Thursday, August 11, 2016

Mini Tag Journal Using At Ground Level Stamp Set from Susan K. Weckesser

Hello Folks!

I am thrilled to show you this fast and easy tag book I made this month.

I am still enjoying my new studio space. It is a great place to create. Many of my supplies and tools are right at my fingertips which makes creating easy and fun.

I started by stamping some shipping tags with

Colorbox® Color Pop Premium Dye Ink by Susan K. Weckesser in Fresh. For the first one I stamped directly on the tag. For subsequent ones I stamped my acrylic block and then pressed my tag onto it. I used a baby wipe to smear the color all over the tag before it dried (and to clean up my block). Then I wadded up my tag and smoothed it out.

Next, I used stamps from the At Ground Level set to stamp each tag. I added word stamps from the An Artful Ornament stamp set for one of the pages as well.

Then I just had fun by adding some extras with the Doodle Stencil, trims, and some more of the

Colorbox® Color Pop Premium Dye Inks by Susan K. Weckesser. I used a tassel from my trims box and a piece of ribbon I removed from some flowers to loosely tie the tags together.

This would be such a fun project to do with your kids one afternoon.

I love shipping tags. I buy them by the huge boxful from office supply stores.

I often tea dye them though I actually use coffee. I also dye them using dye and a ziploc bag. I do them in large batches so they are ready to go when inspiration hits.

For this project I used:

Lace scraps

yarn scraps

pieces of ribbons

Colorbox® Color Pop Premium Dye Inks by Susan K. Weckesser

At Ground Level Stamp Set

An Artful Ormanment Stamp Set

glue/adhesive

Scissors

Brooke Bock, member of the 2016 Susan K. Weckesser Design team.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

#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.