Scraps and a Tag Card

  I love tags.  Tags to hang on things.  Tags as stand alone art.  Tags added to a card.  Today I am using more goodies from my scrap bin.

I stamped a tea stained tag with the owl from the Going Wild stamp set.

The little tiny heart is from the Heart-FULL Homes stamp set.

I cobbled some tiny colored paper strips out from the side of the tag and hand-lettered my sentiment.

I added a scrap of ribbon.

And used a brush to brush some color with Perfect Pearls along his feet.

What fun things can you make with some bits and scraps from your scrap box?

Brooke Bock from the Susan K. Weckesser Design Team

Waiting for Spring!

I really don't like the winter much - I spend a lot of time basically hibernating under a blanket waiting for the spring to come! So today I must apologise for my wholly unseasonable tag project!

I was thinking about something my teamie Joyce said when I created this - she was talking about how to use stamps creatively and so my 'flowers' were born. They are actually created using the leaf and feather stamps from Going Wild!

Here's how I made it:
1) Stamp the leaf in pink ink creating a radiating pattern with multiple images. Fill in the gaps between the leaf images with feathers stamped in yellow.

2) Use the star from Unicorns & Rainbows to create a flower centre in each cluster of stamped images.

3) Use a black pen to roughly outline the petals with scribbly lines. Also draw in some swirly curls and teeny circle dots, freehand.

4) Go over the swirls and dots with green watercolour.

5) Stamp the sentiment onto kraft card, cut out in a circle and edge with Susan's Snow ink from Colorbox. Mat the tag onto kraft card edged with the same white ink and finish with ribbon and gems.

Hope this makes you feel a little warmer today!!!

Katy x

Susan K Weckesser products used:

Unity/SKW stamp sets: Going Wild, Unicorns & Rainbows, In My Garden

Colorbox Color Pop/SKW Inks: Snow, Mystery

Going Wild Stamps

Unicorns & Rainbows Stamps

In My Garden

I Care Mixed Media Tag

Hi all

I have a mixed media tag using the Clearsnap Color Pop Mini Inks and Susan K Weckesser Unity Co Branded stamps

I started off by stamping over a white tag with In Circle Me background stamp and then i mixed the white and red inks to make a salmon pink. I painted this on to the background and left the circles blank for now.

I colored in the circles with Ice Blue and mixed Navy Blue and Red together to make purple.

I painted up the MDF mask using DecoArt Fluid Acrylics Magenta and glued it to the tag before coloring in two hearts from the Grunge Hearts stamp set.

I then dribbled some of the magenta paint over the paper flowers which i inked with the colour pop inks. I miked the inks with water and painted them. I used the sentiment from the Bunny Hugs stamp set

A Fun Mixed Media Tag To Make You Smile by Lynne Mizera

Hello Everyone... Lynne Mizera here today wishing you a Happy Fall Day! And I just want to share, "I LOVE FALL!"  The bright, sunny days and the cool, crisp air just makes me Happy.  So when I sat down today to create something "Mixed Media" for my Susan Weckesser creative team post this tag is what appeared... Doesn't it just make you smile?

I used Magenta Nuance pigment powders to create the background and to paint up the Susan K. Weckesser Tumbleweed Houses stamps, of course I added Ranger Stickles and Liquid Pearls until the entire tag just sparkled.  I think this tag would be just lovely on a birthday present instead of a card.

You can see all the steps in my process over at My Blog, where I have been up to my eyebrows in all things Mixed Media this month... (No Really!  I have paint in my eyebrows... Grin)  And I hope I helped to inspire you to try something painty and inky today.

Lynne Mizera
for the Susan K. Weckesser Creative Team

Susan Weckesser products used on this project:

Tumbleweed Houses stamps

 

Going wild art tag with Irit

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my second August post made for Susan K. Weckesser blog.
This time I made a small tutorial for this lovely easy to make tag and it's just great technique for all of us who are not coloring artists.
So here is my tutorial for you:

1. Use Susan K.Weckesser's Unity The Garden Whatnot collection  tag (one of three) and stamp the image over the white cardstock with Susan's ColorBox Color Pop mini Mystery black ink.

2. Stamp the second tag from the very same Unity stamp set with the same ink and punch the 2'' circle with a circle punch (or use a die to die cut the circle).

3. Ink the stamped tag and the punched circle with Susan's ColorBox Color Pop mini inks in Ice and Fresh colors as shown. You can wipe the ink if it's too intensive.

4.Hand cut the basic tag from gold cardstock and add the second tag layer using Susan's Live in Color (backside) cardstock. Ink the patterned cardstock edges with ColorBox Color Pop mini ink in Shimmer (gold).

5. Stamp the owl image from Susan's Going Wild new released stamp set with Shimmer ink and heat emboss it with clear embossing powder. Hand cut the image and ink inside with a light layer of Cocoa Color Pop mini ink.

Stamp the sentiment with the same set and the same Shimmer ink; heat emboss the sentiment with clear powder. Hand cut the sentiment and ink with a light layer of Ice  ink and ink the edges with gold ink.

Arrange the tag as shown. Add a small yellow feather and a lace ribbon on the top of your tag. 

