Sea Journey Etcetera Tag Tutorial

Hello friends! We had a fun weekend here. My dad visited and we did some outings, such as going to a lake to swim. Because of the unusually warm May weather, the water is already pretty warm. We also had a whole bunch of soccer related activities. 

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Masculine theme. Don't miss the last project by our May guest designer Alison Bomber.

I told the story of one of my relative's adventures at sea on a tag, using stamps, dies and words. The base is a Tim Holtz Medium Etcetera tag, which is very sturdy, almost like wood, and bigger than you might think (12 x 6.5 in). I don't always check the size of things when I order products and I was happily surprised to see how big the tags are. Lots of space!

After giving the tag a coat of gesso, I painted it with Distress Paint, aiming for the look of an old painted and worn wood plank.

Some of the stamps were stamped on tissue paper and then adhered to the background - with one layer of glossy multi-medium below the tissue paper, and one on top. These were the images where I wanted the stamping to be as good as possible (the ship, map and journey word), while I wanted a more distressed look to the rest of the stamping and stamped directly on the background. All the stamps are by Tim Holtz.

A little Faded Jeans paint was mixed into embossing paste and applied through a stencil. I also used black paint and paste through a word stencil, and smeared the left over blue paste under the ship as waves. I smeared the left-over black paste around the edges of the board, also giving the edges a rough feel.

When the paste was dry, I stamped it randomly with a grid stamp.

I painted the boat with Distress Paint, darkened the edges and dry brushed brown, white and silver paint on the paste areas. The background needed a little more red, and I stamped dots with Candied Apple paint.

The tag was embellished with some idea-ology pieces and ephemera papers. Here you can see the silver dry brushing on top of the word.

Alcohol ink was used to color the Gumdrop Hearts. I also used a whole bunch of die cut gears. They were die cut from a paper that had been misted with various Distress Spray Stains, also including metallic sprays.

A big metallic gear was glued to the circle and I tied the tag with Linen Ribbon.

The relative in question was an electrician, which is why I stamped the bulbs here and there.

The gears have a cool texture and some of them are very metallic looking. The ephemera tag was sanded, torn and inked.

This stamp comes from the Traveling Friends set.

By dry brushing on top of paste areas, you can easily increase the texture and make the paste look even more interesting.

I like these metallic idea-ology numbers.

This ship stamp is a favorite of mine and I have used it quite many times before. I really like the perspective of the stamp and how the boat almost comes into the project.

Here's a closer look at the texture of the waves under the boat.

I hope you will join us this week in our Masuline 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.

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

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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