One Little Craft Tag Challenge #106

 On a manila tag create a background with Distress oxide in three colors using Watercolor smooshing technique.  Let dry.  Repeat the watercolor smooshing and distress oxide on mixed media paper.  Let dry.  Adhere the pink cut out paper to tag.  Let dry.  Stamp the rabbit images (Crafty Individuals) on a prepared mixed media paper and cut to size.  Add to vintage text page.  Stitch along the top of each panel with baker's twine.  Adhere panels to tag.  Adhere gems with Dimensional Magic.

One Little Tag Craft Challenge. #245

On a manila tag, stencil compass (Dina Wakley) with black acrylic ink and spray with yellow spray (Recollections) and let dry.  Using Dr. Ph Martin's Hydrus Ink and water create runny ink drips.  Let dry.  Stamp crow (Lost Coast Designs) on a vintage music sheet with archival ink.  Tear out.  On a vintage sticker apply rub on letters and apply on the tag.  

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #152

Scribble three colors of watercolor crayons on a manila tag.  Activate with water.  Lay a stencil over the tag and with a baby wipe wipe off color creating a ghosting effect.  Brand of the stencil is unknown.  Let dry.  With Archival Ink Jet Black stamp word and daisy image.  Daisy image is from Hampton Arts and Alphabet set is from Echo Park.  

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #96

Tear a paper doily into piece and adhere to a manila tag.  Color watercolor crayon over the doily, activate by moistening a finger and rubbing the color into the groves of the doily. Creat circles using two size bottle lids and black acrylic paint. Stamp phrase and bird (both are Dina Wakley stamps) on tissue paper with Archival Ink Jet Black. Adhere to tag. Apply gems to tag. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #94

The main image was created from a prompt of Cat Held's Mixed Media Morsels and inspired by a friend, Laurelle. Here is the video of Cat Held demoing the technique.  It is surprisingly easy but makes some dramatic paper.  I made about 5 pages of it in one setting.  I am sure it will show up in more of my tags.

Color a manila Tag with with metallic watercolor crayons.  Using a Tim Stencil and a baby wipe rub away the design creating a ghost image.  Create background text paper using the Mixed Media Morsel painted circle technique.  Using a Dylusions mask, cut out image of female from the created paper.  Adhere to tag. Outline with dashes using an india ink marker. Adhere a strip of the created paper along the edge.  Adhere the line from a book.  The line is "She thought of the love in the heathen woman's breast, from an Andersen's Fairy Tale. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #93

Stencil left over green acrylic paint over a manila card using a Tim Holtz stencil.  Let dry.  Using a Dylusions Mask, color over mask on a piece of text using water color crayons.  Outline image with india ink marker.  Stamp quote on old text paper, cut out and outline with an india marker.  Adhere to tag. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #92

Since it was April Fool's day I wanted a tag about fools or being foolish.  This line from a Miranda Lambert song popped into my head.

Lines of acrylic paint were run along a text page and then spread using a foam brush.  Let dry.  Stamp iron star image using Archival Ink Jet Black.  Adhere to manila tag.  Stamp sprite image (Lost Coast Designs) and stamp quote on old book page using Archival Ink Jet Black.  Adhere to to tag.

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #90

90 tags in 90 days.  That means commitment.  In the world of 12 step meetings to show dedication to sobriety you are asked to do 90 meetings in 90 days.  When I realized I had completed 90 tags in 90 day I was pleased with myself.  I have found this exercise to be really enjoyable and believe if I can do it for one quarter of the year I can do it for the entire year.  This tag is a combination of several different challenges.  The background was the acrylic paint challenge and the found object challenge.  The main image was part of the text page challenge. 

A manila tag was covered in teal paint and allowed to dry.  Using a lid to a soda bottle, two types of circles were stamped with acrylic paint.  The white solid ones are from the top of the cap and the open purple ones were from the bottom of the cap.  Images (Dylusions Couture Collection) were stamped with Archival Ink Jet Black on text paper from a child's fairy tale book from the 1950s.  Images were colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then activated with a water brush.  Gems were adhered to the tag.

