Song of the Snowflakes Tag

Hello Everyone,
Today I have created a tag to put on top of a Christmas gift. 

Stamp  Snowflakes from the Winter Wonderland set.  The snowflakes are stamped using Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans, Tumbled Glass, and Peacock Feathers.  Using the same colors blend the background together.  

Make sure you stamp some of the snowflakes off the edge to make it appear as if they are falling. Add  Weathered Wood and Pumice Stone ink around the edges to finish the background.   

Stamp the Feathered Wings using embossing ink.  Emboss the wings using a detail gold powder.  Add Perfect Medium to the wings and then use Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls all over. This fills in the white areas, but you can still see all the fine detail of the stamp.   

Using Christmas clipping stickers create a little snowflake story.  Add white gel pen around the clippings.  Scribble with a silver gel pen all around the background of the tag.  You can't see the scribbles when you look at the tag, but when you turn it in the light it picks up little hints of shimmer.    

Attach the wings to the back of a paperdoll.  Use foam tape to adhere the doll to the tag.  Color her cheeks using a Spun Sugar Distress Marker.  Add tiny silver flowers to her hat.  

Wrap up your brown paper package with string and pop that tag right on top.  

If you'd like to hop along with Blank Page Muse click here.

Happy Holidays!

Jess

Happy 4th of July!

                                          Have a wonderful, safe, and happy 4th!

                                                               Jess

Playing with Wendy Vecchi's crackle paste

I discovered we have a teeny tiny stamp store very close to my house.  They carry some stuff I can't find at the typical big box craft store.  One of the best things I have found there is Wendy Vecchi's crackled texture paste.
I have used Tim Holtz's crackle paint, but Wendy's paste is, well paste.  It's thick and awesome for using with stencils.
My first project was actually just a mop up tag from other projects.  Since I hadn't used the paste I thought it would be good to try it on here.

I started by just smearing a thin layer of the paste all over the card and then drying it with my heat gun once I saw cracks start to form when air drying.  Once the paste was dry I used Evergreen Bough and Gathered Twigs Distress stain to color the paste.  

I randomly added tissue wrap with gel medium.  

The saying is Cosmo Cricket tiny type.  The frame is Tim Holtz's Industrious line.  

Look how tiny that waist is.   The girl needs a cookie.  This image is from Lisa's Altered Art.  I put a book page behind it to add some demension.  The tag is finished off with some crinkle ribbon colored with Evergreen Bough, Gathered Twigs, and Spun Sugar.  

I have another project to share using Wendy's paste.  Be sure to stop back.

Frilly and Funky is having a words challenge this beauty will be in the running.

What have you been crafting?

Jess

Dress form tag

I found this stamp in the stash.  It had never been used.  Whoops.  It's not the only one like that, but I decided to break it in.  

The background is a combination of Broken China, Victorian Velvet, and Pumice Stone Distress inks.  I smushed them on the craft sheet and misted the sheet with water.  I ran the tag around a couple times, drying it between layers.  

The background stencil is a large Martha Stewart stencil. I used the Broken China Ink on the stencil.  The dress form is stamped in Black Archival ink.

The resin frame is the right shade, but it wasn't grungy enough.  Slate alcohol ink toned it down a bit.  The flower is from Prima.  The words are Tiny Type from Cosmo Cricket.

Silk sari ribbon completes the tag.  

Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday link.

What have you been crafting?

Jess