Happy Yellow Flowers Tag

Hello friends! I hope you had a fun weekend. Here it was raining almost the whole weekend, but today the sun is out again.

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This week we have a Beautiful Blooms theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the lovely project by our March guest designer Simona Rebecchi.

I was inspired to create a floral tag with spring-time colors. I haven't seen any of the yellow spring flowers yet, but they will soon be here. I used a stencil, gesso, texture paste and watercolors for the background. I was also happy to use Tim Holtz Handwritten Love, which is one of four Handwritten sets that have just been re-released. The four sets have very versatile and useful words in a nice handwritten style.

The tag was coated with gesso and when the was dry, I applied texture paste through Tim Holtz Floral stencil.

The background was painted with watercolor paint. I used watercolors from Daniel Smith. If needed, you can wipe some of the paint off from the flowers.

Let dry, and then paint the flowers with yellow watercolor paint. 

Paint the leaves and stems with Cascade Green.

I also added some Distress Mustard Seed watercolor pencil to the flowers to deepen the yellow. Mustard Seed was also splattered on the background.

I die cut the title from Simon Says Stamp Lemon Glitter cardstock and black cardstock using Tim Holtz Handwritten Love.

One of my favorite parts with creating dies, is picking the ribbons, twine, fibers and so on, to tie the tag with. Some of these have been in my stash for a very long time. I just noticed that the yellow, green and blue ribbon has twisted. The blue part is dots on the right side of the ribbon.

The sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Wildflower Cuttings and was stamped on left-over grey watercolored paper.

The combination of gesso, texture paste, watercolor paint and splatters gives a background with interesting textures.

I am happy to see these handwritten dies return. Almost like meeting an old friend again.

I also added Simon Says Stamp Sunbeam Pawsitively Dazzling Gems.

You can of course do the background technique with many different types of stencils.

Join us this week in our Beautiful Blooms challenge! You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. 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 today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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