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #81

This tag was created using rubber cement as a mask. It requires patience because to work the cement must cure for at least 24 hours. It does create a wonderful grungy piece of work. 

A manilla tag was painted with red and yellow acrylic paint to create and ombré background.  The Sprite(Zettiology) was stamped with Archival Ink Jet Black and then masked with rubber cement. The rubber cement cures for 24 hours then orange acrylic paint. After that layer dries, the clock image from Non Sequitur was stamped repeatedly with Archival Ink Jet Black and masked with rubber cement. Again it was left to cure for 24 hours. The final layer is white acrylic paint over the entire tag. Once paint is dry the rubber cement is rubbed off revealing the images and layers of paint. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #79

Yellow acrylic was spread on a manila tag with a credit card. When dry, orange paint was applied through a Stencil Girl stencil. All images were stamped using Archival Ink Jet Black. The jeans were masked so the sewer lid would appear behind the jeans. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #78

The tag was used to clean up several different acrylic paints.  This way no paint is every wasted and interesting backgrounds are created.  Wet acrylic paint was applied to the tag, to create the lines, a plastic fork was scratched into the paint creating texture.  The image from Hampton Arts was stamped on a vintage book page with Archival Ink Jet Black.  The sentiment (Recollections Alphabet Stamps)  was stamped on fabric paper with the same ink and then sprayed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist to achieve a vintage effect. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #77

This quote is something a friend of mine would say every year during the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New Orleans.  It felt like an appropriate celebration for the day.  

Gesso was applied to a manila tag in a haphazard way so that not the entire tag was covered.  For the acrylic paint smooshing technique, green and blue acrylic paint were applied to a non stick craft mat and then sprayed with water.  The tag was swiped through the wet paint to apply to the tag creating a mottled application.  Once dried, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in gold was applied through a Stencil Girl Stencil.  Sentiment was stamped onto handmade paper with Archival Ink Jet Black then sprayed with the Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in gold so that it would match.  Phrase was torn out of paper and applied to tag.  

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #76

This tag uses stencils and acrylic paint in a different way.  When every I paint with acrylic paint I like to have a layer of gesso to prime the base (in this case a manila tag) so that less acrylic paint is needed and the paint is more predictable. 

A manila tag was covered with Gesso.   Two colors of Claudine Hellmuth Studio Acrylics were applied to gessoed tag with a scrap of cardboard to give it texture.  Colors are Pastel Yellow and Purple Palette.  Claudine Hellmuth Studio Acrylics Smidge of Blue was applied over a mask from the Dylusions  the Suits stencil.  Images from Sideshow Stamps were stamped inside the hearts with Archival Ink Jet Black.  The stencil part was used as a way to mask off the image.  Pieces of decorative tape were applied to tag. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #75

 

This week's challenge from Craft Test Dummies is to use acrylic paint.  The background of this tag was completed the week before when the challenge was using stencils.  So bang, two challenges one tag. 

Gesso was applied to a manila tag.  Once dry, acrylic paint (Claudine Helmuth Studio Paints Smidge of Blue) was applied through a Tim Holtz stencil with a baby wipe.  Then image (Oxford Impressions) was stamped on tissue paper with Archival Ink Jet Black and applied to the tag.  Sentiment was stamped on notebook paper with Archival Ink Jet Black. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #73

Green acrylic paint is spread on a manila tag and then using a stencil and baby wipe the image is wiped away in a ghosting technique. All images are stamped with Archival Ink Jet Black. Images are all from Oxford Impressions. Sprayed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Spray. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #13

 

A simple but sweet tag.

Blue acrylic paint was sponged on to a manila tag, and then white acrylic paint was sponged through a Tim Holtz stencil.  Quote and image were cut from a vintage golden book and adhered to tag.

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #11

 

Graph paper was applied to a manila tag and then blue acrylic paint was painted over the top.  Using a Tim Holtz stencil white acrylic paint was applied to painted tag.  Star image and quote were stamped on graph paper with archival ink and then adhered to tag.  Stickles glitter glue was applied on the stars.  Quote is from River City Rubber and manufacturer of star stamp is unknown