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Monday, May 25, 2020

Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial


Hello friends! I hope you are well! We had a good weekend, with mostly sunny weather. Yesterday, Leo and I went on a partly new walk which included ice cream, cows, a new playground and a fun old fashioned water-pump.

Today I have a shaker tag to share with you, which can easily be turned into a card instead, or you could just use one or two of the techniques and skip the shaker part.


At the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have a Going Around In Circles theme this week. I love circles, so this was a great theme for me. Don't miss the last project by our May guest designer Cath Wilson, with her gorgeous blog Inky Fingers 

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

I made a circle shaker tag and also included circles in other forms, sequins, doodled circles and stamps. One of the great things about circles is that they can be combined in countless ways, bigger and smaller circles, solid and open circles and circles in any other form. For the background and the windows I used Distress Ink, Distress Oxide Ink and alcohol ink. Let start with the tutorial.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Die cut with the Repeating Circle die.

Die cut the SSS Repeating Circles from a tag.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Die cut another two tags from Clear Modeling Film or acetate.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Ink with Distress Ink.

Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet and press the tag into the ink. Continue until you are happy with the look.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Ink with Distress Oxide Ink.

When the Distress Ink is dry, continue in the same way with Distress Oxide ink, but only touching the tag to the ink. Dry the tag in between.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Place one of the acetate tags on top of the paper tag so that you see where the window till be. Color with alcohol ink using a felt applicator. Then add a few tiny drops of Alcohol Blending Solution to each circle (this is why we want to see where the windows will be).

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Turn the tag around, place the paper tag on top and stamp circles, flowers and sentiments in the circles.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Stamp the background.

Stamp the paper tag with a dot stamp and Forget-me-not ink.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Adhere the colored modeling film tag to the paper tag and then place foam tape around the windows. Fill with Tim Holtz mica flakes and place the second modeling film tag on top to create a sandwich.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

The tags are backed by a white tag which was misted with homemade glimmer mist. Place a tiny bit of Perfect Pearls into a mini mister and fill with water.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Color the sequins.

I wanted to repeat the orange from the snail, but didn't have orange sequins. Instead, I colored SSS Moonshine sequins with orange alcohol ink.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Doodle circles and dots with a white gel pen.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Color with Prismacolor pencils.

The cute snail from Under the Sea Animals was stamped on white paper and colored with Prismacolor pencils. Then I added white highlights with the gel pen. Adhere it with foam tape.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Doodle a trail for the snail and stamp a sentiment.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

If you remove the white backing tag, which was just tied to the main tag, the windows are see-through. It looks really cool, but some of the detail is less visible.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Mica flakes shaker.

With a white surface underneath, you see the inking in the windows better.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

Shake the tag and the mica flakes move around.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

The mica flakes gives a really nice shimmer and work great for shakers.

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

If you don't have sequins in the right color, you can always use alcohol ink to color them.  

Layers of ink - Circle Shaker Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.

I hope you will join us this week in our Going Around In Circles challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 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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1 comment:

  1. What a cute tag, Anna-Karin. I'm sure the shaker is even neater in real life. The background work is so pretty. I love how the inks blend together to create that watercolour effect. Really nice. TFS.
    Thank you for your comments on my Maggie layout. I really appreciate it.

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