Mixed Media Tags

Hello Crafty friends! I hope you are doing well and that your summer is off to a great start! I shared these tags over on the WOW blog and wanted to also share them with you here! I hope you like them – I had a lot of fun creating these! So let’s get started!

I started by die cutting 2 tags from hot press watercolor card stock.  I used the Tim Holtz Tag die set. Next I chose my colors of oxide sprays.  I am using Saltwater Taffy and Uncharted Mariner.  I spritzed a little of each color on my glass surface, added a small amount of water, then smooshed the paper into the color.  Once my color was on my paper, I added small amounts of water to move the color.  I then used my heat tool to dry the color, spritzed with water, and dabbed up the color with paper towel.  I continued to repeat this process until I was happy with all the layers of color and texture.  In various places I also added Antique Linen distress oxide color.  

Once my panel was complete it was time to stamp.  I chose several sets from my stash to create a variety of texture in the background.  I used 3 shades of dye ink to apply the stamped images.  I stamped in random places around each tag.  

Once the stamping was complete it was time to heat emboss my wildflower silhouette stamps.  I applied WOW embossing ink to each flower image and used my stamping platform to stamp the flowers onto the tags.  I stamped multiple flower images and heat set them using WOW Opaque Vanilla White Powder.  I heat set the powder using my WOW heat tool.  I stamped and embossed several flower images on each tag.  

Once my flowers were embossed I added more texture to sections of the tag edges using embossing ink and powder.  I used 2 colors of powders: Opaque Vanilla White and Burnt Toffee.  I applied these in layers to the edges of the tag panels.  Once these were complete I darkened the edges of each tag using distress inks, as well as archival ink.  I added a few splatters using white and gold watercolors to each tag.  

To complete my tags I added some ephemera.  I also distressed the edges with ink, as well as some embossing powder in Burnt Toffee.  I completed the tags with sentiments from WOW embossing and added some twine to the top to complete my tags!  

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Crafty Hugs!

Natasha

Supplies:

Opaque Vanilla White

Burnt Toffee

WOW Heat Tool

WOW Embossing Ink

Ink Stand

Unity Stamp Sets: Insightful Meadows, Spring Inspired, Worn Grid

Color Fuse Inks – Rubbernecker Stamps