A shiny sunflower tag and a sneaky peek!

 

Hi There! Like many of you I loved the look of the dylusions shimmer paints that Bev and Sam showcased in their facebook lives this week and had to have them! Mine arrived on Friday, so I decided I would use them on a tag for this week's blog post. 

This is what I used:

Size 8 Tag

Dylusions shimmer paints in Calypso Teal, Pure Sunshine and Fresh Lime

Regular Doodle Art Sunflower stamp set

Small Words

Archival black ink (You could use memento black)

Versafine black ink 

Memento ink (I used olive grove and bahama blue)

Watercolour card

Ecoline pens

Collage medium

gelly roll pens

glossy accents

Versamark ink

white embossing powder

black card

Here is how I made it. First I painted the tag using the shimmer paint. I mopped up the paint on my glass mat with another piece of card that will make a great background for another card too. 

Once the paint was dry, I stamped the sunflower in Archival ink  (I could have used memento) onto the painted surface, then stamped the sunflower again onto the watercolour card. Both archival and Versafine would be fine for the watercolour card.

I coloured the sunflower on the watercolour card with my ecoline pens.

Next I used memento ink to stamp a border and some spots around the sunflower on the painted tag. 

I cut out the coloured sunflower and stuck it to the painted tag using collage medium.

Next I added a few extra highlights with gelly roll pens and a white pen. I also stamped the little leaf 4 times in black where the border  joins were, and coloured with the green gelly roll pen.

I added some spots of glossy accents on the centre of the sunflower. 

Whilst this dried, I stamped the sentiment in versamark ink, then heat embossed in white onto a scrap of black card.

Finally I added the sentiment and some matching braid to the tag, matting it onto more black card. 

I hope you will be able to tune in to The Craft Store tomorrow at 1pm as Bev and Sam will be there with some brand new stamps, dies and inkables, as well as fab mdf basics and popouts. Here is a little sneaky peek at one of my samples! I will be sharing them all next week.

Thanks for looking! I will be back tomorrow with my Digi from Dora and some photos x