May Flowers Tag

Hello friends! I hope you had a lovely Easter! We have had gorgeous weather and have done lots of nice outings. Spring flowers are coming out everywhere and the leaves of the trees will come next. The latter might be my favorite part of spring, because all of a sudden, you have these fantastic shades of green everywhere. Those shades of green also inspired today's project.

 

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Going Around in Circles theme. Dots and circles are some of my favorite elements and I am looking forward to seeing all the contributions. Remember to check out the project by our April guest designer Sabrina Perna. 

I made a tag inspired by May Flower pins. May Flower pins have been sold in Sweden since 1907, and the proceeds go to children in need. Every year the flowers have new colors, and lots of people collect them. We used to sell them when I was in school, and paper flowers for a good cause is of course a favorite of mine. :) On the tag, this year's flower is the focal point, surrounded by shades of green and bits of golden yellow. 

I started out by smearing embossing paste on a tag, through Tim Holtz's Gradient Dot stencil.

When the paste is dry, paint with watered-down Distress Paints. Mist with more water if needed.

When the paint was dry, I misted the tag with Buttercup mica spray, and did the same to the mulberry paper skeleton leaf. It makes it look like the leaf has been sprinkled with gold.

Apply glue with a glue stick around the edges and press a sheet of vintage gold foil on top, rub to transfer the foil.

The title letters were die cut from SSS Glimmery Sunshine paper, using the Archie Jr Solid die set. The die set is from the newest Blossoms and Butterflies release, and I also used it in two different ways in this post.

The circle elements were die cut using a SSS set that I discovered is no longer available, but you can get the same effect by die cutting circles in different shapes with other dies. There are lots of circle designs among the Simon Says Stamp exclusive collections. I applied glue on two of the circles and rubbed with the gold foil. This mimicked the pearl in the center of the flower perfectly.

The other circles were colored with Distress Inks.

The glimmery yellow numbers and letters were matted on white die cuts, to make them stand out better. I also used a Clippings Sticker.

Around the circle, I added pearls and Acrylic Bubbles, through which you can see the leaf.

The title translates to 'May Flowers'. The best thing with alphabet dies is that you can write any thing you would like, and you never run out of letters.

Here you can see the effect of the foil. It looks like gold leaf.

This year's flower is green and cream with a yellow center.

The tag and the leaf are very shiny, and you might see that better here.

I hope you will join us this week in our Going Around in Circles 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 so much for taking the time to visit my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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