Flower Power Tag Tutorial

Hi friends! We had a lovely weekend here with beautiful weather. I went to an antique and vintage market and had a great time. We also had time for soccer, a bike ride, a walk, and trips to the play ground. I hope your weekend was good too.

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Flower Power theme. Flowers are one of my favorite things to include in projects, almost any time of the year. I am looking forward to seeing all the creations for this challenge. Don't miss the gorgeous project by our April guest designer Paula Roomer aka PaNaRoo.

I made a tag filled with colorful flowers and enjoyed combining flowers in different shapes, colors, and patters. For the flowers, I only used scrap papers from my colorful scrap folder. I have one folder for neutral scrap papers, one for papers that I have colored with various mediums, one for colored cardstock and one for patterned paper scraps. It was the second of these folders that I dug into this week.

I used Tim Holtz Funky Floral 1 and Funky Floral 2 to die cut all the shapes. The papers are a mix of watercolored, stamped, Distress Inked, and acrylic paint scraps. I picked a variety of colors and patterns and die cut lots of flowers and leaves.

Here you can see the two die sets, Funky Floral 1 and Funky Floral 2. There is so much potential in these sets and such a variety of flowers, leaves and stems. You don't need to assemble the flowers as they are in the example on the packaging, instead you can make up you own combinations.

I used the Tonic Craft set to give the flowers some shape and dimension and then layered and glued them together. Don't they look happy?

For the background, I coated a tag with gesso and when dry added some white Texture Paste at the bottom.

When the paste was dry, I painted the tag with Distress Paints and misted heavily with water.

After it dried, the background was stamped with the script stamp from Tim's Entomology set. Later, I also dry brushed the tag with Ground Espresso and Black Soot paint.

The flowers were layered on the tag, tucking leaves and branches in among them. The crinkle ribbon was dyed with Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink.

I used label letters for my title, and Small Talk stickers for my sentiments.

If you look closely at the flowers, you'll see that there is a big mix of colors and patterns. I also really like the tiny blue flowers.

If you have colored backgrounds that didn't turn out as planned, this is a perfect use for them. The Distress Ink reinker background that this flower is die cut from, wasn't a favorite of mine, but as a flower, it looks really nice.

Tuck some of the flowers in among the grass, to give the tag even more dimension.

Here's a better look at the texture paste ground. The dry brushing makes a big difference.

And a look of the happy flowers from the side. This tag is now hanging on my idea-ology Clip Carousel, which is pretty full and always makes me happy to look at. There is a photo of it in this Mixed Media Envelopes post, but it is much fuller now.

I hope you will join us this week in our Flower Power challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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