Lady Butterfly Tag

The theme is still Anything Goes at Tag Tuesday

I was inspired by Sandra’s Tag to pull out a couple of face stamps to try her background technique.  Which for me, eliminates the need to paint the image.  I am pretty pleased with the front of this tag.

Both stamps are by Stampington & Company

On the back.  I failed at choosing colors for the backside as well as bad placement for the face (which I tried to correct with Gesso).  This entire tag was a learning experience anyway, so I kept it.

I used my Neocolor II crayons.  I scribbled across the tag with the crayon then wet my fingertip and rubbed it over the colors.  I did the same technique with the seam binding.

   

I wanted to tone down the colors around the images so I brushed some Gesso around the image with kind of a dry brush technique.  I hoped the Gesso would take up the color underneath.  I stamped some IndigoBlu images around the outside edges.  To finish I tinted the edges with Walnut Stain Distress Ink and Black Archival Ink.

April 2021 is already over!  It was another month full of fun and art.

I’m hoping May will be full of the same.

Lester Kind Tag

I’m joining a new-to-me blog challenge today at Tag Tuesday

I love making tags and I hang them around the house swapping them out during the year.  I’m also trying to make greeting “tags” for gifts rather than a traditional greeting card.

This tag started with a test paper used for creating my most recent art journal page.  Not much of the test paper is even visible anymore.  It just happens that way sometimes.

In my paper stash I found a sheet of vintage photos that came in a magazine.  Somerset Studio, I think is the one that includes papers.  This is where I found Lester Kind.  He does look like a kind gentleman, does he.  I’ve never heard that he’s ever whacked anyone with his cane.  And everyone knows how much he loves butterflies.

I pulled out bits and bobs from my rejects box to glue on the tag.  I stitched the photo to the portion of the ticket that I tore away from the numbers.  I added some bits of Washi tape and stitched around the outside of the tag.  The butterfly had been die cut from a light blue/purple paper (little wonder it was in the reject box) so I sprayed it with a couple of Distress Spray Stain colors.  Over the butterflies’ existing body I glued a die cut clock hand.  



The backside of the tag was also cut from the test paper.  I added pieces of Washi tape.  Over both sides I did a light brushing of Gesso here and there and everywhere.  I inked some seam binding with a Distress ink and attached it along with a hang string.



Tag Tuesday posts a new theme every two weeks.  The current theme is Anything Goes and runs for another week.  If you like making tags, come join in the challenge.