One Little Craft Tag Challenge #42

Paint a kraft cardstock tag with green Distress Paint and let dry.  On a piece of vintage text page, stencil leaf pattern with Distress Paint and a Heidi Swapp stencil.  Let dry then adhere to tag.  Emboss kraft cardstock and emphasis texture with green panpastel.  Seal with hairspray.  Cut embossed paper to fit tag and adhere.  Let dry.  Embellish with sticker.  

One Little Tag Challenge Tag #2

The second tag is on a black tag. I stamped the background using a hero arts Christmas ornament with versamark and rubbed pan pastels in several metallic colors. I used the recollections alphabet stamps for the sentiment and stamped with versamark and pan pastels. The tag was embellished with recollections glitter tape, embroidery floss and a clear button. 

Panpastels to the rescue

Every create a background then realize that it's just to bright to be a background that it will take over the entire piece?  Yes I've done it once or twice myself. One way to fix it is to some how cover it with a white or buff color. For this card, I started off with that problem but I used panpastel in white and a stencil to push the painted piece into the background

Ingredients

Acrylic Paints (Distress Paints)

Non-stick Craft Sheet

Spray bottle with Water

Watercolor Paper (Canson Mixed Mefia)

Panpastel (White)*

Sponge Applicator

Stencil

Stamps (Tim Holtz)

Stamp Pad (Archival Ink Jet Black) 

Pitt Pen

Adhesive (ATG)

Washi Tape

Card Base

Steps

1. Apply acrylic paint to craft sheet making sure that the color do not touch each other to decrease over blending. Spray with water. 

2. Lay watercolor paper on top of paint. Smoosh around just a little bit. Pick up paper and if more paint is desired repeat this step. If there is any paint let spray with water and repeat on a different piece of watercolor for additional backgrounds. 

3.  After watercolor piece is dry. Apply panpastel* over the paint using a stencil and a sponge applicator.  

4.  Stamp images with archival ink. Doodle around age with pitt pen. 

5.  Using adhesive apply panel to card base. Place pieces of tone washi tape around edges as desired. 

* I found Panpastels work best due to the binder in the formula. But you can use any chalk or pastel but you will not get the vibrancy of Panpastels and will have to use something like a fixative or hairspray to bind it. 

 

On this altered book page background, I did the opposite. I thought the background was to pale and flat so applied panpastel in a purple color and a doily stencil.