Suite of Tags

Let's have a little suite of tags: I made these as a gift.

These are the smaller sized tags, the four inch ones.

Used small manilla tags, recollections, fiskars and Hero Arts "A" stamp, distress ink colorbox pigment ink, and prismacolors.  First step: lay down a background image using a light color of colorbox pigment.  Go over this with a light colored distress paint dauber.

After this background image is "fixed" (I also used a heat gun on it, I'm impatient!) Stamp some darker images with archival dye (you could use staz-on or any fast drying dye)

Then: distress ink! Yay. Lots of dauber action (I'm a tskukineko tools kinda gal, I admit) and a little bit of fantastix touches with both antique linen and frayed burlap colorways.

Then a little prismacolor fun - nothing too tight and cautious, just a little highlighting.

A little bit of seven gypsies paper, some doodling with a pen to highlight the edge.

The blue stain on the edge of the floral tag is some distress stain in broken china.

To soften the backgrounds, I used the "antque linen" distress paint dauber over the stamping, selectively, before aging it back more with antique linen distress ink.  The dauber has a very transparent paint - I didn't think I'd like these tools as much as I do!

A little hand coloring with prismacolor pencils - nothing too fine-tuned, just a little blush.

I think she'll like these. The lace is from the endless fibers stash.

Challenges: Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Tags
Eclectic Ellapu : Vintage
Quick Quotes: Tag you're It
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