Monday, April 22, 2019

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

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. May flowers.

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. 

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Dot Gradient stencil by Tim Holtz.

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

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Paint with acrylic paint.

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

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Mist with mica spray.

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.

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Add gold foil.

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

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Die cut letters.

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.

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Gold foil.

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.

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

The other circles were colored with Distress Inks.

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

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

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

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

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Add letters.

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.

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

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

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Majblomma 2019.

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

Layers of ink - Textured Green Background Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

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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Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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10 comments:

  1. Gorgeous tag Anna-Karin :-) I love the lime green and lemon yellow together, so zesty and yummy! the whole idea of selling flower pins to raise money for charity is awesome and I love that you used this years colours! I have never heard of this before but wish more countries copied this idea! :-)

    Hope you have a great week!
    luv
    Lols XXX

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  2. Love love love all of those glorious spring greens, Anna-Karin! I love looking for the new leaves in the spring. Love all the texture and circles! hugs, Maura

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  3. Amazing mixed media tag!!! Wow!! Your creative works always make me blowing up, and this one isn't an exception!! :) A lot of wonderful details to see and awesome colours and textures!

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  4. You are so skilled at using die cuts! I admire the way you're able to pull them together so effectively and cohesively!

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  5. Wow, what an amazing tag! I love the stencilled circle background that you created with the embossing paste and the colour of the sprays look amazing 😁. Happy weekend! J 😊 x

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  6. I really like the way you have used yellow and green together, Anna-Karin. Specially since they are the national colours of Australia - where I'm from :)

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  7. I so love all this yellow and green together - a marvelous Tag! TFS

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  8. This is how the Spring project should look like, I love the fresh greens mixed with yellow, this colors reminds me the first spring grass, so wild and vibrant. Love your background and all the cirles and dots you incorporated.

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  9. Your skill to create monochrome project is incredible! Love this tag and its design! Colors you used are absolutely stunning! Barbara

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