eclectic Paperie blog hop...

congrats to Kim at eclectic Paperie on her first birthday!

she doesn't look a day over...9 months!

here's a message from Kim...

ohhh...there are PRIZES involved!

PAY ATTENTION my friends!

Welcome to eclectic Paperie's Belated Birthday Bash!  Today we're celebrating the (belated) one year anniversary of the store's new ownership! It's been an amazing year, full of inspiring projects, wonderful classes, and many, many new products!!  eclectic Paperie wouldn't be where it is today without the ongoing support of our customers and as a BIG thank you you'll have an opportunity to lots of great prizes!  

now...back to me...

I showed the start of this tag on the previous post...

so here's a quick recap...

I used the blending tool to create my background with the distress paints...

the more I use the distress paints, the more I LOVE them...

yes...

all CAPS...

LOVE 

THEM!

I used broken china, peeled paint & rusty hinge...

when the paints were dry, I inked over the tag with rusty hinge on the blending tool, then misted water thru my polka dotty stencil to create another layer in the background...

the water lifts only the distress ink (since distress reacts with water) and does not affect the distress paints, since they are waterproof when dry...

next, I used antique linen distress paint to stencil the dots from the dots/stripes border stencil on the left side of the tag...

once the dots were dry, I used fern green archival to stamp the flourishes. there's one large flourish stamped & 3 small flourish stampings...

make sure to dry the archival, since it's used over the paint...

I used the same dots/stripes stencil to add borders at the top & bottom of the tag, with orange blossom archival...again...make sure to dry...

I stamped the sentiment with jet black archival...

I LOVE how it pops!

and now the tag looks like this...

 oops...forgot to say at the beginning that I cut this tag to 5 1/2 inches tall...

I always say that stamps are versatile, but guess what?

stencils really are too...

they don't always need to be stenciled flat in the background...

and you don't always have to use them with embossing paste either...

here's how to use stencils to create sturdy dimensional embellishments, that you can customize with any color your project requires...

paint a thin layer of Glue N Seal onto one side of Clearly For Art, then cover with a vintage dictionary page, brayer & dry...

use the fancy flower stencil once with orange blossom archival & the second time with red geranium archival...

you can apply the inks with a blending tool or you can use Cut N Dry foam...

I used the smaller stencil flower for this tag, but either will work just fine, depending on the size of your base...

make sure to stencil on the paper side...

NOT the plastic side...

cut out the stenciled flowers...

the red is the full flower...

for the orange layer, I cut off the outside petals to make a smaller flower layer...

I'm loving the red geranium/orange blossom combo...

I also die cut 2 of the smallest flowers from the tattered florals die, using scraps of the CFA that was covered with the same paper...

I used red geranium with my reverse dots background to stamp over the 2 small flowers...

once the archivals were dry, I inked over all 4 flowers with scattered straw on a blending tool, to tone down the stark white dictionary paper...

I heated the flowers to soften the Clearly For Art, then shaped them...

***REMEMBER***...CFA can be reheated & reshaped many times...

so, if you're not happy with the flower, just blast it again with the heat-it tool & shape it again...

the art parts leaves were stamped with this New York stamp...

then inked over with scattered straw...

the New York stamp has great graphics & it's fun to use just portions of the stamp this way...

and here's the finished tag...

I like that the flower looks like a paper flower & it IS!

but...with the Clearly For Art under the paper it is very strong & sturdy...

2 gold berry centers from Blossom Bucket create the flower centers...

a little pen stitching & glaze pen dots on the borders...

DONE!

I LOVE the fall-ish colors with the pop of red geranium!

red geranium will be AWESOME for all holidays...

just you wait & see...

now back to Kim...and the prize info...

eclectic Paperie will be giving away the following prizes!  You have until midnight tomorrow (9/20) to comment.

 A full set of Tim's NEW Distress Paints

6x6 Paper Pad Bundle

Dylusions Stencil Bundle

A set of NEW Wendy Vecchi Archival Inks (yippee)

Crafter's Workshop Stencil Bundle

 To be entered into the prize drawing, please be sure to comment on the eclectic Paperie blog and on each of the eTeam blogs.  Check out all of the thumbnail links below to view the rest of the eTeam projects!  Enjoy the hop!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial & that you'll get out your supplies and...

make art!

wendy

ps... happy hopping!