Lily of the Valley tag

Hello crafters! Today I have a sweet tag to share with Lily of the Valley flowers. These pretty flowers are flowering here at this time of the year. 

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I wanted a tag with a soft, yet textured look and decided to paint the background with watercolors and then dry emboss it. The flowers were die cut from a variety of paper: watercolor paper, white Neenah and Simon Says Stamp new Ice Vellum paper.

I started out with a watercolored background and cut a tag from it. Mist the back with water and dry emboss in Simon Says Stamp Spun Glass. I really like this embossing folder.

Distress the edges and add some ink to the tag with an ink-blending tool, to increase the texture.

I wanted some sparkle too and used Stickles here and there on the background.

The Simon Says Stamp Lily Of the Valley Stem was die cut from left-over green watercolored paper, white Neenah cardstock and Simon Says Stamp Ice Vellum. 

Add green ink to the green die cuts and blue ink to the white flowers and the vellum flowers. 

Shape the flowers a little with Tim Holtz Shaping Tool Kit. 

Glue the vellum stems at the back and the green ones on top. Then glue the white flowers and finally add a vellum flower on top of each white flower. 

I also added Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Opal Gems to the tag. The sentiments come from Tim Holtz Tiny Text.

At the bottom I added a piece of fabric from a curtain projects from years ago. I found some older boxes of scraps and bits and pieces in my recent move, which are fun to use now. 

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial!

Thank you for visiting! See you again tomorrow!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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