Little Altered Tags: Ballooning sweet thoughts

I like to ink up my stamps and print them the way I'd print a tiny little linocut block - rather than pressing down, laying the paper onto the block and burnishing over the on the back of the paper woth your bone folder gives you the ability to control your edges and fade them if you want.

That's what I did with the damask print on this tag. It's printed with chalk ink over a smudging of pigment ink.  The edges are all aged with more pigment - I love those little cat's eye sets for this kind of thing! They really help you get into a tiny space.

The peach paper is from a seven gypsies pack. I love having those little bits and pieces at my disposal. The lace and the millinery flowers are from my collection of vintage fibers.

 The amazingly sweet birds-in-a-balloon image and the teacup image are both printouts from public-domain images.  

Keep surfing those libraries and museums - there's a lot of material out there from long ago. I aged the edge of the balloon cutout with pigment ink, mod podged it for a little more body, and glued it to a handmade tab for a little bit of dimension.

The 2014 is a little bit from Basic Grey, and the lace and pompom fiber is from my giant stash of yarns and trims.

Challenges:

Rosie and Rhedd: Anything but a Card

Fashionable Stamping: Anything Goes

Stamping Sensations : Pretty In Pink

Artful Times: Anything Goes