Fantasy Dragon Tag

Hello stampers! STAMPtember® continues at Simon Says Stamp with daily inspiration and surprises. Tim Holtz has created an exclusive set for STAMPtember®, and it is fantastic. I am sharing a project I did with it today.

The stamp set comes with a great star stencil. As all the other exclusive STAMPtember® sets, it's a once off opportunity, so if you want it, you need to order it before it runs out.

The STAMPtember exclusive set is meant to be a Halloween set, but I thought the fun characters had a fantasy / storybook feel to them too. We read a lot of children's books and tell a lot of stories, so the stamp characters immediately made me think of story time. I made a tag about a mischievous dragon who jumped out of a storybook, or was created by a child's fantasy. If you rather want to make a Halloween project, just change the colors and sentiments. 

Here you can see all the stamps and sentiments in the set. Aren't they fun? The exclusive set comes with a gorgeous star spiral stencil, which will also be great for Christmas projects.

Smear texture paste through the stencil with a palette knife.

When the paste is dry, paint with Distress Paints and mist quite heavily with water.

I wanted the stars to be more visible and gave them several coats of white paint, applied through the stencil with a mini round ink blending tool.

Add some silver paint here and there.

Stamp the dragon on the smooth back of the Ranger watercolor paper.

Smear green Distress Inks on a craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush. Color the dragon.

Die cut the book and the keys from Tim's Regions Beyond set. I love the fine details in this set, and many of the designs work just as well for non-Halloween projects. 

Ink with Distress Inks.

Use an embossing ink and emboss the keys with Gunmetal powder. Be careful not to burn yourself and never touch the powder until it is completely cool.

I glued some cheese cloth under the dragon, as if he or she is floating on a cloud.

Fold a piece of design tape over on itself and use that as a tie for the tag. 

The dragon is using a key to open or close the book, or maybe to turn the pages. I also added a couple of clippings stickers from the Curiosities sticker book.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today!  

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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