All week I have been busy making tags for the card swap for Following The Paper Trail. My BFF convinced me (without much prodding) to sign up for all three styles. That's 27 tags. What have you got me into now Mary Matthys? (HA HA I blame Mary) I do love making tags. The top Tag(the one with the dove) is my Shabby Chic tag. I did a couple of things I have never done before. There is a brick embossing on the tag (you can't tell much in the picture. I took the brayer and inked it with distress ink and then put the tag through the cute little embossing purse from Sissix. Then I took picket fence distress stain and did a white wash over the brick. I inked the edges. Then my friend Mary calls me and tells me that my tag is too narrow and I should of read the directions. (my fault) So I added the borders . This was a good mistake because I think it added something. Also, this was the first time I ever made these types of flowers and I really liked them.
The next tag is my version of grunge style. I really like this tag. Funny thing is this was the easiest for me to do and the quickest. I think I like the grunge style the best. The netting I used that is behind the car is a piece of plastic from a "to go pizza "(it was on the bottom to protect the pizza from sticking to the bottom of the box) I had gotten at a crop I attended in Hayward. We laughed when I picked it up and said hhhmmm maybe I could use this. My friend took a picture of me. I dyed it with alcohol inks. I love this netting I have used it on other projects too. I need to get some more. The car and the flower is made from soda cans. I stamped the car on the piece of aluminum with archival ink and then embossed it. Then I dyed it with alcohol inks. I then cut the car out. The flower I dyed the aluminum first and then used a die to cut it out on the Big Shot. I took my jewelry pliers and manipulated it to give it a 3-D shape.
The next tag is my version of French Country. This tag was the hardest for me my Mojo just wasn't working, I do really like it but it took a long time to create. I tried not to be so expectable with this tag. (Notice no flowers or butterflies or swirls.) This tag required a lot of embossing. I did not have gold embossing powder so I made my own. I used clear embossing powder and mixed it with gold perfect pearls powder. The Key, the crown, and the door plate are embossed. Also, I did a new technique that I thought of (I'm sure someone else has done this but for now I am claiming it until I see someone else do it) I took the tulip embossing folder (which the design framed the tag) and embossed the tag so that the edges have a raised design. The I took perfect medium and dabbed and rubbed it across the raised design. I also used a circular motion around the edged. Then I used perfect pearls (gold) I took a paint brush dipped it dry and picked up the powder and brushed it on where I used the medium. It is cool because it did stick to the raised design and look like the edges were distressed in gold instead of the usual brown ink. This is barely visible in the picture but very pretty in person.
Well I hope whoever gets my tags really like them. I surely enjoyed making them. Now I have to make the Shabby Drawer mini so I can store the tags in it. Always another project.
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