags for you this week which evolved out of a play session using some of the new stuff I have that I hadn't played with yet.

I have been playing with lots of new stamps this week and have had the distress oxides sprays sitting on my desk for a while so I eventually got around to playing with those. These tags are really just me playing with new stuff that's been sitting around.

Here's What I Did:

First thing I wanted to play with was the Distress Oxide spray and I chose a collection of colours and started spraying them onto some heavy card stock, I didn't lay down a background colour as I wanted some of the white card to show through. To add some stronger colour splashes I unscrewed the top and flicked the ink from the straw inside. I loved the boldness of these splashes but they took ages to dry even with a heatgun. I also tried out Tim's splat box as I usually get spray everywhere and this box really does the trick.

I then die cut 2 size #8 tags from the parts I wanted, if you haven't got a tag die you can buy them from the shop.

To mute them down a little a brayered a little white multi purpose paint over them in places.

I then just played by adding some stamping using both Carabelle stamps and Tim's mixed media stamps using both Distress Oxide Ink Pads and the mini Archival Distress Inks. 

I stamped the Carabelle Angels, designed by Kate Crane, onto the tags and them stamped the angels onto a piece of scrap paper that I had cleaned my brayer off on from a previous project and also again onto white card. I cut them both out and then paper pieced them together and them added them to the tag lining up the pieces to the image I had stamped onto the tag. 

I then added a little texture by stencilling on some texture paste and adding the sentiments which are from the latest collection from Alison Bomber for PaperArtsy. the final touch was a little bit of doodling with white and black posca paint pens.

They were then matted onto black card and I added some sari silk through the tag.

Here's What I Used:

Thick Card

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Sprays - Picked Raspberry, Mermaid Lagoon, Spiced Marmalade, Wilted Violet & Cracked Pistachio

Tim Holtx Splat Box 

Tim Holtx Distress Oxide Ink Pads - Spiced Marmalade & Picked Raspberry

Archival Mini Distress Ink Pads - Mermaid Lagoon, Picked Raspberry & Spiced Marmalade

Carabelle Studio Stamps A6 - Angels and Grungy Patterns (designed by Kate Crane)

Tim Holtz Stamps - Media Marks Set 1 & 2

Paperartsy Stamps by Alison Bomber - EAB09 The Love Edition & EAB10 Friends & Friendship

Black Archival Ink Pad

That's Crafty Texture Paste

That's Crafty Multi Purpose Craft Glue

That's Crafty White Multi surface Paint - White

Brayer

Tags (if you don't cut your own)

Painty paper scrap

Dot Fade Stencil

Sari Ribbon

Have a fabulous week and I will see you all next Tuesday

Love

Aamanda X