Mushroom Tag Tutorial

Hello friends! It is Monday and I have an autumn inspired tag to share with you.

We have a Dry Embossing theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog this week. So I hope you will take out your embossing folders or stencils and join us. Since it is the first Monday of a new month, the team is showcasing products from a specific company/designer and this week the turn has come to Tim Holtz and his fantastic range of products. You can find them all here. You don't have to use Tim's products to join, but it is always fun if you do. 

Since it is a new month, we also have a new guest designer, and during October Alison Bomber will be sharing her wonderful projects with us. I hope you will visit her blog Words and Pictures, which is full of inspiration.

We have had beautiful autumn weather lately and I wanted to make a tag inspired by the autumn forest. I take lots of photos of mushrooms and leaves on my walks at the moment. I love embossing folders and can clearly remember how amazed I was the first time I got hold of one, a long time ago. There are so many techniques you can do with them.

Today, I used the beautiful Elegant 3-D Texture Fade by Tim Holtz. The 3-D folders emboss extra deep and also with different depths within the same design. Mist the paper with water first to get an even better result. Isn't it pretty?

Mist the tag with Distress Spray Stains, using yellow, orange, coral and a little metallic. The color will look darker in the grooves.

When dry, splatter the tag with a brown, red and yellow Scribble Stick, by first dipping the stick in water and then flicking a paint brush against it.

Splatter a little White Gloss Spray on the background.

Ink the edges with Ground Espresso.

I wanted some shine and smeared Nebula Stickles, in particular on the embossed parts. This glitter glue also includes gold stars, which gives a great effect.

Pick out some images from the beautiful Field Notes Ephemera pack and ink the edges. I ended up not using the label and the flower.

Add a little Moon Dust Stickles to some areas of the images. I also cut out one of my watercolored Queen Anne's Lace flowers from last week's Autumn Blooms tutorial. It comes from the SSS Laugh in Flowers set.

Dried Marigold Distress Paint was used to make the words on the Thought Token stand out better. 

Shape the wings of the butterfly and staple to the background.

I also added a little Cosmic Shimmer Opal Blaze Polish Gilded Avocado here and there on the embossed parts. 

Die cut Skeleton Leaves from gold paper and layer the mushrooms on top. I used foam tape for some of the mushrooms.

You can see the Cosmic Shimmer on this flower.

I have a bunch of old fibers on my desk and decided to add them to the tag. The sentiments from Tim's Simple Sayings was stamped on a left-over piece from last week's Autumn Blooms card.

The mix of embossing, spray, metallic spray, splatters, stickles and polish makes for an interesting background.

I hope you will join us this week in our Dry Embossing 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.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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