One Little Craft Tag Challenge #138

Create the background on a watercolor tag with Dylusions paint in two colors and let dry.  Stamp face, crown, hair, lets and phrase on white cardstock with Archival Ink Jet Black.  All stamps are from Dylusions Stamps.  Color the image with Zig Real Brush Markers.  Adhere all the stamp images on the tag.  Paint the chipboard glasses with Dylusions paint and let dry.  Adhere glasses on the tag.  Emboss orange cardstock and cut a triangle shape.  Paint the let die cut with Dylusions paint and let dry. Once dry adhere to the triangle.  Adhere ribbon arms and button hands to the triangle.  Cut out a glassine envelop with decorative scissors and adhere to the bottom of the triangle.  Adhere the triangle to the tag creating a paper doll.


This tag was created for The Gresham Craft Warehouse Paper Club challenge for May.

One Little Craft Tag Challenge #21

Paint a chipboard with gesso and let dry.  Create texture with embossing paste through a stencil and let dry for 24 hours.  Paint tag with orange acrylic paint (Dylusions) and let dry. Drip yellow ink down the tag and let dry.  Stamp all images with Archival Ink Jet Black.  The legs image is from Dylusions Stamps and the letters are from Recollections Stamps.  

Painting over Scrapbook Paper Tutorial

This technique is a great way to create beautiful paper out of scrapbook paper or color book pages that you migbht not necessarily use.

Ingredients
Scrapbook paper or color book page
Light body acrylic paint - Three coordinating colors, white and black.  I used dylusions paints.
Stencils or stamps in bold designs.  I used several Tim Holtz stencils.
Blending tool
Heat tool or patiences

Steps

1.  Using a blending tool, apply color to page in several different areas.  I used 3 colors tht coordinated well. 

2. Dry between colors to minimize mixing colors.  I used a heat tool.

3.  With stencils and black acrylic paint, stencil random spots around the painted paper.  Let dry  I used 3 different Tim Holtz.  Let dry.

4.  Repeat with stencils and white acrylic paint.  Let dry.

Here is a link to a blog post using this technique. 

http://talkingarttart.blogspot.com/2016/09/one-little-tag-craft-challenge-260.html

One little tag craft challenge #299

Adhere a colored color book page to a tag and then paint a light layer of gesso over it to create a White Wash Technique.  Let dry.  

With Dylusions Paint in London Blue, Calypso Teal and Vibrant Turquoise, stamp several circles(Claudine Hellmuth) and let dry.  Stamp Crow(Art Foamies) in black acrylic paint.  Let it dry.  Stamp word(Stampendous) repeatedly with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Stamp lines along bottom of the tag with Archival ink Jet Black.  Add dot of life with a white paint pen.

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #276

On scrapbook paper apply dylusions paints in several colors using a distress blending tool.  Use a stencil to created more depth and then let dry.  Trim tag with scotch decorative tape.  Stamp the mushrooms(Dylusions Stamps) on drawing paper with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Color with Inktense pencils and activate with water.  Cut out and adhere to tag.

One Little Tag Craft Challenge. #260

Adhere purple glitter washi tape to the top of a shipping tag.  Create background paper using scrapbook paper, dylusions paints and key hole (Dylusions).  Trim background paper to fit shipping tag and tear off the top portion to create a jagged edge.  Adhere background paper to tag.  Stamp word on mail label with alphabet stamps (Wordsworth) and Archival Ink Jet Black.  Adhere to tag.  

One Little Tag Craft Challenge. #254

Using Julie Fei Fan Balzer technique, create background using dylusions paints and stencils.  Stamp image on shipping tag Archival Ink Jet Black.  Tear background and adhere around stamp images. Apply washi tape to the tag.  Highlight the tears and washi tape with watersolible graphite pencil.  

Video with the background technique https://youtu.be/xEWsO7qR0Bg

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #184

On a shipping tag, paint two colors of Dylusions Paints.  The two colors here are Bubble Gum Pink and Calypso Teal.  Let dry.  Stencil the skull image over the tag.  Let dry.  Apply washi tape and sequins to highlight the designs.

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #151

Using a baby wipe apply Dylusions paints to a manila tag.  Colors used were London Blue and Cut Grass.  Let dry.  Using black and white acrylic paint, stamp circles with two different drink lids.  Let dry.  On white cardstock stamp peacock scene with Archival Ink Jet Black.  Color with distress markers in peacock feather, dusty concord, broken china, mowed lawn, and spice marmalade.  Spray with water until color run.  Press dry towel to stop bleeding.  Let dry.  Cut out.  Using photo corners from Martha Stewart Crafts to adhere stamped image to the tag.  Adhere love sticker to mini tag and then adhere tag to the larger tag.  Emphasis love sticker with Dimensional Magic.  Let dry.  

ICAD warm up #8

Warm up #8 was to create imperfect circles.  

Using a baby wipe to apply paint to the index card.  Dylusions paint in Cut Grass and London Blue.  Let dry.  Then with black acrylic paint stamp circles with a toilet paper roll.  With white acrylic paint and a soda cap and the end of a paint brush stamp additional circles.  Let dry.  

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #130

Using a clean baby wipe apply three colors of Dylusions Paint in Bubble Gum Pink, Vibrant Turquoise, and Crushed Grape.  Let Dry.  Stamp the images with Archival Ink Jet Black.  The Mona Lisa image is from a company no longer in business and the Beauty stamp is from Lost Coast Stamps.  Using the Dylusions Stencil Shattered spray glitter spray over the tag.  (The shimmer is hard to see in the picture but trust me it is there.)

Here is Dyan Reaveley showing how to do the baby wipe technique  https://youtu.be/85HCbQGkjfA.  For this technique a little paint goes a long way. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #129

Paint a manila tag with a baby wipe and Dylusions Paints in Crushed Grape and Bubble Gum Pink.  Let Dry.  Stencil circle images (Dina Wakley) with Vibrant Turquoise Dylusions Paint.  Let dry.  Stamp images with Archival Ink Jet Black.  The love stamp is from Lost Coast Designs.  The flower is a Recollections Stamp and the mom stamps are from Hero Arts.