Poinsettia Tag Tutorial

Hello crafters! It is Monday again and I hope you had a good weekend. This month went by so fast.

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We have a 'Party' theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog this week and this challenge will run for two weeks. Don't miss the project by our December guest designer Susan Babcock aka SusanBCards.

I decided to do a tag celebrating the joy of Christmas, being very much in a Christmas mood after having helped to organise four big, traditional Christmas markets. On our table, we have two poinsettias, which is why that image fitted well and I really like poinsettias. I used Tim Holtz The Poinsettia stamp set.

Start by cutting a tag from watercolor paper and stamp the poinsettia with waterproof ink.

Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush. 

Paint the background in the same way.

Smear Distress Inks on a craft sheet, mist with water and lightly press the tag into the ink, using the darker inks only around the edges. Let dry in between layers.

Continue, but this time with Distress Oxide inks.

I die cut a rosette with Tim's Christmas 2021 Vault Series die set. The background was also stamped with my favorite stamp from his Winter Watercolors 2 set and with the music background from The Poinsettia.

I added shading with colored pencils and highlights with a white gel pen, aiming for a lose look.

Stamp a label with Simon Says Stamp Mixed Labels set and red ink on left-over Backdrops paper. 

The Mirrored Stars were colored with red alcohol ink.

I hope you will join us this week in our Party challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. This challenge runs over two weeks. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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