Many Hearts Tag Tutorial

Hello friends! I hope you are well and that you had a good weekend. On Saturday the sun was shining and I went for a long walk along a lake. Yesterday we had a fun outing to town.

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This week our theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog is Hearts. I hope you will join us! And don't miss the last project by our January guest designer Rox.

I made a tag with many hearts: crackle paste hearts in the background and dimensional hearts fluttering across the tag, almost like butterflies. I also found some very old heart beads on my desk, which I added to the tag. If you don't want to make a tag, the techniques work just as well for cardmaking. If you make the hearts less dimensional, they will also fit into an art journal or on a scrapbooking page.

Start by applying gesso to a tag. When dry, apply Opaque Crackle Paste through Tim Holtz Hearts stencil with a palette knife. Let dry and crackles will appear.

Paint the tag with Dried Marigold, Abandoned Coral and a tiny bit of Candied Apple. Mist heavily with water to blend and let dry.

Apply white Distress Crayon to the hearts and rub into the hearts with your finger. For a more distressed look, use a brown or gray crayon instead.

Die cut three hearts from Clearly For Art Modeling Film. You might need to use a pair of scissors to cut all the way through the hearts, since the film is quite thick. I used Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Folding Heart and Window.

I had a piece of already prepared text paper from another project. Glue old book paper to watercolor paper. Add a layer of matte medium on top of the paper too and let dry. Cover partly with gesso. These papers make for great background elements, with just enough texture. Die cut three hearts.

Color the Modeling Film hearts on the back with Distress Ink. Pounce with alcohol ink blending solution to add texture.

Stamp the front of the hearts with Simon Says Stamp Not Quite a Dot.

Shape the paper hearts. Gently apply heat to the Modeling Film hearts and shape them. The film will keep its shape perfectly. Be careful so that you don't burn yourself.

I die cut the You Matter word from Simon Says Stamp White Glossy Cardstock and inked it with Melon and Cantaloupe Pawsitively Saturated inks. The mat was die cut from the text collage paper.

Staple the hearts to the background. 

As you can see, the hearts are quite dimensional.

The text show through without taking over.

I added ribbons and lace trim under the sentiment and adhered it with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape.

The white crayon adds texture to the crackle hearts. I glued some sequins to the tag to, using Simon Says Stamp Place and Score Wand.

You can do the same Modeling Film technique with other dies or stamped images too: butterflies, flowers, birds and more.

I hope you will join us this week in our Hearts 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 stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Story Time Tag with Minibooks

Hello friends! Today I have a fun Halloween tag to share, with a story time theme and five tiny dimensional books.

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I love to read and I read a lot of different kinds of stories. I had such fun making the tiny books on this tag and adding titles and other details. The entire background of the tag is filled with words and sentences, from Tim Holtz Halloween sticker books.

The books have real pages and quite a bit of dimension.

Start by covering an entire tag with clippings stickers from Tim Holtz Halloween sticker book. Coat with Matte Medium. Try to vary the stickers when it comes to size and color.

Scribble Distress Crayons all over the tag, and then remove most of it with a slightly moist cloth. Add more until you are happy with the look.

The tiny book covers come from Tim Holtz Halloween 2023 Ephemera Pack. Fold along the spine, sand the edges and then ink. 

Tear the pages from an old book and fold in half to form a signature. Use a ruler when tearing to get a straight, but still torn, edge. Add enough signatures in each book to fill them and glue with Simon glue along the spine. Ink the edges of the pages a little.

Stamp and die cut a label from Simon Says Stamp Mixed Labels and the coordinating die set. The label was stamped on Tim Holtz Halloween Backdrops paper. Ink the edges. The remaining two sentiments were stamped on heavystock paper which was inked with Salvaged Patina. 

The ribbon was dyed with Salvaged Patina and Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. 

I added titles to the book from the Halloween Sticker Book and a spider from Tim's idea-ology Spiders & Branches Adornments. 

The bats were die cut from black kraft core paper with Tim's Big Frights set.

These two are my favorites of the book covers. 

You could also add blank pages to the books and write your own words in them, or stamp tiny sentiments.

The torn edges adds a nice texture and old feeling to the books.

The little books can also be made in other themes and added to a card, or placed in a tiny bookshelf. I did something similar to that on this bookshelf project. 

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! See you soon again.

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Coneflowers Art Journal Page

Hi friends! I have an art journal tutorial to share today, but it can also easily be turned into a card instead. 

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I used the Simon Says Stamp Bee Happy Card Kit for this art journal page, working in my Small Creative Journal. Apart from the ink and the crackle stamp, everything else comes from the kit. If the kit has sold out, you can get the products separately. You can also do the same technique with other stencils.

Ink the page with Antique Linen.

Ink through the first Retro Flowers layering stencil using Distress Inks and an ink-blending tool.

Ink the stems with green ink.

Apply Vintage Photo Distress Crayon through the fourth stencil. I didn't use the third stencil.

Stamp the honeycomb from Simon Says Stamp Bee Happy with oxide ink.

Stamp sentiments and bees with Potting Soil ink.

Add texture with Simon Says Stamp Crackle Background and Potting Soil ink. I had stamped the main sentiment on a piece of patterned paper from the kit too, but decided to keep the stamping that was done on the page, even though it wasn't perfect. I had planned to cover it up with the sentiment stamped on the paper strip.

Add highlights and details with a black and a white pen, ink around the edges with brown ink and add soil with the brown crayon.

You can skip the pen marks on the flowers if you want to.

This Retro Flower Layering Stencil is great and I love the look of these coneflowers.

I added just a bit of the white gel pen on the wings of the bees and colored their bodies with pencils.

The crackles add just a bit of texture.

Even though I missed up the stamping of this sentiment, it fitted better on the page than the cover-up stamping that I did on a paper strip. I also like the texture in the honeycombs.

Wise words.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! See you soon again.

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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