I really hope that you liked my small tutorial and Susan's delicious products!

Grandma's Needlepoint Garden

Deb here with my last post for August - another Art Journal page. I chose to use the Susan K Weckesser stamp set Grandma's Needlepoint since it has always been one of my favorites. I embroidered as a child and then as a teenager. I was quite the hippie and embroidered all over my blue jeans !! My mother and her mother were both excellent seamstresses, so this set also reminds me of them.

To start the page, I swiped inks onto an acrylic block - Ice and Fresh, both from Susan's collection of Clearsnap Colorbox Color POP ink pads. I then applied the inks to my journal page using an ink blending tool and a stencil. The  Tim Holtz Doily stencil has a pattern reminiscent of the doilies on the arms of the chairs at my parent's and grandparent's houses.

The silver pattern on the Left side of the page was created with the Doodle stencil by Susan and modeling paste by Art-C. Inside each circle are flowers that I stamped, colored and fussy-cut. They are from Journal Doodles With A Heart and each are popped up with a dimensional. They are just SO cute !!

Art-C Silver modeling paste

Doodle Stencil by Susan K Weckesser

At the upper and lower corners of the Right side, I used some rub-ons that I have had for many years by  Fancy Pants Designs. The images of the girl, birds, butterflies and sewing stitches were all stamped in Mystery / Colorbox Color POP ink and colored with a variety of Distress Markers, Stabilos and Stampin' Up markers.

For the tag, I used an American Crafts Newspaper Tag and my old friend, Mod Podge / Gloss . I printed the words to the Monet quote, cut them out, then adhered them to the tag with a few coats of Mod Podge. I placed the tag on the journal page with Dimensionals. I hope that you like my last post for August. Art Journaling is out of my comfort zone but I really had fun creating this page. Stay tuned for a new theme in September from Susan's team !!

Stamp Set Used :

Grandma's Needlepoint

Journal Doodles With a Heart

Debra Davison

Susan K Weckesser Creative Team

Live to Create and Create to Live tag

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my very first post made for Susan K. Weckesser blog.

This month we, the designers, were asked to make something with houses. So this is my first post for the theme and I just decided to make a nice and creative tag.

Here is a small tutorial I made for you:

1. Make the basic Kraft cardstock tag and add the second tag, a bit smaller size, made from Susan K. Weckesser cardstock named Color Burst.

 the edges with Susan's new Clearsnap Color Pop Mini inks. On this photo I used the Ice one, but later I added the Kiss ink too.

Glue the cardstock tag over the Kraft one and make a hole on the top for the ribbons.

2. Stamp some flowers with Susan's  Unity Celebration of Simple stamp . This set includes 4 flags, but I just wanted the  flowers for this tag. I used Susan's Color Pop Mini Mystery Archival Dye ink  and I didn't try to make the nice stamping as this is just a background add- ons to the patterned cardstock.

3. Mask Tando flat house shaped chipboards with some tape (washi or painter's one, whatever you have) and stamp the lines with another  Susan's stamp from the same  Celebration of Simple stamp set. This time I used clear embossing ink and heat embossed the roof lines with black embossing powder.

4.Cut two cardstock pieces from Susan' s Color Burst  cardstock (the back side this time) and glue them over the houses front.
Paint the roof of each house with Color Pop  Mini Kiss ink, ink the edges of those houses too and heat emboss with clear embossing powders.

5. From this step and on I didn't make any step by step photos as it's clear visible.
I hand cut two sentiment strips using Susan's Live in Color Tags cardstock and inked the edges with the same Kiss  ink.
The small doors and windows chipboards were heat embossed with white embossing powder and glued over the houses.
I also added the white chipboard fence. Both houses were  adhered over the tag and I added some hand cut cardstock  banners under the sentiment.

The double ribbon was tied on the top.

And yes- in my house I live to create and create to live!

I hope you liked my small tutorial and see you in a few days with another Houses inspiration.

Product list- non Susan K. Weckesser products
Kraft cardstock- craft shop
Chipboards- Tando Creative
Embossing powder- WOW! Embossing Powders
Ribbon- May Arts
Clear embossing ink
Heat gun
Adhesives

#BFF Tag by Shilpa

Hello Everyone,

The Design team at Susan's blog here are sharing quick tags during January.

And I would like to share a tag made with Susan's "Love ya bunches stamp set."

For making this mixed media background

I cut out a tag from Susan's "Live in color" paper. Applied clear gesso on it. And I created hearts texture with stencil and texture paste.

Next, I spritzed Color Box Glacier lake spritzer randomly on the surface, also applied barn door distress paint. I dried the tag with my heat tool. For more texture I stamped hearts with barn door distress ink, and more grunge with grunge stamp and blue archival ink, I have also used stencil designed by Susan to print numbers from it.

I stamped the girl and bird with black archival ink and colored them with watercolor markers. I added few embellishments and my tag was ready.

Hope you are inspired and would like to try this easy peasy tag.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Products Used:

Live,Love,Create paper

Love ya Bunches stamp set

Grunge Fun stamp set

At the Ground Level stamp set:

CW Doodle stencil

Other products: Color BoxSpritzers- Glacier Lake

Barn door distress paint

Watercoor markers