Floral Mixed Media Tag

Hello crafters! STAMPtember® continues at Simon Says Stamp. Today I have a tag to share with dimensional flowers and a mixed media background.

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I wanted a textured background with soil instead of grass at the bottom. The background is easy to make with gesso and Distress Paint. All you need is patience for the gesso and paint to dry. For the flowers, I used Simon Says Stamp Crimped Floral Embossing Folder and Cutting dies and combined it with a stem die from another flower set.

Start by coating the tag with gesso using a palette knife. Create soil at the bottom and press and lift the knife into the gesso to create texture. Make lines into the gesso at the top with the palette knife. When the gesso is dry, paint with Distress Paint and mist with water to blend.

Die cut one of the four flowers from watercolor paper. I like the shape of this flower.

Mist the flowers with water and emboss in the coordinating folder. You can dry emboss more than one flower at once.

Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet and mist with water. Watercolor the flowers with a paint brush.

Die cut the stems from Simon Says Stamp Iceland Poppies, also from watercolor paper.

Watercolor with Distress Ink.

The sentiments were stamped with Simon Says Stamp Just Because Background stamp and cut into strips. The paper had been inked with Antique Linen and Frayed Burlap Distress Ink.

Give the flowers some shape and then glue them to the background. Add a Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Gems to the flowers.

Scorched Timber turns into a gorgeous grey/brown shade when mixed with blues.

If you want to, you can make the flowers even more dimensional by layering more than one flower.

The stems were colored in shades of green and blue so that they would partly blend into the background and let flowers shine.

The paint moves along the textures of the gesso creating interesting effects. 'Thinking of you' also comes from the Just Because background stamp.

May Arts Faux Silk Ribbon was dyed with Distress Ink to coordinate with the tag.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! See you again soon!

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Thank you so much for stopping by here today! Have a good weekend!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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