I didn’t do a great job of joining in the swaps last month with being out of action for so much of the month – so I’m starting off quickly this month with my tag for that swap and hopefully will get to do a few other of the swaps soon.
I went with some of the leftover patterned paper from the project at the beginning of the month and covered a large tag I had cut from grey board from old packaging.
I did some outlining of the sections with pen and inked the edge with archival. Then I went for a full rainbow with distress crayons.
I then added the stencilling using white gesso and an Alpaca Pals stencil – plus some splatters of course!. Once dry I added some doodles to the stencilled shapes.
I next added some strips of the spring slimline papers from Kingston Crafts and a scrap of green I die cut using my favourite Hey Little Magpie die.
Next I stamped and embossed the cute MFT images and coloured them with my promarkers. I die cut them out and then die cut them again from scraps to stack them so they are a little more dimensional.
I added them to the tag and then used the Dina Wakely press plates to foil the sentiment and die cut it out with the coordinated die. I just love the foiling – it’s a joy everytime to peel back the foil and see the effect!
To finish off I added the pale yellow gems and the blue and white bakers twine in a double bow.
Such a fun tag and love the rainbow background with the fun patterned paper I transformed with the distress crayons.
Happy crafting!
Catherine
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