UK Stampers Forum – decorated tag swap

Decided to join in with the decorated tag swap over at UK stampers forum again. Although this is a December swap because we don’t actually swap until Jan I went floral rather than festive with my design.

I started with a tag cut from waste packaging and covered it with patterned paper that was sitting on the desk waiting for use – turns out its use was this tag!

When I was covered I inked the edge with Tranquil Tide ink as I felt that went with the colour of the paper. Then I stamped some leaf stamps all around the edge in versamark and embossed with the dark green powder.

I know it ended up pretty much covered up but up close you can see the texture if nothing else.

Then I took some bookprint and stamped lots of the flowers which were in a magazine kit. I then coloured them using my paint brush, water and ink. I chose a few colours of pink to make them look more interesting and try and keep similar to the colour of the background paper.

I fussy cut them out (they were easy shapes to cut) and then glued them down. I added the die cut leaves which were pre diecut from scraps and with the two colours of green I used this kept them similar but also fun. I also liked them going both under and over the flowers.