Tag Along Challenge : Theatre

I decided to play along with the Tag Along challenge this week, the title was : Theatre, and I used the wonderful Showgirls from Lost Coast Designs :

To create this tag, I first stamped the image onto the tag with coffee archival ink, then stamped the stamp onto a piece of scrap paper. I fussy cut this and used it to mask my image. I then added some white acrylic paint and let it dry. I added distress stain over that, the acrylic acts as a light resist. I removed the mask and colored the girls using inktense pencils, finally adding some washi and ribbon :)

That was fun to do, hope you found some inspiration here :)

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So bright tag

Agatha is feeling very bright this morning and enjoying her new angelic status :)

For the background I used a blue acrylic as a resist to the dylusions bubble gum pink I sprayed on. Its not exactly neon paint, but it sure glows and gives a similar effect.

Agatha is stamped in stazon, colored with inktense pensils and fussy cut. I stamped bee wings onto vellum and embossed them in a pearlised embossing powder and fussy cut them. The black is doodled.

I am entering this into the neon stampotique designers challenge and tag along angels challenge.

New Year Reveler

This weeks challenge, #8 over at the Lost Coasters Review is to create a tag and the Tag Along challenge #70 is Anything Goes. Here is a New Year reveler, still ringing in 2015 :

 For this tag I have used an image from Isle of Aud Creatures. Isn't he just wonderful, love this type of weird and wonderful image. I stamped him in black and embossed my reveler with clear embossing powder. I wanted it to act as a resist as I painted the non black bits of the image with pale pink and white acrylic paint to get some contrast from the background. I have also used a border stamp called Spiral Border. I added a little gold, silver and pink embossing powder to the ground.

The background is made by using various colors of acrylic paint (pink and green) to cover the tag, then when it's dry adding a layer of grey. When the paint was wet I splashed water onto it, which prevents the paint from drying in that section.  When the rest of the grey is dry, I used kitchen towel to remove the still wet paint to reveal the colors beneath.

I stamped the sentiment with an alpha stamp and added the ribbon.

I hope you will come and join us in our challenge, there is a chance to win $10 to spend  on Lost Coast Designs stamps.

Some special gift tags

Using the beautiful deer wooden XMAS-456 embellishment from Southern Ridge Trading Co, I made up some gift tags. These are actually atc sized (3.5" x 2.5"). 

The deer is so perfect, I didn't want to add anything to it, but the background is created by swiping victorian velvet distress paint over a manilla tag leaving some areas clear. Then I added picket fence distress stain and the paint acts as a resist.  I added a layer of  distress crackle paint in clear rock candy. Look how gorgeous it is when dry, it highlights the deer beautifully :

I stamped the ground / postmark in baked brown sugar Stampin' Up! ink on top of the crackle paint and added the seam binding which was colored with the victorian velvet distress paint. I mounted the tag onto baked brown sugar card stock and  lightly edged it with Stampendous shabby pink embossing enamel.

I entered them into the Tag Along challenge this week #68 - its all about reindeer :)
Yay, got picked in the top 3 :)

I also used these as ATC's to trade, as part of the OK ATC trade I facilitate :)

Thanks for stopping by.