Rustic Wilderness Tag

Hi everyone! I hope you are well. Today I have a tag tutorial to share, made with Tim Holtz new Rustic Wilderness Distress color. The rustic wilderness is very much my place and I love the name of the color. My tag has a forest theme. This weekend I took two long forest walks. Both were in fairly misty and grey weather, but the forest is beautiful in any weather.

I love green and Rustic Wilderness is a gorgeous shade of green, somewhere in between Mowed Lawn and Peeled Paint. I have done tags with the other new Distress colors too. It is a fun way of trying out the new color and I like the monochromatic look. You can find the Speckled Egg tag here and the Crackling Campfire tag here.

Start by white embossing the large tree from Tim's Winterscape set and then only the trees from the stamp with the cabin. The pine-cone was stamped in the top right corner and the dots here and there as snow/rain/mist.

Smear Pumice Stone and Rustic Wilderness on a craft sheet, mist with water and press the tag into the ink.

When the ink is dry, repeat the process with only Rustic Wilderness Distress Ink and then again with just a little Distress Oxide Ink. This adds texture and layers.

Ink the stamps with Rustic Wilderness, mist with water and over stamp, offsetting them a little to create a shadow effect.

Emboss a Theories Quote Chip with Rustic Wilderness Embossing Glaze. 

Dye a piece of mummy cloth with Rustic Wilderness Spray Stain.

All these shades of green come from Rustic Wilderness.

The Thought Token was painted with a little Rustic Wilderness Distress Paint and the words highlighted with white.

These tree stamps from Winterscape are really nice. I have a thing for tree stamps.

I picked some Clippings Stickers to go with the sentiment and feel of my tag.

I also die cut branches with the Funky Floral 2 die, from white heavystock paper. They were inked in the same way as the background of the tag.

This is one of my favorite sentiments. It comes from J.R.R. Tolkien. 

The Distress Oxide ink gives an blue effect and the opaque look adds to the layered effect.

And one last look at the textures.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy Christmas crafting!

Anna-Karin

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