Pumpkin Stack Tag

Hello friends! Today I have a tag to share with Simon Says Stamp new Holiday Cheer release. 

Please note: this post has affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you.

It is a great release for holiday crafting!

I really like pumpkins. They have fun shapes and you can make them in many different colors. It is okay if not all of them are natural looking. Pumpkins also have great textures. Here I decided to create a whole bunch and stack them on a tag.

I used Simon Says Stamp Autumn Cornucopia from the Holiday Cheer release. Die cut many pumpkins from various inky or watercolored papers. 

Shape with Tim Holtz Shaping Tools.

Glue the stems to the pumpkins. I cut off parts of the stems for the smallest pumpkins.

Clear emboss Tim Holtz Nordic background on a heavystock tag.

Ink with Distress Ink. The embossing will resist the ink. 

I dyed May Arts Faux Wrinkled Silk Ribbon in three shades of Distress Ink and also added some twine. The sentiment comes from Tim Holtz Tiny Text.

Start stacking the pumpkins from the bottom, with the largest pumpkins first. Adhere with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape. I added lace and twine at the bottom, as a table cloth. 

Continue with the next size, tucking them under the tops of the first layers. Later, I die cut more of the smallest pumpkins and added them here and there.

Finish the stack with the smallest pumpkins. 

Thank you for stopping by here today! More holiday crafting will follow soon.

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

* Please note: the links are affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you.

Colorful Paper Mushrooms

Hi crafters! Today I have a fun project to share, filled with colorful paper mushrooms. I made a small wall hanger, but you can also make a card or a tag.

Please note: this post has affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you.

I had this idea of wanting to fill something with colorful mushrooms in different sizes, using mainly, but not only, autumn colors. The base is a wood panel in size 2.7x7.1 in. You can also use cardstock, mat board or a tag. The mushrooms were die cut from very inky and textured papers and I also stamped even more texture on some of them. The inky papers are useful for many types of projects.

Start with a layer of gesso and make marks with a palette knife. Let dry.

Apply texture paste through Simon Says Stamp Bubbles stencil.

When dry, paint with watered-down Distress Paint.

Stamp with Tim Holtz School Desk, alphabet stamp.

Mist the background with Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Spritz. 

Next, the inky papers, which require a bit of patience. Smear Distress Ink on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press Ranger Heavystock cardstock into the ink. Let dry. 

Repeat with orange and purple shades.

When the paper is dry, repeat the process and let dry again. 

Repeat the inking steps again until you are happy with the look. For the last layers, I used mainly darker inks and only lightly patted the paper into the ink. The final layer is Distress Oxide Ink, which you only want to get here and there. Don't press the paper into the ink, only lightly touch the ink, to get more texture.

Die cut Simon Says Stamp Mushroom Stems from the inky papers. I also added a few similar papers from my scrap pile. 

Do the same with Simon Says Stamp Tall Mushrooms.

White emboss the dot pattern from Tim Holtz Grunged on most of the mushrooms. Stamp some of them with Simon Says Stamp Crackle Background, using a darker shade of ink.

Die cut a whole lot of mushrooms using Simon Says Stamp Pocket Full of Mushrooms. 

Shape them with Tim Holtz Shaping Tool kit and add Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape under the cap of the larger mushrooms. I used some of these on yesterday's Sunflower Garden project.

Shape the larger mushrooms too and add foam tape under all the caps.

I added Tim Holtz Small Talk stickers as sentiments.

The background has lots of texture and shimmer. You can see how the Distress Spritz have formed halos around the texture paste dots. 

There is Distress Spritz on some of the inky papers too. I used up left over spritz which had ended up on the stencils during yesterday's Sunflower Garden project. 

The color and texture of the mushrooms looks great all together. 

The white embossing adds a lot of texture and also makes the mushrooms look a little poisonous. These mushrooms should not be eaten. 

I tucked in Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Opal Gems here and there.

I tied organza and twine under the mushrooms. There is also cheese cloth behind them, dyed with the same colors Distress Ink as used on the background.

I adhered some of the mushrooms with foam tape and glued the rest. The project is quite dimensional.

Thank you for visiting my blog today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

* Please note: the links are affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you.

Inky Floral Tag Tutorial

 Hello friends! I hope all is well with you and that you had time to craft over the weekend. 

Please note: this post has affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you.

It is Monday and this week we have a Make a Background theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the wonderful project by our September guest designer Debbie Emmons.

I love to make my own backgrounds and there are so many techniques that can be used for backgrounds, and combined too. Here I made a stamped and inky background, using embossed resist in different colors. The background is also the main focus of the tag.

Start by white embossing the leaves and stems from Simon Says Stamp To Friendship. The set is from the STAMPtember® release.

Stamp one of the flower stamps with Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide Ink and clear emboss.

Repeat with Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide. I also stamped both flower stamps again with embossing ink and embossed with clear powder one more time. 

White emboss the sentiments from Simon Says Stamp To Friendship.

Smear Distress Ink on a non-stick craft sheet and mist with water. Press the tag into the ink. Let dry.

Repeat until you are happy with the look. I added ink at least two more times after taking this photo. Finally, use Distress Oxide Ink as the last layer, but only in a few places. I used Mermaid Lagoon and Twisted Citron (but forgot to take a photo of that step).

I used a mix of organza and Wrinkled Faux Silk Ribbon to tie the tag. The latter was dyed with Distress Ink.

Here you can see the effect of all those layers of ink, with the final layer being Distress Oxide Mermaid Lagoon. 

Since I embossed the flower one extra time with clear ink and powder, they are very shiny and stand out from the background.

Here the clear ink stamping was accidentally placed a bit to the left, but that created a cool layered effect instead.

This is such a great sentiment! I added some Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide ink also in the green areas, so that the green and the blue part of the tag would connect better, and to add texture.

Add Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Peachy Gems to the tag.

Join us this week in our Make a Background 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

Supplies:

* Please note: the links are affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you.